Principal Consultant - QA

About Ellucian

Ellucian is a global market leader in education technology. We power innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,800 customers across 50 countries and serving over 20 million students. Ellucians AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, from student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucians innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners, and user community of more than 45,000 provide best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Values Rooted in Purpose

We embrace the power to lead, the courage to innovate, and the determination to grow. At our core, we believe in humanizing our approach, recognizing that our people are our greatest strength. With a shared vision of transformation, we endeavor to shape a brighter future for higher education.

About The Opportunity

Technology is in the forefront enabling our Higher Education customers to reap the benefits while they transform their campuses with modern solutions and capabilities with a unique goal of Student Success. Our Professional Services organization is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior QA Consultant who will be working with a team of experienced analysts, architects, developers, and business resources to manage high-performance enterprise-level solutions. This means you will have a passion and desire to learn new things and would be part of consultant team driving innovation for our new capabilities. We are looking for people who will challenge the norm, that want to take accountability for their own path, but will come together as a team to enable and delight our customers. Working in an agile environment, we encourage regular meetings where people can share their ideas and thoughts.

Where you will make an impact

Technical Contribution

• Shape organizational and industry best practices in automation, performance engineering, and quality governance.
• Define long-term automation and testing roadmaps, introducing innovation in AI-driven quality engineering.
• Champion enterprise adoption of observability and resilience testing as part of modern engineering practices.
  
  

• Lead creation of centers of excellence for quality engineering across geographies.
• Build communities of practice that share knowledge, frameworks, and reusable assets.
• Set global delivery standards that elevate quality engineering maturity at the organizational level.
  
  

• Serve as a trusted advisor to C-level executives on enterprise transformation strategies for quality.
• Represent the organization in conferences, publications, and industry panels.
• Drive strategic partnerships with key clients to influence multi-year transformation journeys.
  
  

• 13+ years of experience leading enterprise quality engineering and automation initiatives.
• Recognized thought leader in testing strategy, automation, and quality transformation.
• Deep expertise across CI/CD, cloud platforms, AI/ML-driven testing, and observability practices.
• Track record of advising and influencing at the C-suite level.
• Ability to represent the company at global industry events and build long-term client relationships.
  
  

• 22 days annual leave plus 11 public holidays
• Competitive gratuity policy
• Group insurance and Annual health checkup plan with a variety of family and wellness benefits.
• Thrive Flex Lifestyle Account (LSA) that allows you to contribute towards your health, financial or learning interests
• 5 charitable days to support the community that supports us
• Wellness
• Headspace (mental health)
• Wellbeats (virtual fitness classes)
• RethinkCare - caregiver support
• Diversity and inclusion programs that promote employee resource groups such as: Buzzinga and Lean In Team to name a few.
• Parental leave
• Employee referral bonuses to encourage the addition of great new people to the team
• We Foster a learning culture with:
• Education Assistance Program
• Professional development opportunities