Automation Architect

Key Responsibilities:

• Key Responsibilities
• Architecture Strategy
• Define the QE reference architecture UI API data mobile non functional aligned to product and platform strategy
• Design modular scalable test automation frameworks in Java Selenium Page Object Screenplay Component Object Model extendable to REST Assured Playwright and contract testing Pact
• Establish test pyramid shift left practices and quality gates integrated into build pipelines
• Introduce service virtualization test data management TDM and environment strategy ephemeral envs test containers
• DevOps Platform Engineering
• Industrialize automation via CI CD Jenkins GitHub Actions Azure DevOps parallelization and Selenium Grid Docker Kubernetes
• Set up artifact versioning secrets management policy as code and SonarQube quality profiles for automation code
• Implement observability for tests structured logs trace IDs metrics dashboards Allure Extent Custom Grafana boards
• Drive flaky test governance quarantine lanes retry heuristics root cause patterns stability SLOs
• Cloud Modern Platforms
• Design cloud native test execution AWS Azure GCP leverage BrowserStack Sauce Labs for cross browser device coverage
• Validate distributed systems event driven Kafka microservices and serverless with contract resilience testing
• Integrate feature flags blue green canary validation and chaos experiments into pre prod gates
• Non Functional Quality
• Establish performance engineering baselines JMeter Gatling capacity modeling SLAs SLOs
• Embed security testing OWASP ASVS ZAP Burp automation hooks accessibility WCAG and reliability checks
• Leadership Client Orientation
• Run architecture reviews coach SDETs and build communities of practice for QE
• Partner with Product Engineering to shape roadmaps budgets and resourcing support RFPs and client workshops
• Translate complex quality risks into clear executive ready narratives and remediation plans

Preferred Skills:

Technology->Automated Testing->Automated Testing - ALL,Technology->DevOps->Continuous integration - Java->Jenkins,Technology->Java->Java - ALL,Technology->Testing methodology->Risk based Testing,Technology->Testing Technologyes->Functionality Testing Technology,Technology->Agile Testing->Agile Testing - ALL->CD/CI,Technology->Magento Rest Webservices->REST, Soap, Webservices,Technology->Microsoft Technologies->Web Services/Restfull API,Technology->API Testing->Postman,Technology->Architecture->Architecture - ALL