QA Automation Architect
Location
United States
Posted
3 days ago
Salary
Not specified
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Job Description
Role Description
Seeking a QA/Test Automation Architect to define and scale our automation strategy across the organization. This role balances hands-on technical leadership (frameworks, libraries, pipelines) with strategic governance (tool selection, standards, best practices), ensuring that automated quality becomes an integral, measurable part of our software delivery lifecycle.
You will partner with Engineering, SRE/Platform, DevOps, Product, and Security to:
- Assess and prescribe automation tools based on product needs and architectural fit.
- Design and evolve multi-layer automation frameworks (UI, API, contract, performance, mobile).
- Establish coding standards, test design patterns, and reusable libraries at scale.
- Drive quality-as-code practices and CI/CD integration.
- Mentor engineers and enable squads with training, reference implementations, and playbooks.
Qualifications
- Designing large-scale test automation frameworks and libraries.
- Expertise with one or more core languages for automation: UFT, Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python; polyglot comfort is a plus.
- Proven experience with web UI automation (e.g., Playwright, WebDriver/Selenium), API testing (e.g., REST/GraphQL, contract testing with Pact/Playwright/Stoplight), and performance testing (e.g., k6, Gatling, JMeter).
- Strong CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and artifact/report publishing (Allure/Extent/ReportPortal).
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes) as it relates to test execution at scale.
- Experience establishing coding standards and conducting code reviews for test code; familiarity with design patterns (Page Object, Screenplay, Component Object, Builder, Strategy).
- Solid understanding of test data management, environment management, and observability (logs, metrics, traces) in test pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills.
Requirements
- Define test automation strategy aligned to business goals, release cadence, and risk profile (e.g., shift-left testing, test pyramid, contract testing, performance baseline).
- Evaluate, prescribe, and govern tools across web, mobile, API, data, and performance domains; create decision frameworks (build vs. buy, OSS vs. commercial) and maintain an approved tool catalog.
- Create and enforce coding/testing standards (naming, structure, assertions, waits, page/component objects, service clients, data/model builders) and review mechanisms (linting, code review, pipelines).
- Establish a Quality Architecture blueprint that integrates test automation with CI/CD, and security tooling.
- Define governance for test data management, environment strategy, and versioning of test assets (including contracts and test fixtures).
- Architect scalable, modular automation frameworks (monorepo vs. poly repo strategy, multi-language support if needed) supporting UI, API, contract, and performance testing.
- Build reusable libraries (e.g., HTTP clients, auth handlers, data builders, fixtures, logging, reporting, parallelization, retries).
- Integrate automation into CI/CD (pull request gates, smoke suites, nightly regressions, ephemeral environment validation, quality dashboards).
- Implement observability for tests (structured logs, traces, screenshots/videos, artifact retention) and publish actionable reports to stakeholders.
- Partner with SRE/Platform on environment provisioning, ephemeral test environments, and containerized runners for scalability.
- Coach and mentor SDETs/engineers; run workshops, office hours, and code clinics.
- Create playbooks and templates (starter kits, example projects) to speed adoption.
- Collaborate with product/engineering to define acceptance criteria and testability.
- Drive test data strategy (synthetic/anonymized data, data seeding, contracts).
- Champion shift-left practices (contract tests, component tests, static analysis, mutation testing where appropriate).
Benefits
Job Requirements
- Designing large-scale test automation frameworks and libraries.
- Expertise with one or more core languages for automation: UFT, Java, C#, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python; polyglot comfort is a plus.
- Proven experience with web UI automation (e.g., Playwright, WebDriver/Selenium), API testing (e.g., REST/GraphQL, contract testing with Pact/Playwright/Stoplight), and performance testing (e.g., k6, Gatling, JMeter).
- Strong CI/CD integration experience (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI) and artifact/report publishing (Allure/Extent/ReportPortal).
- Hands-on knowledge of cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP), containers (Docker), and orchestration (Kubernetes) as it relates to test execution at scale.
- Experience establishing coding standards and conducting code reviews for test code; familiarity with design patterns (Page Object, Screenplay, Component Object, Builder, Strategy).
- Solid understanding of test data management, environment management, and observability (logs, metrics, traces) in test pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Define test automation strategy aligned to business goals, release cadence, and risk profile (e.g., shift-left testing, test pyramid, contract testing, performance baseline).
- Evaluate, prescribe, and govern tools across web, mobile, API, data, and performance domains; create decision frameworks (build vs. buy, OSS vs. commercial) and maintain an approved tool catalog.
- Create and enforce coding/testing standards (naming, structure, assertions, waits, page/component objects, service clients, data/model builders) and review mechanisms (linting, code review, pipelines).
- Establish a Quality Architecture blueprint that integrates test automation with CI/CD, and security tooling.
- Define governance for test data management, environment strategy, and versioning of test assets (including contracts and test fixtures).
- Architect scalable, modular automation frameworks (monorepo vs. poly repo strategy, multi-language support if needed) supporting UI, API, contract, and performance testing.
- Build reusable libraries (e.g., HTTP clients, auth handlers, data builders, fixtures, logging, reporting, parallelization, retries).
- Integrate automation into CI/CD (pull request gates, smoke suites, nightly regressions, ephemeral environment validation, quality dashboards).
- Implement observability for tests (structured logs, traces, screenshots/videos, artifact retention) and publish actionable reports to stakeholders.
- Partner with SRE/Platform on environment provisioning, ephemeral test environments, and containerized runners for scalability.
- Coach and mentor SDETs/engineers; run workshops, office hours, and code clinics.
- Create playbooks and templates (starter kits, example projects) to speed adoption.
- Collaborate with product/engineering to define acceptance criteria and testability.
- Drive test data strategy (synthetic/anonymized data, data seeding, contracts).
- Champion shift-left practices (contract tests, component tests, static analysis, mutation testing where appropriate).
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