Quality Assurance Architect

Verra Mobility • Mesa, AZ

10h

About The Position

The QA Architect owns the vision, strategy, and hands on execution of quality engineering across the Platform, Credential, and Violations portfolios, reporting to the Senior Enterprise Architect. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports: influence comes from technical credibility and direct partnership rather than organizational authority.

You will personally build automation frameworks, write and review test code, and work directly inside a squad when a team needs help, including training engineers, pairing on hard problems, and doing the work directly when that is what moves a team forward fastest.

Requirements

• 8+ years in QA, quality engineering, or software engineering, including 4+ years focused specifically on test automation strategy and architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience required.
• Deep, current hands on ability is essential; candidates must be comfortable writing production quality automation code today, including stepping directly into a squad’s codebase and shipping tests.
• Senior level knowledge of testing processes, principles, and techniques at an ISTQB or equivalent depth, along with strong proficiency in QA automation and scripting using current tooling, with Python, pytest, and Playwright strongly preferred over older frameworks.
• Excellent command of automation best practices, including clean coding and the Test Automation Pyramid, along with the judgment to know when to deviate from them.
• Working knowledge of non functional testing, including load, stress, and endurance testing, and basic security testing informed by OWASP fundamentals, along with practical, current experience with SQL, REST and SOAP APIs, CI/CD tooling, and browser and mobile testing tools.
• Experience designing test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations, along with working knowledge of test data management and data quality validation practices for shared or regulated datasets.

Nice To Haves

• Deep, current hands on ability to design and build test automation frameworks and shared libraries, not only maintain existing ones.
• Experience designing test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations, not only synchronous REST and SOAP calls.
• Working knowledge of test data management and data quality validation practices for shared or regulated datasets.
• Experience designing regression and cutover test strategies for live system migrations.
• Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams without direct command and control authority, leading primarily through credibility and hands on partnership.
• Strong written and verbal communication that translates quality strategy for engineers and portfolio or enterprise leadership alike.
• ISTQB or ASTQB certification, or a more advanced credential, is preferred, along with experience establishing a QA or automation function from an earlier or less mature state.
• Experience in mobility, transportation, tolling, parking, or other high volume transaction processing industries is a plus, as is familiarity with compliance relevant testing considerations such as PCI DSS and data privacy.
• Experience designing regression and cutover test strategies for live system migrations is also a plus, as is experience evaluating third party test automation or quality tooling vendors, including basic build versus buy judgment.

Responsibilities

• Own the QA Vision: Define and own the enterprise QA vision and long term automation strategy across Platform, Credential, and Violations, informed by the shift left principle.
• Establish the Testing Standard: Establish the testing pyramid and automation approach, spanning unit, integration, contract, end to end, performance, and non functional testing, as a consistent standard while allowing for legitimate portfolio differences.
• Extend Strategy to Asynchronous Systems: Extend the quality tooling roadmap to test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations, not only synchronous request and response calls.
• Build Shared Frameworks: Personally build and maintain core automation frameworks and shared test libraries, and write and review test code, automation scripts, and test plans directly alongside squad engineers.
• Unblock Teams Directly: Step in directly when a team lacks the automation skill or capacity to implement the strategy, pairing with engineers, running training sessions, or writing the initial test suite to get a squad unstuck.
• Guide Non Functional Testing: Perform and guide non functional testing, including load, stress, performance, and basic security testing informed by OWASP principles, for services where the risk profile warrants it.
• Partner Without Authority: Work directly with QA Leads and Tech Leads across Platform, Credential, and Violations to implement the QA strategy in each specific context, leading through technical standards, coaching, and hands on partnership rather than direct reporting lines.
• Resolve Cross Portfolio Dependencies: Identify and resolve cross portfolio testing dependencies, for example ensuring Credential and Violations squads can reliably test the integration points between eligibility, provisioning, and citation workflows.
• Represent QA in Architecture: Represent QA in the Architecture CoE, flagging where automation or quality standards need to evolve, and track quality metrics such as defect escape rate, automation coverage, test execution time, and change failure rate.

Benefits

• Verra Mobility values: Own It, Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together.
• Verra Mobility Applicant Privacy Notice: With your explicit consent which you provided as part of the application process, we will retain candidate personal data solely for the business purpose for which it was collected. In no event will we retain such data more than two (2) years following the closure of the recruitment process relating to the role for which you applied or in the event other related job opportunities arise within the company.
• Verra Mobility is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior