Principal/Staff Test Consultant - SIT, UAT, Azure DevOps, APIs & Playwright - Afternoon Shift

Company Overview 10Pearls is a global, purpose-driven AI-Native digital engineering partner helping businesses re-imagine, ‎digitalize, and accelerate. As an end-to-end digital technology partner, 10Pearls helps businesses create future-proof, ‎transformative ‎digital products that leverage emerging technologies. ‎10Pearls' clients ‎include Global 2000 enterprises, high growth mid-size ‎businesses, and some of the most exciting ‎start-ups from industries like healthcare, fintech, ‎energy, education, ‎real estate, retail, and hi-tech. ‎Headquartered in the Washington DC metro area, 10Pearls has product engineering and ‎software development centers in North America, Latin America, Europe, and South Asia. To learn more, visit https://10pearls.com .

Role 10Pearls is seeking a Principal/Staff Test Consultant - Lead Tester to drive testing activities across a large-scale integration program. This role is ideal for a senior testing professional with strong experience in SIT, UAT, integration testing, and stakeholder management. You will be responsible for defining the testing strategy, ensuring environment readiness, leading end-to-end and regression testing efforts, and coordinating across IT teams, suppliers, and business stakeholders to deliver high-quality outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the SIT and UAT testing approach, scope, timelines, and success criteria
• Establish testing governance, roles, responsibilities, and integration testing plans across multiple workstreams
• Create and maintain test artefacts in alignment with program and client standards
• Ensure test environments, integrations, and products are ready for UAT execution
• Lead end-to-end, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing activities
• Drive defect triage, management, and resolution across internal teams and external suppliers
• Support the implementation and maintenance of automated regression testing using Playwright
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define and validate UAT requirements and acceptance criteria
• Conduct error handling, security (RBAC), compliance, monitoring, alerting, and UX-related testing activities
• Coordinate testing activities across multiple teams within an Agile delivery environment
• Provide testing insights, risk assessments, and recommendations throughout the delivery lifecycle

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or test leadership roles
• Strong experience leading SIT, UAT, integration, and regression testing initiatives
• Hands-on experience with both manual and automation testing methodologies
• Experience testing integrations across multiple applications, platforms, and services
• Strong understanding of APIs, Azure Platform/Portal, Azure DevOps, and Logic Apps
• Experience with Playwright or similar automation testing frameworks
• Proven ability to manage multiple testing workstreams simultaneously
• Experience working within Agile or iterative delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage both technical and business teams
• Experience with defect management, test planning, test execution, and reporting
• Excellent communication, leadership, and coordination skills

Nice to Have

• Experience working on enterprise-scale transformation or integration programs
• Knowledge of security testing, RBAC controls, and compliance validation
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness testing
• Exposure to cloud-based integration architectures within Azure environments
• ISTQB certification or equivalent testing qualification
• Experience working with distributed teams and third-party vendors