Job highlights
- Experience . 12+ years of experience in Test Automation,SDET,Quality Engineering,or Test Architecture
Test Automation Architect
Experience
12+ years of experience in Test Automation, SDET, Quality Engineering, or Test Architecture.
Role Summary
We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Architect to define and drive the automation and Quality Engineering strategy across products and teams. The role combines automation architecture, framework design, CI/CD integration, RHEL platform testing and security/compliance validation, cloud/container testing, and technical leadership.
Automation Architecture + Quality Engineering Strategy + Platform Security Compliance + Technical Leadership + Hands-on Technical Guidance The role is expected to provide architecture and technical direction while remaining sufficiently hands-on in framework design, POCs, troubleshooting, and critical automation solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define Test Automation / Quality Engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmap.
- Design and implement scalable, reusable, enterprise-level test automation frameworks.
- Drive automation across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, and platform testing.
- Define automation architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and reusable components.
- Lead integration of automated testing with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
- Drive automation across RHEL, Azure, Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
- Define and drive RHEL platform validation, security testing, hardening validation,
and compliance testing strategies.
- Define automation approaches for platform security controls and security compliance requirements.
- Provide technical direction and conduct architecture/code reviews for automation solutions.
- Develop and review automation using Python, Playwright/Selenium, Shell, and Java.
- Define strategies for test data, environment management, parallel execution, reporting, scalability, and distributed test execution.
- Improve automation coverage, reliability, execution time, maintainability, security validation, compliance coverage, and ROI.
- Drive shift-left testing and security/quality engineering practices across the SDLC.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex automation, platform, security, and setting issues.
- Define and track quality and automation metrics such as coverage, automation effectiveness, execution time, defect leakage, security coverage, and compliance status.
- Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Security, Platform, Architecture, Product, and QA teams.
- Evaluate and introduce new automation tools, frameworks, security-validation approaches, and technologies.
- Drive adoption of AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and Gemini for test generation, automation, debugging, security validation, and productivity.
- Mentor Senior Engineers and Technical Leads. **Architecture Technical Leadership
- Define reference architectures and reusable automation patterns for application, platform, security, and compliance testing.
- Assess existing frameworks and drive automation modernization and transformation.
- Establish automation standards and best practices across teams.
- Define the right balance of UI, API, integration, service-level, platform, and security automation.
- Define an automation strategy for RHEL platform security and security compliance validation.
- Establish reusable approaches for validating RHEL hardening, security configurations, vulnerabilities, access controls, and compliance requirements.
- Drive reduction of manual testing through automation, including security and compliance validation.
- Evaluate tools/frameworks based on scalability, reliability, maintainability, execution speed, security capabilities, and cost.
- Provide technical direction across multiple QA/engineering teams.
- Review automation architecture, test strategy, code, technical designs, and security/compliance validation approaches.****
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