FTE)

NTT DATA Services•Pine Grove Township, PA

About The Position

NTT DATA is hiring a Senior Test Architect for a project delivery team in Irving, Texas. The role focuses on defining testing strategy and quality assurance, building and maintaining test automation frameworks, integrating automated testing into CI/CD, and providing technical leadership to QA Engineers, SDETs, and testing teams. The position is aligned to a current client project and emphasizes delivery rather than business development or promotion. The role is tied to the project and includes a benefits package competitive for project delivery-focused professionals. The Test Architect coordinates end-to-end and unified testing across multiple teams and release milestones. This includes assessing project scope and feature documentation to determine whether end-to-end testing is needed, aligning business and testing stakeholders on scenarios, coordinating testbed readiness and test data preparation, and ensuring test plans and scripts are prepared in the appropriate tools and release versions. The role oversees testing communications and execution, monitors quality and defects, validates release readiness, and prepares testing closure artifacts such as the Test Exit Report.

Requirements

At least 8 years of overall experience as a testing professional.
At least 4 years of experience in test management or test architecture roles supporting multi-team release programs.
At least 5 years of experience coordinating testing across multiple teams and release milestones.
At least 4 years of experience with JIRA and Zephyr, or equivalent test management tools, including fix-version alignment and dashboarding.
At least 4 years of facilitation experience aligning business, testing, and delivery stakeholders.
At least 5 years of experience producing release-level testing artifacts, such as Test Plans, TER Readiness Checklists, and Test Exit Reports.
At least 4 years of experience with test-data management and test-environment management.
At least 4 years of experience with test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, UFT/QTP, and/or TestComplete.
At least 4 years of experience with API testing using tools and technologies such as Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI, and/or GraphQL testing.
At least 4 years of experience using test frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, PyTest, and/or Cucumber.
At least 4 years of experience designing and maintaining functional, regression, integration, API, database, and end-to-end automated test suites.
At least 4 years of experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
At least 4 years of experience with CI/CD and DevOps technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, and/or Bamboo.
Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related IT discipline, or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

Project experience in the banking domain.

Responsibilities

Define the overall testing strategy and quality assurance approach for the project.
Design and maintain test automation frameworks to improve efficiency and coverage.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and delivery.
Provide technical leadership and mentoring to QA Engineers, SDETs, and testing teams.
Track and report quality metrics, risks, defects, and release readiness to stakeholders.
Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and DevOps teams to support high-quality software delivery.
Review Project Scope (in PTS) and Project Feature (on Confluence) documents with stakeholders to determine whether end-to-end testing is needed; use the JIRA TA Dashboard and targeted queries to confirm impacted Scrum Teams.
When end-to-end testing is required, align Business Analysts, the Business Sponsor, and testing teams on scenarios, impacted teams, and open questions, targeting full scenario sign-off at least one week before UAT/Unified Testing.
Coordinate Testbed criteria-pull readiness for UAT1/UAT2 in line with the Release Calendar and drive Test Data Management preparation through the designated SharePoint site.
Initiate the Test Plan Input in the first impacted Sprint and help teams prepare stories and scripts in the correct Zephyr Release Fix Version aligned to JIRA, or use the required Excel-based process for non-Zephyr teams.
Lead Unified Testing communications and execution oversight, distribute status updates at a cadence suited to project risk, monitor progress for slippage, and intervene early to protect release milestones.
Oversee JIRA defect health and resolution accountability, validate Zephyr release readiness, and lead testing closure by preparing the TER Readiness Checklist and creating the Test Exit Report (TER).