Principal Quality Engineer

We are seeking a Principal Quality Engineer to design and lead automated testing efforts for the products FreedomPay offers. This is a full-time salaried position. You will join a team of world-class engineers solving complex problems, building new product lines, and expanding existing products and services. You will be expected to bring creativity, innovation, and technical leadership to the role. The primary objective of this position is to evolve the test automation strategy, architecture, and tooling for the platforms, SDKs, APIs, and applications that power millions, and potentially billions, of payment transactions. You will work across multiple products, including mobile applications, payment terminal hardware, and middleware, while mentoring engineers and championing quality practices across the organization. Essential Functions Design, architect, and build scalable automated test frameworks and suites (unit, integration, API, UI, end-to-end, and regression) for FreedomPay products. Define and drive the test automation strategy, standards, and roadmap across engineering teams. Leverage AI-enabled tools to accelerate testing and reduce time-to-market. Analyze product requirements and designs to create test plans, test cases, and automation coverage that reflect risk, particularly for payment, security, and compliance workflows. Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines with quality gates, reporting, and code coverage metrics. Develop test tooling, simulators, an