Principal Software Engineer, Quality Engineering Platform
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External19 hours ago
Guadalajara, MexicoStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the browser-driven BDD execution platform, including runners, lifecycle hooks, step definitions, UI abstractions, browser infrastructure, test data, CI configuration, and observability.
- Improve Selenium WebDriver/Grid execution, browser and session lifecycle, synchronization, locators, assertions, cleanup, and failure recovery.
- Eliminate shared state, test-order dependence, data collisions, incomplete teardown, and environment contamination through isolation, idempotency, and deterministic cleanup.
- Profile and optimize discovery, setup, UI execution, teardown, evidence collection, queueing, scheduling, infrastructure waits, parallel efficiency, and long-tail behavior.
- Classify and eliminate flakiness by root cause while governing reruns and quarantine with transparent ownership and exit criteria.
- Extend browser-to-backend evidence and OpenTelemetry correlation so failures are diagnosable without manual reruns.
- Define risk-based CI policies for blocking, asynchronous, quarantined, and informational coverage.
- Direct agentic workers for test-gap analysis, scenario generation, failure clustering, flake investigation, performance analysis, refactoring, and browser-framework experiments.
- Establish first-year baselines and measurable improvements for execution time, queueing, parallel efficiency, flake, infrastructure failures, quarantine age, and diagnosis time.
Requirements
- Substantial software engineering, quality engineering, or test-platform experience with Staff or Principal-level influence and a recent hands-on record of changing framework or platform code.
- Deep hands-on expertise with Java or another JVM language, Cucumber/Gherkin, Selenium WebDriver, and Selenium Grid or comparable distributed browser infrastructure.
- Experience owning a large browser-driven BDD or end-to-end test estate with shared framework components, parallel execution, and multi-team adoption.
- Strong understanding of browser and test lifecycle design, asynchronous behavior, frames, synchronization, locators, assertions, state isolation, setup and cleanup, and deterministic test data.
- Experience profiling and improving execution performance, sharding, scheduling, queueing, tail latency, capacity, and infrastructure utilization.
- Strong experience with Maven, GitLab/Jenkins or equivalent CI platforms, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, environment orchestration, and pipeline-as-code.
- Practical observability expertise using OpenTelemetry or comparable traces, metrics, logs, dashboards, and correlated failure evidence.
- Experience directing AI coding or test-engineering agents through bounded tasks, context design, output review, repeated-run validation, and prevention of automation shortcuts.
- Preferred experience includes Playwright, WebDriver BiDi, browser-framework migration or coexistence, retail POS or payments, edge environments, statistical flake analysis, queueing optimization, service virtualization, seeded data, and Docker-orchestrated dependencies.
Benefits
- Direct employment by Toshiba with 100% payroll status.
- IMSS, INFONAVIT, December day voucher, and vacation voucher benefits.
- Life insurance and major medical expense coverage with dental and vision coverage for the employee and direct family members.
- Minor medical expense insurance.
- Employee savings fund capped at the legal limit.
- Grocery coupons.
- Pension plan.
- 12 vacation days plus 6 floating days.
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About Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions - External
Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions builds retail point-of-sale and self-checkout systems, software, and peripherals for supermarkets, big-box, and specialty retailers. It sells integrated hardware, retail operating systems and middleware, and field services that install, maintain, and repair in-store technologies. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, it serves global chains; customers cited in job postings include Walmart, Kroger, Costco, Carrefour, Boots, and The Gap.