Job Summary

The Test Automation Architect is a senior technical leader responsible for defining and delivering the organisations endtoend automation strategy. This role designs scalable automation frameworks, selects the right tools and technologies, and drives bestpractice adoption across delivery teams. Operating from a central capability function, the Architect works closely with developers, platform engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to ensure automation effectively validates the full system under test. The role also provides handson leadership and coaching to automation testers across multiple ARTs and programmes.

Responsibilities

- Develop and implement the automation strategy
- Build a comprehensive automation strategy aligned with organisational testing goals, defining scope, tooling, frameworks, and required resources.
- Identify and prioritise automation opportunities
- Work with stakeholders to assess risk, cost, and business value to determine where automation delivers the greatest impact.
- Select and implement automation frameworks and tools
- Choose and deploy frameworks and technologies that fit the organisations needs, considering test types, team capability, and budget.
- Lead and mentor automation testers
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, and direction to automation testers across teams, ensuring highquality test development and execution.
- Collaborate with stakeholders
- Engage with developers, platform teams, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure automated tests meet expectations and coverage needs.
- Monitor and report automation effectiveness




- Track key metrics such as coverage, execution time, stability, and defect detection, and communicate progress to leadership.
- Stay current with modern automation and AI practices
- Continuously evaluate emerging tools, AIdriven testing capabilities, and industry best practices; uplift team knowledge through communities of practice.
- Support presales and solutioning activities
- Contribute to presales discussions by shaping automation solutions, estimating effort, preparing technical proposals, and demonstrating automation capabilities to clients and internal stakeholders.

Skills Must have
- Bachelor''s Degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 15+ years of experience in testing in test automation and more than 5 years of experience as Test Automation Architect.
- Automation Framework Design Ability to architect scalable, modular, and reusable automation frameworks for UI, API, and mobile testing
- Strong Programming Skills Expertise in Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript for building custom automation solutions
- Tooling Expertise Deep handson experience with Selenium, Playwright, Appium, RestAssured, Cypress, Cucumber, TestNG, JUnit
- CI/CD Integration Skilled in embedding automated tests into Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or GitLab pipelines
- AIDriven Testing Leveraging AI/ML for test generation, selfhealing scripts, defect prediction, and intelligent test selection
- API Microservices Testing Robust understanding of REST, SOAP, GraphQL, and contract testing
- Cloud Containerisation Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloudbased test environments (AWS/Azure/GCP)

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