Position Overview

- We are seeking a highly skilled, hands-on QA Technical Architect to be part of our organization’s Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE).
- This role is 100% technical and focuses on independent coding along with deep expertise in automation architecture, framework design, and advanced problem-solving.
- A strong foundation in Selenium WebDriver concepts is essential, as Katalon’s web automation engine is built on Selenium.
- This role plays a critical leadership position in defining automation architecture, enabling best practices, and driving quality engineering excellence across projects.

Key Responsibilities

1. Test Strategy & Architecture

- Define and own the enterprise test automation strategy, framework architecture, and roadmap for functional, regression, API, mobile, integration, and non-functional testing.
- Architect scalable, modular, and reusable automation frameworks and solutions aligned with enterprise standards and reusable across projects.
- Evaluate and recommend tools, frameworks, and design patterns based on long-term scalability and maintainability and project needs.
- Establish and enforce automation architecture standards, coding conventions, design principles, and best practices for test automation, CI/CD integration.
- Define strategies and guardrails for non-functional testing (performance, security, reliability) within the automation ecosystem.
- Enable shift-left testing by embedding automation early in the development lifecycle.

2. Automation Engineering & Tools

- Design, develop, and maintain robust automation frameworks using Katalon Studio (Web, API, Mobile).

- Write, review, and optimize Java-style Groovy automation code within Katalon’s JVM-based scripting model.

- Build advanced Custom Keywords, utilities, shared libraries, helper components,



and dynamic object strategies.

- Hands-on expertise in automation frameworks/tools:

- Katalon Studio (primary tool)

- Selenium WebDriver concepts (deep conceptual understanding + practical experience)

- API Automation (Katalon API tests, REST frameworks, Postman)

- Mentor QA engineers in advanced test automation practices, scripting and tool usage.

- Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins) and enforce pipeline quality gates.

- Produce high-quality technical documentation, architectural diagrams, reusable templates, walkthroughs and training guides.

- Proactively identify gaps in automation and propose innovative solutions to improve efficiency and reliability.

2.1 Additional Skills

- The following skills are not mandatory but greatly enhance the technical breadth and versatility expected from a QA Technical Architect, significantly strengthening their ability to design scalable, enterprise-grade solutions and broaden architectural depth across the TCoE.

- Highly Recommended:

- JMeter / k6

- OWASP basics

- TestNG / JUnit

- Rest Assured

- Cucumber

- Cloud basics (AWS, Azure, GCP)

- Optional:

- Playwright

- Cypress

- Appium (standalone)

- Robot Framework

- Advanced cloud skills (AWS, Azure, GCP)

3. Version Control & CI/CD Integration

- Architect and maintain GitLab-based repo structure, including branching strategies, versioning, merge standards,



and repository governance.
- Build scalable CI/CD pipelines for automated execution of smoke, regression, E2E, and API automation suites.
- Manage setting-specific automated test execution using Dockerized Katalon Runtime Engine for isolated, stable test runs.
- Implement pipeline stages with conditional execution logic, including handling critical vs non-critical tests, automated rollback triggers, quality gating, notifications and analytics to ensure deployment safety.
- Implement dynamic environment variables, secrets management, and parameterized pipelines to enable reusable and flexible pipelines across multiple projects.
- Improve pipeline stability by analysing failures, environment issues, configuration mismatches, and cross-project dependencies.

4. Continuous Improvement & Technical Leadership

- Stay updated with emerging trends in automation, DevOps, Katalon features, quality engineering, and best practices.
- Continuously evaluate and recommend process optimizations, new frameworks, architectural improvements, and tooling enhancements.
- Act as a technical authority and partner with architects, developers, product owners, and QA teams across projects.
- Own end-to-end POCs to assess new automation solutions and provide recommendations for enterprise adoption.
- Act as the central QA architectural point of contact within the TCoE, collaborating with Automation Leads, Delivery teams, and Architecture stakeholders.
- Work in strong partnership with the TCoE Automation Lead Engineer to define automation approach, framework design, execution standards, and scalability strategy.
- Engage with DF Platform Architects to align QA automation architecture with platform design, integrations, and system constraint

📌 QA Tech Architect - Selenium Webdriver / Katalon Studio (Chennai)
🏢 Unidos Technology
📍 Chennai