Distinguished Quality Engineering Lead
Pittsburgh, PA
Category: Delivery Leader
Industry: Financial Services
Reference ID: JN -012026-105106
Date Posted: 01/20/2026
Shortcut: http://careers.eliassen.com/JU1uhd
Description:
Hybrid 4 days a week onsite in Pittsburgh, PA
Our client is a global investments company that provides investment management and investment services to institutions, corporations, and individual investors worldwide. The organization supports the full investment lifecycle and serves as a single point of contact for clients seeking to create, trade, hold, manage, service, distribute, or restructure investments.
This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $80.00 to $98.00/hr. w2
Responsibilities:
Responsibilities
- Lead strategy and execution for modernization of legacy test scripts, frameworks, and tool chains.
- Define and govern standards, metrics, policies, procedures, and templates across platforms with platform-specific adaptations.
- Drive the transition from a centralized QE model to a federated, product-oriented structure.
- Embed quality engineering practices within product teams and promote a full stack engineering model.
- Establish and lead specialist work streams for automation, test data management, tool chain, metrics, and non-functional testing.
- Provide sprint-based expert support to platform teams, enabling targeted uplift without long-term dependency.
- Integrate AI agents for quality tasks including test strategy generation and prompt engineering.
- Implement risk-based testing focused on high-probability defect areas and critical user journeys.
- Define and track qualitative and quantitative metrics for automation maturity, performance, and platform behavior.
- Select, implement, and evolve tooling and methodologies aligned with engineering and platform needs.
- Mentor engineers across teams to ensure cross-training and lifecycle capability.
Experience Requirements:
Experience Requirements
- 10 to 15 years in QA, QE, or Automation Engineering with evidence of similar leadership roles.
- Hands-on expertise in automation frameworks and modernization of legacy scripts.
- Proficiency with Java and Python for test and tooling development.
- Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD integration for quality automation.
- Background in cloud computing and platform engineering.
- Experience establishing tool chains, governance, and organization-wide standards.
- Demonstrated capability in test data management and non-functional testing domains.
- Experience integrating AI into quality processes, including agents and prompt engineering.
- Proven execution of risk-based, metrics-driven testing strategies.
- Ability to lead specialist work streams and provide short-term, sprint-based expert support.
Education Requirements:
Education Requirements
- Experience and technical skills are prioritized over formal education.
W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.
Please be advised- If anyone reaches out to you about an open position connected with Eliassen Group, please confirm that they have an Eliassen.com email address and never provide personal or financial information to anyone who is not clearly associated with Eliassen Group. If you have any indication of fraudulent activity, please contact InfoSec@eliassen.com.
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