3 days ago
Base Salary
$142k - $212k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own a risk-based enterprise test strategy spanning packaged enterprise applications, custom applications, data pipelines, and AI agents.
- Architect, standardize, and lead the Tricentis quality platform, including reusable libraries, governance, licensing, and roadmap decisions.
- Design and operate multi-agent test workflows that generate, execute, heal, triage, and report tests with approval controls and audit trails.
- Create evaluation and release-gating frameworks for AI agents, covering golden datasets, LLM-as-judge scoring, red teaming, safety, cost, and tool-call correctness.
- Integrate Tricentis and proprietary MCP servers with Claude, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Codex, and the enterprise AI gateway.
- Embed test impact analysis, quality gates, and release-risk scoring into CI/CD pipelines.
- Deliver audit-ready, GxP-compliant testing evidence in partnership with Quality & Regulatory.
- Lead and mentor QA and automation engineers, run design reviews, establish playbooks, and manage vendor and partner alignment.
- Own quality scorecards covering escape rate, automation coverage, cycle time, and cost per test.
Requirements
- 12+ years of software quality engineering experience and 5+ years leading strategy at lead, principal, or staff level across multiple teams.
- 5+ years of enterprise-scale Tricentis Tosca experience, with working knowledge of qTest and at least one of NeoLoad or SeaLights.
- Experience delivering test automation for packaged enterprise applications, preferably SAP S/4HANA or ECC and Salesforce.
- At least 1 year building or operating LLM-based or agentic testing in production.
- Strong coding ability in at least two of Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, or C#.
- Deep CI/CD experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or Jenkins, including quality gates.
- Experience testing regulated systems and producing audit-ready evidence, including GxP, medical device, SOX, or similar environments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong communication skills with engineers, product owners, and executives.
- Preferred qualifications include Tricentis, ISTQB, AWS, or Databricks certifications; published MCP servers, evaluation suites, or open-source test tooling; life sciences or medical-device experience; and SAP S/4HANA migration or RISE program testing experience.
Benefits
- San Diego, California location; the position is not remote and is marked hybrid.
- Estimated base salary range is $141,600–$212,400, with eligibility for variable cash programs and equity for eligible roles.
- Benefits include genomics sequencing access, family planning, health, dental and vision coverage, retirement benefits, and paid time off.
- Inclusive workplace with Employee Resource Groups and career-development opportunities.
Tech Stack
Apache JMeterApache KafkaAppiumAWSC#CypressDatabricksDatadogdbtDockerGitHub ActionsGrafanaGraphQLgRPCJavaJavaScriptJenkinsKubernetesMLflowPostmanpytestPythonSeleniumSplunkSQLTerraformTestNGTypeScript
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About Illumina
Illumina builds next-generation DNA sequencing systems, reagents/consumables, and bioinformatics software used by research, clinical, pharmaceutical, and agricultural genomics labs. Its business model combines sale of instruments with recurring consumables, sequencing services, and cloud analysis tools; the company was founded in 1998, is headquartered in San Diego, and trades on NASDAQ under the ticker ILMN.