QA Automation Architect
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Job Title
Principal QA Automation Architect
Experience Required
810 years
Job Summary
The Principal QA Automation Architect is responsible for defining implementing and evangelizing best-in-class quality engineering and automation strategies across the organization. This role owns QA architectural artifacts testing frameworks CI/CD quality controls and non-functional testing strategies to ensure scalable secure and high-quality solutions across diverse platforms including Web Mobile Data Engineering AI and Enterprise systems.
Working closely with engineering architecture product and operations teams this role drives automation maturity shift-left practices and continuous quality improvement to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.
Key Responsibilities
QA Architecture & Strategy
Define implement and maintain QA architectural artifacts including testing systems feedback loops logging reporting and interconnectivity across the SDLC.
Create and maintain implementation-level QA architectures that support scalable maintainable and reusable testing strategies.
Contribute to and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) at an organizational level.
Define and drive best-in-class QA strategies across functional and non-functional testing domains.
Automation & Tooling
Design and govern automation frameworks for Web API Mobile Data and Enterprise systems.
Lead organization-wide quality automation initiatives including Integration Acceptance Performance and Security testing platforms.
Provide consultancy and guidance on technology stack and tool selection ensuring alignment with scalability performance security and compliance requirements.
Establish quality gates metrics and reporting mechanisms to measure and improve quality outcomes.
CI/CD & SDLC Integration
Embed quality controls into CI/CD pipelines and all phases of the SDLC.
Champion shift-left testing practices to reduce feedback loops and improve delivery speed.
Support environment configuration pipeline feedback mechanisms and automated reporting.
Drive ITSM (ITIL v4) aligned practices across change incident problem and operational processes.
Governance Evangelism & Enablement
Enable teams to adopt and adhere to QA Engineering Policies Procedures and Standards.
Govern train and evangelize good testing practices versus anti-patterns across all testing levels.
Lead knowledge transfer mentoring and training of QA and engineering teams.
Collaborate with other Principal Engineers and cross-disciplinary teams to advocate for quality automation needs.
Customer & Quality Focus
Develop testing strategies aligned to customer needs risks and business outcomes.
Expand testing beyond functional validation into performance security reliability and scalability.
Ensure testing approaches validate solution appropriateness across critical dimensions of quality.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical Skills
Extensive hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks including but not limited to:
Selenium WebDriverIO Appium TestComplete
JMeter Chrome Lighthouse Karate Labs
BrowserStack or similar cloud testing platforms
Strong programming knowledge in Java JavaScript TypeScript HTML CSS.
Expert-level knowledge of testing strategy test planning test case design execution and reporting.
Proven experience integrating quality controls into CI/CD pipelines.
Strong experience in API and Web automation.
Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g. Docker Kubernetes) is a strong plus.
Familiarity with SAP platforms (S/4HANA Commerce Cloud / Hybris) is a plus.
Experience with test management tools such as Zephyr.
Process & Architecture Skills
Deep understanding of SDLC QA governance and automation architecture.
Experience authoring and maintaining process and architecture documentation.
Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (Miro FigJam ).
Strong understanding of ITSM / ITIL v4 processes.
Soft Skills
Strong communication presentation and stakeholder-influencing skills.
Ability to mentor coach and lead without direct authority.
Customer-centric mindset with the ability to empathize with user needs and risks.
Education
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
Required Skills:
Experience (Years): 4-6 Essential Skills: Work with project teams throughout the organization to design implement and manage CDN infrastructure using Akamai to ensure high availability performance and scalability for customer facing applications and business processes. Handle multiple priorities and assignments with excellence and precision. Be a part of a 24/7/365 organization (some after hours support is expected as part of normal on-call rotation). Directly support line of business development teams provide guidance to them on implementation and changes for customer facing applications Develop and maintain security protocols and measures to protect CDN infrastructure from cyber threats. Monitor and analyze network performance identifying and resolving issues to optimize content delivery of critical applications. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Akamai CDN solutions with existing systems and applications. Collaborate with information security teams to implement DDoS protection strategies and other security measures in the CDN. Provide technical support and guidance to clients and internal teams regarding CDN and security best practices. Work closely with vendor and professional service teams on delivery related activities and strategy. Qualifications: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related field. OR similar work experience. Strong understanding of network protocols (HTTP/HTTPS DNS TCP/IP). Proven experience as a CDN Engineer or similar role with a strong focus on -depth knowledge of Content Delivery Network technologies including caching load balancing and content optimization. Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail. Strong communication and teamwork abilities. Experience supporting 24/7/365 customer facing applications at enterprise scale. Awareness and experience with cybersecurity tools and practices such as firewalls intrusion detection/prevention systems and encryption. Proficiency in scripting and automation (e.g. Python Bash) a plus. Relevant certifications (e.g. CISSP CEH) are a plus but not required.
Company Industry
IT Services and IT Consulting
Key Skills
- Continuous Integration
- APIs
- Automotive software
- Test Cases
- Electrical Engineering
- Junit
- Distributed Control Systems
- Testng
- Java
- Test Automation
- Programmable Logic Controllers
- Selenium
