Mobile Test Architect

We are seeking a professional and highly experienced Test Architect to shape and oversee the entire quality engineering strategy across our organization. You will be the key individual responsible for designing our testing ecosystem defining technical standards and ensuring our engineering processes are scalable efficient and world-class.

This role demands deep technical expertise in automation a profound understanding of DevOps practices and the ability to think strategically. You will work closely with Software Architects DevOps and Product Management to build quality into every phase of the product development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Define Quality Strategy: Create and evangelize the long-term quality vision and testing strategy (including functional and non-functional) for all products in the organization.
• Test Architecture: Design and govern the architecture of test automation frameworks (UI API Mobile). Ensure these frameworks are scalable reusable and maintainable across multiple teams.
• Tooling R&D and Evaluation: Lead research (R&D) conduct Proofs of Concept (PoCs) and make strategic build vs. buy decisions for critical tooling (e.g. device farm orchestration test management platforms).
• DevOps & CI/CD Partnership: Act as a key stakeholder for the DevOps team to design and optimize quality gates within CI/CD pipelines. Define quality metrics and ensure a rapid reliable feedback loop for developers.
• Standards & Governance: Establish and enforce organizational standards for test code code reviews source control strategy (Git/Bitbucket) and test environment management.
• Non-Functional Testing: Drive the strategy and implementation of non-functional testing at an architectural level including performance load and security.
• Mentorship & Influence: Serve as the top-level technical authority and mentor for L4 (Senior) engineers. Champion a culture of quality as a shared responsibility and shift-left testing across the entire engineering department.
• Test Data Management (TDM): Design and implement robust strategies for test data management (TDM) and data provisioning for automation.

Requirements

• Experience: Extensive (e.g. 8 years) background in quality engineering including significant experience in a leadership or architectural role.
• Mobile Architecture & Device Farms: Mandatory expertise in designing and governing a scalable mobile testing infrastructure. This must include deep hands-on architectural experience with cloud-based device farms (e.g. AWS Device Farm Sauce Labs BrowserStack) to ensure massive parallel execution and comprehensive test coverage.
• Automation Expertise: Mastery in designing and building complex automation frameworks from the ground up. Polyglot proficiency in multiple programming languages.
• DevOps & CI/CD Expertise: Knowledge of DevOps practices containerization (Docker Kubernetes) and CI/CD architecture. Ability to design pipelines not just use them.
• Database: Advanced proficiency in SQL and an understanding of database architecture sufficient to design TDM strategies.
• Non-Functional: Documented experience in architecting and implementing large-scale performance and security testing initiatives.
• Soft Skills: Strategic mindset systems-level thinking outstanding communication skills and the ability to influence C-level and Director-level stakeholders.
• Agile: Deeply rooted in Agile principles with the experience to scale those practices across a large organization.

Nice to have

• Experience implementing Chaos Engineering.
• Familiarity with application security standards.
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS GCP Azure) and managing infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Active participation in the QA community (e.g. conference speaking publications).

We offer you

• Working in a highly experienced and dedicated team
• Competitive salary and extra benefit package that can be tailored to your personal needs (private medical coverage sport & recreation package lunch subsidy life insurance etc.)
• Contract of employment
• On-line training and certifications fit for career path
• Regular social events
• Access to e-learning platform