Principal Test Engineer

Location: Yerevan, Armenia; fully remote

Company

hirify.global develops software products and provides a collaborative environment focused on software quality, professional development, and flexible work.

What you will do

• Own and influence test strategies, plans, estimates, coverage approaches, and risk assessments for complex products, major features, and cross-functional projects.
• Lead functional, integration, system, regression, exploratory, and non-functional testing throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Drive the development, maintenance, reporting, and improvement of automated regression testing, including the use and validation of AI-assisted development tools.
• Evaluate coverage, communicate quality risks and release-readiness recommendations, and participate in requirements and design reviews.
• Investigate, reproduce, troubleshoot, and isolate complex, intermittent, and environment-specific defects while supporting triage, root-cause analysis, prioritization, and resolution.
• Provide technical direction to testers, establish testing standards and documentation, mentor less-experienced testers, and act as a subject matter expert for assigned products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Typically 10 or more years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, test engineering, or a related discipline.
• Significant experience developing and implementing test strategies for complex software products, independently identifying quality risks, determining coverage, and making testing recommendations.
• Advanced experience with functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and non-functional testing.
• Strong experience investigating, reproducing, and isolating complex and intermittent software defects.
• Advanced knowledge of test automation principles, frameworks, tools, and design patterns, including developing, maintaining, and reporting on automated regression tests.
• Expert knowledge of an assigned product or product line, or the ability to develop that expertise quickly.
• Expert knowledge of at least one relevant scripting or programming language and strong working knowledge of at least one additional scripting or programming language.
• Strong knowledge of software development and testing processes, methodologies, and best practices; experience with test management, defect tracking, and documentation tools.
• Strong technical knowledge of relevant platforms and technologies, which may include Windows, Linux, IBM i, SQL, APIs, databases, or web services.
• Ability to lead technical work and influence decisions without formal management authority, communicate complex technical risks to technical and non-technical audiences, work independently, manage competing priorities, and collaborate across Development, Product Management, Support, and other teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with a fully remote work arrangement from Yerevan, Armenia.
• Competitive benefits and salaries.
• Personal and professional development opportunities.
• Flexible working environment and a collaborative culture focused on helping colleagues succeed.