Test Architect

Job Description: (10+ Years exp)

- Act as a technical consultant and subject matter expert for test automation initiatives.

- Understand business, application, and testing requirements and translate them into effective automation solutions.

- Assess existing automation landscapes and recommend improvements in terms of architecture, tools, processes, scalability, and maintainability.

- Define automation approaches, roadmaps, implementation strategies, and best practices.

- Conduct technical discussions, solution workshops, and proof-of-concepts for automation initiatives.

- Evaluate and recommend appropriate automation tools, technologies, and frameworks based on project requirements.

- Design and architect scalable, reusable, maintainable, and robust automation frameworks.

- Lead the development and implementation of automation frameworks across UI, API, mobile, services, and other testing layers as applicable.

- Define framework architecture, coding standards, design patterns, reusable components, and best practices.

- Ensure automation frameworks are designed for easy integration with CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.

- Drive framework modernization and continuous improvement initiatives.

- Identify and resolve challenges related to framework performance, stability, scalability, and maintainability.

- Provide technical direction and guidance to automation engineers and QA teams.

- Guide teams on automation strategy, framework structure, design, development, coding practices, debugging, and implementation.

- Review automation architecture, technical designs, and code to ensure adherence to defined standards.

- Act as the escalation point for complex automation and framework-related technical issues.

- Mentor team members and help build strong automation engineering capabilities.

- Support teams in making appropriate technical decisions and selecting the right approach for challenging automation scenarios.

- Experience working on large-scale enterprise automation transformation initiatives.

- Experience establishing or contributing to an Automation Center of Excellence (CoE).

- Exposure to cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or other modern DevOps technologies.

- Experience with performance, security, accessibility, or other specialized testing areas.

- Relevant testing, automation, Agile, or cloud certifications would be an advantage.

- Strong technical leadership and mentoring skills.

- Excellent consulting and stakeholder-management abilities.

- Ability to understand complex problems and develop practical, scalable solutions.

- Strong decision-making and architectural thinking.

- Ability to influence teams and drive adoption of automation best practices.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Ability to work across multiple teams and projects and provide technical direction.

- Strong ownership and continuous-improvement mindset.