Principal Quality Engineer

Join Dealpath, a fast-paced growth-stage startup, as a Principal Quality Engineer. In this hands-on role, you will drive the transformation of our software quality approach, moving from a centralized manual QA team to a model where delivery teams own quality end-to-end. You will set the technical direction for quality across the engineering organization, build and own the AI evals practice, and coach and grow embedded Quality Engineers. This is a high-impact senior individual contributor role that requires deep technical expertise and the ability to influence without authority.

• Conduire la transformation de l'approche de qualité logicielle de l'entreprise, en passant d'une équipe QA manuelle centralisée à un modèle où les équipes de livraison possèdent la qualité de bout en bout.
• Établir la direction technique pour la qualité au sein de l'organisation d'ingénierie de Dealpath, en définissant la stratégie de test, les seuils de couverture, les critères de publication et les choix d'outils.
• Construire et posséder la pratique d'évaluation de l'IA de Dealpath, en créant l'infrastructure, les métriques et les cadres de régression qui garantissent que les fonctionnalités du produit répondent à des normes de qualité rigoureuses.
• Bringing deep technical expertise with 7+ years in Quality Engineering or SDET roles, with significant hands-on automation experience in modern SaaS environments
• Fluent in AI-assisted development. You use tools like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar regularly in your own work, apply a deliberate review process before relying on AI output, and are ready to help engineers and QEs on your team develop the same habits
• Experienced with blameless postmortems and structured RCA practices (5 Whys, Fishbone, CAPA, or equivalent)
• An excellent communicator, able to work cross-functionally with Engineering, Product, Design, and Customer Success
• A hands-on coder — you write automation frameworks, build shared libraries, and pair with engineers on test design every day
• Skilled in building evals for LLM-based or agentic features, with familiarity in at least one eval framework (LangSmith, Braintrust, DeepEval, or equivalent)
• Experienced in driving quality practice across multiple teams without direct authority, with impact that comes from technical credibility and influence
• Excited to work in a fast-paced, growth-stage startup environment where your decisions shape the entire engineering culture
• Strong in modern automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) and at least one programming language used in modern SaaS engineering (TypeScript, Python, Go)
• Comfortable with observability and product analytics platforms (Sentry, Datadog, Pendo, Amplitude) and using them to drive testing strategy
• Consistent, hands-on experience with AI coding tools (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude, or similar). Uses AI regularly, validates output before shipping, and can coach engineers to build the same disciplined habits
• Hands-on experience building evals for LLM-based or agentic features
• 7+ years in Quality Engineering, SDET, or equivalent software engineering roles with a quality focus
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to balance technical depth and systemic quality improvement
• Deep proficiency in at least one modern automation framework (Playwright, Cypress, or similar)
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience
• Track record of delivering quality programs for enterprise SaaS products, ideally in B2B, FinTech, or PropTech
• Proven track record driving quality transformation in a startup or growth-stage SaaS environment