QA Automation Architect

Responsible for designing and defining QA environments, methodologies and metrics within a system.

A variety of soft skills and experience may be required for the following role Please ensure you check the overview below carefully.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to strategize and align long-term solutions for test automation including roadmap, tools, framework, and approach.
• Develop and support automation strategy to support regression testing based on technical analysis, complexity, and reusability, ensuring its success, adoption, and continual utilization.
• Provide continuous test automation research recommendations or review of new tools, technology, techniques, and methodologies needed to enhance productivity and quality.
• Provide technical leadership, prepare and deliver presentations, and represent QA for executives and internal or external stakeholders.
• Lead Test Automation QA Engineers providing the necessary governance and coaching for quality solutions.
• Act as the business liaison for large-complex testing engagements and projects or product lines.
• Design and define optimal QA environments, methodologies, and metrics within a system.
• Cultivate and disseminate knowledge and drive consistency of quality assurance and architectural best practices.
• Build proof of concepts, test and automation frameworks, tool analysis, and methodology for QA processes and test validation ensuring its adoption and continued utilization across teams.
• Routinely analyze, audit, identify and deliver business plans and reporting surrounding QA metrics, risk assessment, and mitigation, trending, cost-benefit analysis, for aligned products and projects.
• Continually monitor and measure the adherence to quality processes and procedures, including test automation library maintenance and coverage.
• Work with cross-functional teams to improve the quality of the software delivered. Make recommendations for application and test automation procedure improvements.
• Provide oversight and evaluate and perform manual / automated functional, regression, and integrated testing against new or modified software programs and procedures used to verify that programs function according to requirements and conform to establishment guidelines.
• Write, revise, review team QA Automation Engineers, and verify test plans and test procedures for program defect identification, environment needs, and product feature evaluations.
• Provide team governance, and evaluate, generate, execute, and maintain a full active test library, with limited redundancy, with test scenarios to ensure requirements coverage and regression coverage with positive and negative testing in accordance with set processes, procedures, and methodology.
• Participate on behalf of the team and / or as an individual contributor in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, usability, or testing implications.
• Identify, report, and track product defects as well as address the need for additional product functionality in a clear and concise form.
• Prepare and / or Review End User, tools, and technical documentation generated for accuracy, completeness, and overall quality.
• Propose recommendations and adjustments to project delivery, estimations, and related solutions throughout the life of the project for on-time delivery against stated schedules.
• Direct large-scale, complex QA streams and projects; often involving multiple internal and external components and matrix partners.
• This position may require availability outside of standard business hours as part of a rotational on-call schedule.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience performing automated software testing and quality assurance and overseeing the design, development, and implementation of quality assurance standards for software testing.
• At least 3 years of direct experience as a lead test engineer for a major application integration and / or product release.
• Extensive experience with automated test tools.
• Solid understanding of DevOps, CI / CD pipeline, and source control solutions.
• Ability to identify and resolve automation critical issues with ease ensuring repeatability, maintainability, and scalability.
• Requires a general understanding of business operations, business terminology, and business communications.
• Experience with full lifecycle development and quality assurance using varying methodologies.
• Experience with structured delivery processes.
• Able to comprehend, perform project planning and execution, and mentor others while delivering on large, complex QA initiatives with no assistance and review.
• Strong understanding of technology and continued research of emerging technology, methodology, automation tools, software quality assurance standards, and practices with a natural inquisitiveness.
• Strong written and verbal communication with active listening skills and probing skills with the ability to interact with a wide variety of technical, non-technical, and executive personnel via matrix navigation.
• Ability to logically identify issues using a level of abstraction and troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills and prediction where necessary in identifying defects, test coverage, and gaps in requirements.
• Must be able to read and interpret business requirements and read / write / identify test specifications, test plans, and test scenarios.
• Must be able to demonstrate individual and team-work effort in collaborative processes while meeting set deadlines.
• Strong written and detail-oriented skills to effectively produce quality test cases and related test and release documentation with a high level of coverage.
• Demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional team dependencies to successful completion.
• Ability to identify where supporting documentation is required and produce testing process and procedural documentation and training to support the education of others.
• Continually promote a positive work environment, seeking solutions to roadblocks across the matrix.
• Influential and focused member of the team promoting the bigger picture and driving factors for software testing and delivery.
• Propose QA strategies and continual process review.
• Must demonstrate a metric-driven approach with proven success for all facets of the test cycle.
• Ability to work under pressure with shifting and demanding priorities while maintaining focus and composure.

Preferred

• Experience in working with web-based, pc-based, and mobile applications built with Java, .NET, web technologies, and Linux utilizing varying databases for data storage and retrieval.
• Experience in working with multiple test automation tools, frameworks, and / or software with the ability to speak to.
• Selenium or test automation scripting tool equivalent.
• Ability to interpret and apply scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript) used by the test automation tool.
• Familiarity with Node.js, web object identification (e.g. XPath).

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