Qe Architect

Description:

• Establish and evolve the Quality platform, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices, tools, and frameworks.
• Partner with SDET, Development and DevOps, leadership to achieve quality excellence, address tech debts in Quality Engineering, set the bar for quality of quality and keep raising it.
• Identify the top opportunities – in the processes, tools, the infrastructure, the skills and help improve constantly to achieve highest product quality.
• Set the vision for scalable, efficient, and effective automation.
• Design, oversee, validate and sign-off on testing and automation approaches of the team.
• Partner with development, architects, and DevOps architects to create the best tooling solutions for holistic quality.
• Work closely with software development team and product management to ensure quality of software and applications.
• Participate in release planning activities, support team members with estimates and risk analysis for the new features.
• Mentor and nurture SDET team members for their technical scaling, as well as outside contract / remote testers.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment while managing change and ambiguity of evolving requests.
• Integrate our tests into our pipeline to ensure we are building with quality throughout our SLDC.
• Help define best practices and work with teams to ensure that they are being followed.
• Identify gaps and provide recommendations for improvement on existing pipeline and processes.

What You Will Bring

• BS / MS degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience working in a product development environment.
• Experienced in architecting, designing, developing tools in the space of development, testing, deployment etc.
• Experience having transformed QA/QE organizations to SDET/DevOps.
• Experience with programming/scripting technologies like Java, Groovy, Scala, JavaScript, or TypeScript
• Expert experience building front end and backend test automation frameworks.
• Experience using container technologies like Docker.
• Have hands-on experience writing unit tests and automation using TDD, BDD, or similar.
• Have working knowledge of many or all of these: Selenium, Gatling, Splunk, New Relic, Jira, Git, and other DevOps tools.
• Experience working with complex development stacks and able to develop and test at all levels.
• Experience with design and development of automation frameworks and being able to represent quality function during feature design.
• Experience building, maintaining, enhancing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with distributed, multi-tenant SaaS (software as a service) applications.
• Experience with cloud computing and technologies (AWS (Amazon Web Services) Stack highly desirable).
• Possess a firm understanding of software development lifecycle, processes, and methodologies.
• Possess a firm understanding of Agile and Scrum processes.
• Possess leadership and communications skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.