Test Automation Architect || 100% Remote role
About The Position
The Test Automation Architect defines the automation vision, roadmap, and reference architecture in alignment with business goals and SDLC/STLC. The role selects and standardizes tools, designs reusable libraries and accelerators, and architects modular frameworks supporting UI, API, database, contract, and component testing. It establishes governance, coding standards, quality gates, and metrics, and integrates automation into Agile workflows and CI/CD pipelines. The architect leads framework evolution and troubleshooting, collaborates with development, QA, and SRE teams on test data and environments, and coaches engineers while championing security, performance, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Exceptional communication, stakeholder-management, and technical-leadership skills.
- Expert knowledge of testing concepts, including STLC, UI, API, and database testing, and automation scope assessment.
- Hands-on mastery of Selenium, Katalon, or Playwright and modern API test automation.
- Strong Java, C#, or Groovy coding skills, including OOP, design patterns, and framework architecture.
- Proven experience creating and maintaining enterprise automation frameworks.
- Practical expertise with Azure DevOps, pipelines, and integrations.
- Solid SQL, database-testing, and data-strategy skills.
- Agile and CI/CD fluency, including branching, versioning, and orchestration.
- Experience with defect tracking, analytics, root-cause analysis, and metric-driven decision-making.
- Experience designing test-data management, environment strategy, and service virtualization.
Responsibilities
- Define the automation vision, roadmap, and reference architecture aligned with business goals and SDLC/STLC.
- Select, standardize, and rationalize automation tools, and design reusable libraries, services, and accelerators.
- Architect robust, modular automation frameworks in Java, C#, or Groovy for UI, API, database, contract, and component testing; enforce design patterns and code quality.
- Establish governance, coding standards, quality gates, and metrics such as coverage, stability, MTTR, and ROI; publish dashboards in Azure DevOps.
- Integrate test automation into Agile workflows and CI/CD pipelines to enable shift-left testing, nightly builds, and gated releases.
- Lead framework evolution, scalability, and maintainability; conduct reviews, troubleshoot complex issues, and drive root-cause analysis.
- Partner with developers, QA, and SRE to optimize test data, environments, mocks, and service virtualization for microservices and cloud.
- Coach and upskill engineers; conduct workshops, create playbooks and communities of practice, and support program solutioning.
- Champion security, performance, and reliability considerations within automation and advocate for continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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