Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Quality Architect to define, design, and implement enterprise-wide quality engineering frameworks across cloud-native and platform-based products. This role will drive automation architecture, reliability strategy, and quality governance across distributed systems.The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in automation frameworks, cloud validation, and scalable testing architecture.Key Responsibilities

Quality Architecture & Strategy

- Define enterprise test architecture and automation strategy.
- Establish standardized frameworks for UI, API, integration, and performance testing.
- Drive shift-left quality practices and test-driven engineering.
- Design quality gates and release readiness criteria.

Automation Framework Design

- Architect reusable, scalable test automation frameworks.
- Lead CI/CD integration of automated test suites.
- Improve automation reliability, execution speed, and coverage.
- Implement API-first and microservices-based test strategies.

Cloud & Platform Validation

- Design validation frameworks for AWS, Azure, and GCP deployments.
- Lead performance, scalability, and resiliency testing.
- Define quality standards for containerized and Kubernetes environments.
- Partner with DevOps/SRE teams for observability-driven validation.

Governance & Metrics

- Establish quality KPIs and dashboards.
- Drive defect prevention and root cause frameworks.
- Improve release stability and reduce production incidents.
- Align quality metrics with engineering and business outcomes.

Technical Leadership





- Mentor senior QA engineers and automation leads.
- Influence product architecture from a quality perspective.
- Conduct architectural reviews and quality assessments.
- Collaborate with global engineering stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

- 12 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Test Architecture roles.
- Strong programming expertise in Java and/or Python.
- Extensive hands-on experience with:
- Test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress
- API automation tools including REST Assured or similar frameworks
- CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
- Performance testing tools like JMeter or k6
- Containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes

- Experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and microservices-based environments.

Preferred Qualifications

- Experience in enterprise cloud migration validation.
- Exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
- Knowledge of security and compliance testing.
- Experience working in global delivery models.

Additional InformationThe recruitment process includes online assessments as a first step - we send them via e-mail, please check also your SPAM folderWork Location: Strategy Chennai office full time, Monday to Friday

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📌 Quality Architect (Chennai)
🏢 Strategy
📍 Chennai