Principal QA Engineer

At Anaplan we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.

What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers success and to our Winning Culture.

Our customers rank among the whos who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola LinkedIn Adobe LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2400 global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.

Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas we behave like leaders regardless of title we are committed to achieving ambitious goals and we love celebrating our wins big and small.

Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led values-based and disciplined in execution youll be inspired connected developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and lets build whats next - together!

Team Description

Were looking for a Principal Engineer to own and define the testing strategies on our data pipeline platform an interactive canvas-based tool that lets customers visually design complex data processing workflows with built-in governance quality rules and anomaly detection.

While still hands-on your primary focus will be acting as the quality leader for the team. Youll work with Product and Engineering to set the quality bar guiding the effort to explore probe and question the product to find the gaps that others miss.

Your Impact

• Own and define exploratory testing across the platform establishing the processes and runbooks used to identify critical edge cases and user journeys.
• Act as the primary QA partner to Product and Engineeringtranslating requirements into test strategies and ensuring alignment on quality expectations before development begins.
• Work side-by-side with engineersas a technical leader youre an embedded partner who acts as the escalation point to move critical issues forward.
• Lead the prioritisation of defectsbased on customer impact and business risk ensuring the team makes the right trade-offs
• Oversee and guide our offshore QA teamon system integration testing and performance testing ensuring their efforts align with the overall quality strategy.
• Define and refine non-functional requirements (NFRs) to guide performance and reliability efforts
• Champion quality thinking across the team helping everyone build better software not just catching mistakes

Your Skills

• Extensive background in manual testing with a focus on exploratory and stress testing.
• Experience defining test strategiesfor complex products not just executing them.
• Strong communication skills you can articulate issues clearly written and verbal to engineers Product and leadership
• Proven ability toprovide technical leadership and act as an escalation pointwithin agile engineering teams.
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Jira or similar)
• Comfortable defining and working with NFRs for performance scalability and reliability

Desirable

• You think like a user and a detective curious sceptical and thorough
• Youve worked on data-heavy or workflow-based products before
• Some automation experience (Selenium Playwright or similar) not essential but a bonus
• Youve helped shape QA practices and culture not just executed test plans

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