QE Automation Architect

EverBank • Jacksonville, FL

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About The Position

The QE Automation Architect will lead the design and implementation of scalable automation frameworks while driving quality across DevOps, SRE, and AI-powered testing practices. This role will focus on embedding intelligent automation into the software lifecycle, enabling observability-driven validation, and ensuring high system reliability and performance in production environments.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in Test Automation Architecture and framework design
• Prior background with DevOps and CI/CD integration
• Strong understanding of Observability and monitoring strategies
• Experience with cloud platforms and distributed systems - Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.
• Knowledge of containerization - Docker, Kubernetes
• AI-driven testing and intelligent automation
• Strong analytical, debugging, and leadership skills

Nice To Haves

• 7 years of experience in Test Automation Architecture
• Experience with AI/ML-based testing tools and frameworks
• Familiarity with SRE principles & concepts (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response)

Responsibilities

• Harmonizes systems design and technology constraints in accordance with compliance requirements.
• Assists in developing key capabilities and performance requirements when developing system architectures.
• Designs models and architectural guidelines for current and future system development.
• Contributes to and designs solutions requiring integration of multiple platforms, operating systems and applications across the enterprise.
• Leads in complex data/system modeling and advanced project development.
• Sometimes coaches, reviews and delegates work to lower-level professionals.
• Define and drive the enterprise test automation strategy, aligning with business and DevOps goals
• Architect and build scalable, reusable automation frameworks for UI, API, and backend testing
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions, enabling continuous testing and quality gates
• Collaborate with DevOps teams on infrastructure-as-code, environment provisioning, and pipeline optimization
• Implement observability-driven testing by integrating automated tests with enterprise monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting platforms to validate system behavior, performance, and reliability across environments.
• Partner with SRE teams to monitor SLIs, SLOs, and reliability metrics to ensure system performance and availability.
• Support incident response, root cause analysis, and postmortems, ensuring continuous reliability improvements
• Lead AI-driven test automation initiatives, including self-healing tests, predictive defect detection, and intelligent test prioritization
• Drive NLP-based test generation from requirements
• Drive comprehensive automation strategy across UI, API, integration, and performance testing (e.g., Postman, Rest Assured, JMeter)
• Establish and enforce coding standards, best practices, and maintainable automation design
• Mentor QA engineers and SDETs; lead code reviews and architecture discussions
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, DevOps, and SRE teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC
• Define and track KPIs such as automation coverage, defect leakage, pipeline success rates, and system uptime
• Drive continuous improvement using data-driven insights from testing and production environments

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree