Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Title: Principal Quality Assurance Engineer

Deltek is seeking a Principal Quality Assurance Engineer who brings deep ERP and accounting domain expertise to ensure the correctness, reliability, and real-world fidelity of our Startpoint platform. This is not a traditional testing role - the primary value is domain authority, not test execution. You will act as the customer proxy, owning end-to-end correctness of the ERP system and elevating quality thinking across the entire engineering organization.

The ideal candidate thinks like a real user navigating complex accounting workflows, surfaces issues that engineering wouldnt anticipate, and partners with Product and Engineering as a domain authority who can validate that the system behaves correctly for real-world ERP scenarios.

If you have a deep background in accounting or ERP systems, can reason across full business workflows, and want to own quality from first principles rather than execute scripts, we invite you to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end correctness of ERP workflows in Startpoint - from data entry to financial output - ensuring GAAP compliance and real-world fidelity.
• Act as the domain authority and customer proxy, validating complex ERP scenarios that go beyond feature behavior: purchase order variations, billing workflows, payroll runs, multi-entity financials.
• Identify gaps between specification and reality, feeding actionable improvements back to Product and Engineering.
• Evaluate full-flow scenarios - not just UI or API behavior - including dataset correctness, cross-feature interactions, and data migration fidelity.
• Serve as the quality catalyst for the team: raise the bar on quality thinking, help level up engineers and testers, and define what good looks like for ERP correctness.
• Build and maintain a deep knowledge base of system behavior that can evolve into support readiness and product validation authority.
• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineers, and QE leads to define quality requirements grounded in real customer usage patterns and ensure they are consistently met.
• Analyze defect trends, patterns, and root causes to identify systemic quality issues and drive improvements across the product.
• Analyze fleet usage data to pinpoint future investment opportunities. ","

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