Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Full Time Texas

4 days ago Requisition

Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer

United States (Remote)

About us

Advanced Solutions International is a global software company focused on helping not-for-profits and membership organizations grow revenue, reduce expenses, improve performance, engage and serve members and donors through innovative software solutions. Our portfolio of solutions also includes the iMIS Engagement Management System, Top Class LMS, and the Clowder mobile app. Together, we help our clients achieve great things.

About our position
The Principal Software Quality Assurance Engineer (Principal SQAE) is the most senior individual contributor in the quality function and a specialist capability shared across every delivery stream. Partnering with the Quality & Security Manager, the Principal SQAE sets test and automation strategy, raises the quality standard across the portfolio, takes the named quality-owner seat on the highest-risk specifications, and drives the analysis that pushes the escaped-defect rate down quarter over quarter.

The role leads through standards, architecture, and mentorship rather than through people management.

What you’ll be doing

• Setting test and automation strategy. Partnering with the Manager of Quality, defining the test strategy, automation architecture, coverage standards, and tooling direction that every delivery stream draws on.
• Owning the hardest specifications. Taking the named quality-owner seat on the highest-risk and most complex specifications, from refinement through release.
• Raising the standard across the portfolio. Establishing and evolving testing patterns, reviewing practices, and quality gates so that what one spec teaches travels to the next, and quality scales beyond headcount.
• Shaping the shared automation approach with the Test Automation team. Partnering with the Test Automation team, which owns and maintains the shared automation framework and platform, to set its coverage strategy and design direction so it serves every stream. Bringing strong scripting skills to the hardest end-to-end workflows, authoring automated tests in standard UI and API tools, and helping establish the patterns the wider quality function follows.
• Validating the data and integration layers. Authoring advanced SQL to validate data integrity, asynchronous transactional processing, and reporting layers, and validating open API integrations and third‑party web extensions for secure and performant behavior at the boundary.
• Leading escaped‑defect analysis. Owning portfolio‑level root‑cause analysis, spotting systemic patterns across streams, and converting them into upstream prevention.
• Strengthening the release‑readiness decision. Bringing the deepest risk assessment to the independent release call and helping harden the regression and release‑readiness gate.
• Mentoring senior and junior staff. Coaching senior quality engineers and growing the craft across the function, modeling testing judgment and technical rigor.
• Championing a shift‑left testing culture. Partnering with product, developers, Dev Ops, and architecture to make quality a first concern at refinement, shaping testable acceptance criteria and preventing defects before build rather than inspecting for them after.
• Performing other job‑related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

What we want you to have

• BS/BA in a relevant field or equivalent practical experience; advanced degree a plus.
• 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance or quality engineering, preferably on enterprise‑level applications, including at least 3 years at a principal or lead level and a track record of setting quality or automation strategy.
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