Principal Quality Engineer

About the Technology Organizationu00A0

Technology at Lilly builds and maintains capabilities using pioneering technologies like most prominent tech companies. What differentiates Technology at Lilly is that we create new possibilities through tech to advance our purpose u2013 creating medicines that make life better for people around the world, like data driven drug discovery and connected clinical trials. We hire the best technology professionals from a variety of backgrounds, so they can bring an assortment of knowledge, skills, and diverse thinking to deliver solutions in every area of our business.u00A0

About the Business Functionu00A0

The Software Product Engineering (SPE) team is a specialised engineering group that delivers strategic solutions and differentiated capabilities. We take a forward-thinking approach, focusing on an enterprise platform and product mindset, ensuring that the solutions we build can be leveraged across Technology teams for broader impact and efficiency.u00A0

Within SPE, the Quality Engineering function ensures that every product meets the highest standards of performance, security, compliance, resilience, and user experience.u00A0

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer/Test Architectu00A0

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Role Summaryu00A0

As a Principal Quality Engineer and Test Architect, you will define and drive the overall test architecture strategy across enterprise platforms, microservices, and cloudu2011native applications. You will design scalable, maintainable, and futureu2011ready quality engineering frameworks, ensuring that testing is embedded into every stage of the software development lifecycle. You will partner with engineering leadership, product owners, and DevOps teams to establish bestu2011inu2011class practices for automation, performance, security, accessibility, and resilience testing u2014 while mentoring and guiding quality engineers across multiple teams.u00A0

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What Youu2019ll Be Doingu00A0

• Architect enterpriseu2011level test automation frameworks for backend services, APIs (REST) and frontend applications using Webdriver.IO, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright, and emerging tools.u00A0

• Define and enforce quality engineering standards, coding guidelines, and architectural patterns for test automation across multiple product lines.u00A0

• Lead contract testing strategy (e.g., Pact) to ensure API compatibility across microservices and external integrations.u00A0

• Design performance, scalability, and resilience testing frameworks for distributed systems, eventu2011driven architectures, and serverless workloads.u00A0

• Integrate security testing (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning) into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations (HIPAA, GDPR).u00A0

• Establish observability validation practices u2014 ensuring logs, metrics, and traces meet operational and troubleshooting needs.u00A0

• Drive chaos engineering initiatives (AWS Fault Injection Simulator, Gremlin) to validate fault tolerance and disaster recovery strategies.u00A0

• Oversee accessibility testing aligned with WCAG 2.1/2.2 standards, ARIA roles, and automated audits (axeu2011core).u00A0

• Collaborate with DevOps to embed continuous testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Docker, and AWS deployment workflows.u00A0

• Evaluate and introduce AIu2011assisted testing tools for intelligent test generation, defect prediction, and risku2011based testing.u00A0

• Mentor and coach quality engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.u00A0

• Advise product and engineering leadership on quality metrics, risk assessment, and release readiness.u00A0

• Champion shiftu2011left testing and testu2011driven development (TDD/BDD) across teams.u00A0

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How You Will Succeedu00A0

• Proven ability to design and implement enterpriseu2011scale test architectures.u00A0

• Deep understanding of microservices, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.u00A0

• Expertise in performance, security, resilience, and compliance testing in regulated environments.u00A0

• Strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to influence crossu2011functional teams.u00A0

• Strategic thinking with a focus on scalability, maintainability, and futureu2011proofing.u00A0

• Excellent communication skills for technical and executive audiences.u00A0

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What You Should Bringu00A0

• 10+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, with at least 3 years in a test architect or principal role.u00A0

• Experience influencing enterpriseu2011wide quality strategies.u00A0

• Mastery of automated testing tools (Webdriver.IO, Jest, React Testing Library, Cypress, Playwright) and frameworks for backend and frontend.u00A0

• Strong experience with backend services built on Node.js, Express.js, and PostgreSQL (Sequelize, Knex.js).u00A0

• Expertise in Core Web Vitals and app performance optimisation using Jmeter/Loadrunner/any other equivalent tool.u00A0

• Hands on experience in application evaluation AI tools like DeepEval, RAGAS.u00A0u00A0

• Expertise in cloud infrastructure testing (AWS preferred) and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).u00A0

• Bacheloru2019s or Masteru2019s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.u00A0

• Advanced knowledge of accessibility testing and WCAG standards.u00A0

• Experience with REST API testing and contract testing.u00A0

• Track record of leading quality engineering in regulated industries (Life Sciences a plus).u00A0

• Experience with responsive design testing and crossu2011browser compatibility validation.u00A0

• Contributions to openu2011source testing frameworks or QA communities.u00A0

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Preferred Qualificationsu00A0

• Experience with FeathersJS or similar serviceu2011layer frameworks.u00A0

• Knowledge of design system validation (Materialu2011UI, Ant Design).u00A0

• Exposure to Veeva QMS systems and its Quality processes.

• Familiarity with modern build tools (Webpack, Vite, Babel, ESLint) for test integration and static analysis.u00A0

• Advanced experience with chaos engineering and resilience validation.u00A0

• Deep familiarity with observability platforms (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).u00A0

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