This is a remote position.
Principal Quality Automation ArchitectKey Responsibilities
Reporting to Manager, Quality Engineering & AI Validation, designs and scales Accordion's automated quality framework across products, services, and AI-enabled workflows. Owns the architecture behind automated validation, test harnesses, evaluation pipelines, test data strategy, and cross-pod tooling standards.
Key ResponsibilitiesAutomation Architecture- Design and implement the core automation framework for functional, API, integration, regression, and workflow testing.
- Define standards for reusable test assets, environment usage, data setup, and evidence capture.
- Create scalable approaches to testing complex, multi-system workflows.
AI Evaluation Infrastructure
- Build and maintain regression harnesses for AI-enabled features, including prompt and workflow comparisons, scored evaluation runs, and benchmark execution.
- Partner with AI quality analysts to support rubric-based testing and measurable release criteria.
Test Data & Environment Strategy
- Define approaches for test data, synthetic data, masked data, and scenario generation.
- Improve reliability and repeatability of validation environments.
Engineering Partnership
- Work closely with software engineers to improve testability, observability, CI/CD integration, and defect prevention.
- Help pods move quality checks earlier in the development lifecycle.
Requirements
Required Qualifications- 7+ years of experience in QA automation, SDET, or quality engineering roles.
- Strong experience with test automation frameworks, API testing, CI/CD, and integration validation.
·Strong scripting or coding skills.
- Experience working with data-intensive or workflow-heavy applications.
- Exposure to AI or LLM validation tooling or strong interest in building in that space.
- Ability to design frameworks, not just individual tests.
·Bachelor's degree preferred.
Key Traits for Success
·Systems-minded and deeply technical.
- Focused on scale, repeatability, and leverage.
- Comfortable setting standards others adopt.
- Practical about balancing sophistication with delivery pace.
Benefits
Base salary plus performance-based bonus.Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor, and internal equity.
- Design and implement the core automation framework for functional, API, integration, regression, and workflow testing.
- Define standards for reusable test assets, environment usage, data setup, and evidence capture.
- Create scalable approaches to testing complex, multi-system workflows.
AI Evaluation Infrastructure
- Build and maintain regression harnesses for AI-enabled features, including prompt and workflow comparisons, scored evaluation runs, and benchmark execution.
- Partner with AI quality analysts to support rubric-based testing and measurable release criteria.
Test Data & Environment Strategy
- Define approaches for test data, synthetic data, masked data, and scenario generation.
- Improve reliability and repeatability of validation environments.
Engineering Partnership
- Work closely with software engineers to improve testability, observability, CI/CD integration, and defect prevention.
- Help pods move quality checks earlier in the development lifecycle.
Requirements
Required Qualifications- 7+ years of experience in QA automation, SDET, or quality engineering roles.
- Strong experience with test automation frameworks, API testing, CI/CD, and integration validation.
·Strong scripting or coding skills.
- Experience working with data-intensive or workflow-heavy applications.
- Exposure to AI or LLM validation tooling or strong interest in building in that space.
- Ability to design frameworks, not just individual tests.
·Bachelor's degree preferred.
Key Traits for Success
·Systems-minded and deeply technical.
- Focused on scale, repeatability, and leverage.
- Comfortable setting standards others adopt.
- Practical about balancing sophistication with delivery pace.
Benefits
Base salary plus performance-based bonus.
Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor, and internal equity.