Principal Software Engineer

Job Description:

The Role

Fidelity Investments is looking for a Principal Software Engineer in Test who is passionate about cutting edge technologies, frameworks, and design patterns. You will be joining a team of engineers focused on engineering testing solutions for the Fidelity Insurance Agency (FIA) product area. You will apply your strong software development and test automation skills to design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve Fidelity investments software solutions. You will also be supporting your team in adopting best practices to ensure we are building the right product and we are building it right. Overall, you will have an appetite for learning, evaluating, and recommending new technologies. Software Engineers at Fidelity Investments pride themselves on their experience, leadership, and ability to establish relationships across teams.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

• 12 + years experience with a Bachelor's or 6 + years experience with a Master's degree in Computer Science (or closely related field)
• Experience in designing and implementing robust QA strategies and test frameworks for API, Web with deep expertise in end-to-end validation
• Experience in test automation (Playwright/Cypress, Selenium, Rest Assured, JUnit, ,,Test NG, Maven, ETL Batch)
• Experience with DevOps/Pipelines (Jenkins Core, LWC, Monorepo, etc.)
• Experience with source control (GitHub, Stash (Bitbucket), Sourcetree)
• Cloud experience preferred - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Top skills needed: Front end, Playwright, Xray, chaos, Splunk, Datadog, node.js, Java, Java Script, Jenkins core
• Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting automation test platforms
• Minimum 6 years of experience with architecting and implementing development pipelines (CI / CD)
• Good understanding of accessibility features and building and testing accessible experiences on Web
• Focus on the deployment automation and orchestration
• Assist with code branches, merges, builds pipelines, manage versioning etc.
• Use your knowledge of testing and testability to influence better software design, promote proper software engineering and bug prevention strategies, testability and security
• Actively participate in the development process through writing and maintain application features and automated tests including unit tests, component tests, integration tests, functional tests, performance tests, scenario tests and interoperability tests
• Collaborate with team members on improving team's test coverage, release velocity and production health
• Good understanding on write SQL queries and implementing the data seeding for automation.
• Good to have AWS certification and experience

The Team

The Engineering Excellence (EE) chapter resides in the Wealth business unit of Fidelity Investments. The EE chapter's support spans across all of Wealth and provides domain specialists to squads who develop products with the highest customer quality, security, stability, and experience. The chapter is made up of multi-stacked engineers with a passion around customer experience and with the engineering tool set to seek challenges including automated testing, performance testing, chaos testing, application cloud migration and management, CI / CD implementation, security testing, and application development.

Certifications:

Category:

Information Technology

Most roles at Fidelity are Hybrid, requiring associates to work onsite every other week (all business days, M-F) in a Fidelity office. This does not apply to Remote or fully Onsite roles.

Please be advised that Fidelity's business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.

Client-provided location(s): Westlake, TX

Job ID: Fidelity-2118120

Employment Type: OTHER

Posted: 2026-01-10T18:46:15