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Quality Engineering Lead

Quality Engineering Lead

locationSmithfield, RI, USA
PublishedPublished: 11/11/2025
Full Time

Job Description:

Job Description: Quality Engineering Lead

The Role

As a Quality Engineering Lead, you will be an integral part of the Stock Plan Services (SPS) organization. You will ensure that projects meet quality standards by providing technical guidance in planning, designing, executing testing and developing procedures relating to product quality on complex projects. You’ll get the opportunity to develop your skills, collaborate across Fidelity teams and continue to learn in a fun, iterative, and constantly evolving environment.

  • Adhere to established software engineering best practices and standards.

  • Conduct peer code reviews and mentor junior associates.

  • Collaborate with other quality engineering resources to:

    • Suggest improvements for processes, best practices, and standards.

    • Design and develop automated tests and/or software tools.

  • Identify opportunities to improve maintainability of automation platform.

  • Understand and apply test driven design concepts to test and debug automated solutions and software utilities developed by self and others.

  • Deliver accurate and maintainable code for test automation and software utilities.

  • Responsible for Stakeholder Management including communicating to senior leaders in the domain area.

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

  • B.S. Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar technical field.

  • 10+ years of software development or hand-coded test automation development using Java or Javascript or similar language.

  • Proven technical skills (e.g. SQL, XML, HTML, JavaScript, Java, or Python)

  • Experience in testing distributed applications at multiple layers of the technology stack.

  • Knowledge of with Version Control Systems (Git, ClearCase etc.)

  • Proven experience of all facets of software development from design, coding and testing to deployment (hands on with Continuous Integration toolsets – Jenkins etc.)

  • Ability to perform technical and functional analysis.

  • Ability to quickly learn and apply new technical skills.

  • Experience in testing distributed applications at multiple layers of the technology stack.

  • Demonstrated experience in DevOps and CI/ CD pipelines.

  • Understand and apply test driven design concepts to test and debug automated solutions and software utilities developed by self and others.

  • Proven experience in Agile / Scrum methodology.

  • Hands on experience with crafting and maintaining testing frameworks like Junit, TestRunner, Selenium (TestNG), Playwright

  • Good understanding of web services testing and familiarity with Karate is preferred.

  • Highly collaborative individual with ability to influence others and build strong partner relationships internally, as well as externally.

  • Solid understanding of Quality Assurance fundamentals, best practices and demonstrated experience of leading large programs in matrixed environments.

  • Demonstrated experience gathering and presenting program metrics and status

The Team

We are a Quality Engineering focused organization with experience in all aspects of application delivery in an agile environment across global locations. Our associates play a key role on Scrum teams within Workplace Investing Stock Plan Services Technology. This role will support the Plan Sponsor Workstation and/or NetBenefits applications and its customer base.

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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.