QA Automation Architect - 1317
 
 
Location: REMOTE until Covid work from home is over then work in Newtown, PA
Relocation: Offered
Position Type: Full-time with benefits – w2 only!
Visa Type: Citizen, Green card or we can sponsor or transfer your visa to our client’s payroll.
Salary Range: $130K-$160K
 
 

• Define test automation scope (Functional and Non-functional), and tools and technologies required to automate testing for different tiers (Front end, APIs, Backend etc.)
• Collaborate with Project Teams, Business Systems Analysts, and other QA Leads, to create, communicate and drive overall quality strategy.
• Enable and embrace shift left strategy.
• Establish the test architecture, reusable frameworks, and components. Ability to choose approach and drive different types of automated testing(Functional/Non-Functional)
• Create/Assist/Troubleshoot the development of automation harness to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability across the organization.
• Provide data driven, metrics driven quality assurance and visibility at program level.
• Has knowledge on how to incorporate quality into software (architecture, quality of code, deployment and release process, quality of testing process, etc.)
• Co-ordinate designing internal solutions (libraries, tools, automation infrastructure, applications and systems associated with quality)
• Basic understanding of EngX (Engineering excellence) practices and most popular tools (e.g., Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, plug-ins, etc.)
• Participates in product design reviews, works with the Solution Architect and development team to improve system testability and overall quality.
• Establishes communication between Quality assurance engineers and other project stake holders.
• Has experience building efficient quality processes from scratch or significantly improving existing.
• Hands-on and up-to-date experience in modern testing tools and approaches
• Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, colleagues and/or customers.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with other IT services, IT solution functions and customers to expedite delivery of IT solutions.
• Manage the Daily/Weekly activities of Quality Team Members and support the onboarding of new team members.
• Contribute to program/project review meetings. Support management in
• Determining status, assessing problem areas, suggesting, and reviewing corrective actions,
• Directing/planning necessary extra work, and rework and re-plan activities
• Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives.
• Assist in the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards and procedures, processes, and best practices as related to automation through a Community of Practice.
• Support the onboarding of new team members.
• Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives to implement during system development life cycles.

Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities:

• Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options, and where appropriate, leading to resolution.
• Ability to clearly articulate both problems and proposed solutions
• Ability to prioritize personal and team workloads to best meet organizational objectives.
• Empowered to make decisions and recommend approach based on the results from quality review.

 
 
Knowledge and Skills Requirements:

• Experienced with establishing test automation from scratch.
• Solid knowledge of the automation tools in the market to be able to propose the best setup based on the client's need and situation.
• Proven ability to evaluate, understand, and troubleshoot complex issues and solve problems with little or no supervision.
• Ability to evaluate requirements then develop test plans and test strategy.
• Hands on experience planning and executing end-to-end testing.
• Understanding of programming concepts in various languages (variables, parameters, data driven, and code flow).
• Experience with relational databases (able to formulate queries, insert, extract, and evaluate data from database tables)
• Previous experience with Test Automation, Web UI automation, API testing manual or automation; strong experience designing and building automation frameworks.
• Experience working with Selenium and Cucumber or similar tools in this space.
• Experience with TDD and BDD approach, its Pros and Cons
• Familiarity with the following tools (Jenkins, Zephyr, Jira, Quality Center, QTest)
• Must have experience implementing Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) practices
• Must be energetic and proactive team player with aptitude and willingness to lead when necessary.
• Must be good with understanding Automation SLA’s and Metrics and drive team in achieving them.
• Bachelor’s degree in any field with a minor in a Computer Science related field or at least five years of related industry experience.