Principal Test Platform Architect & Quality Consultant

Oracle • Redwood City, CA

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About The Position

About the role: We’re seeking a Enterprise Consulting Architect to partner with our functional, stress, and performance testing teams to modernize and scale our enterprise testing approach across on-prem and cloud. You will assess existing tools and processes, remove redundancies, and architect secure, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions that improve reliability and velocity. What you’ll do: Lead an enterprise assessment; define a target-state architecture and roadmap. Rationalize tooling and eliminate redundant testing across teams. Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, selection, triage, and environment stability while maintaining strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails across on-prem and cloud. Build a scalable test platform and integrate security/compliance controls into CI/CD. Standardize performance and stress testing practices aligned to SLOs. Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance; enable teams through playbooks and consulting. What you’ll bring: 10–15+ years in QE/architecture; success leading large-scale testing transformations. Deep experience in functional, stress, and performance testing;

Requirements

• 10–15+ years in quality engineering or software architecture, with 5+ years consulting or leading large enterprise testing transformations.
• Demonstrated success rationalizing tools and eliminating redundant testing across multiple large teams.
• Deep expertise in functional, stress testing at scale, including methodologies, workload modeling, and environment design.
• Strong CI/CD experience across on-prem and major clouds.
• Solid knowledge of security and compliance controls integrated into pipelines (SAST/DAST/IAST, secrets hygiene, SBOM/signing, license compliance).
• Proficiency with observability (metrics/logs/traces), service virtualization, and test data management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and change enablement across matrixed orgs

Nice To Haves

• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and data/streaming performance testing.
• Experience and or knowledge of AI tools available for testing enterprise scale software

Responsibilities

• Enterprise discovery and assessment Map current test practices, tools, environments, and data flows across teams and products (on-prem and cloud). Quantify redundancy, flakiness, coverage gaps, runtime hotspots, and security/compliance gaps. Align on requirements with QA, Dev, Program Management, Security, and Compliance.
• Tooling and process rationalization Create a consolidation plan for overlapping tools and duplicated test suites; recommend standard frameworks and patterns per test layer. Define exit criteria and migration paths; minimize disruption while improving signal quality.
• Strategy and Roadmap Define an AI/Ml roadmap for quality engineering working with teams; prioritize use cases, data sources, required guardrails and ROI
• Target-state architecture Design a scalable test platform supporting functional, stress testing: parallelization, ephemeral environments, environment orchestration, and self-service test data services.
• Quality and security by design Integrate quality gates, SAST/DAST/IAST into CI/CD for both on-prem and cloud deployments. Establish compliant test data strategies (masking, synthetic generation, retention, residency).
• Governance, metrics, and enablement Stand up dashboards and evidence trails for audit readiness. Create playbooks, golden paths, and training to enable large testing teams; provide hands-on consulting and reviews.
• Change leadership Build a cross-functional working group; sequence pilots and incremental rollouts. Communicate outcomes and ROI to leadership; guide teams through adoption.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Principal
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees