Principal QA Engineer – Platform Experience

At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market. What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture. Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform. Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small. Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together! Team Description Join the Platform Experience team, a core group within our GPTO Engineering organization, where you will report to the Director of Engineering. Our team is on a mission to provide the unshakeable foundation of trust, security, and scale for the entire Anaplan ecosystem. We empower our internal developers and external partners to build with speed and confidence. Your Impact Lead the technical vision and execution for quality assurance across our Platform Experience, spanning Product Security, Platform Management, and Data Integration. Architect, design, and build the next generation of highly available, secure, and scalable testing frameworks and strategies that ensure the robustness and reliability of our platform's backbone services. Collaborate with architects and Product Partners to align quality assurance implementation patterns with long-term direction, applying a product mindset to ensure platform quality solutions meet business and customer needs. Set the standard for QA engineering excellence through hands-on leadership in test automation architecture, insightful quality design, and strategic guidance across our backend technology stack (Java, Kotlin, Go, .NET). Mentor QA engineers and software engineers across teams through test design input, automation framework reviews, and best practice sharing for quality. Champion innovation in performance testing, security testing, tooling, and overall platform quality features. Drive technical planning for quality initiatives, shape our long-term quality strategy, and lead critical incident retrospectives from a quality perspective to ensure continuous improvement. Your Qualifications A seasoned QA professional with 12+ years of experience building, testing, and scaling complex platform, infrastructure, or data-centric systems. Deep, hands-on expertise in designing, developing, and implementing advanced test automation frameworks for modern back-end applications (Java/J2EE, Kotlin, Go, .NET) and distributed systems using RESTful APIs and event-driven patterns. Extensive experience with K8s, public and private cloud; multi-region, multi-tenant topologies from a quality assurance perspective. Proven experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and high-velocity release workflows, with a strong focus on integrating and automating quality gates throughout the pipeline. Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills, with a track record of influencing engineering and product strategy to embed quality practices at every stage. Preferred Skills Proven experience influencing architecture and platform quality strategy. Passion for technical mentorship and elevating engineering and QA culture. Experience scaling quality efforts under high throughput demands and complex system interactions. Ability to drive sustainable quality delivery without sacrificing engineering velocity. • • Comfortable navigating globally distributed teams and asynchronous collaboration in a senior quality leadership role. Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. 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