Automation Architect

Responsibilities for the QE Sr Automation Architect

• Design enterprise capable automation frameworks
• Review current automation frameworks and prepare a list of improvements and upgrades
• Design a new API automation framework
• Track and build plans for the automation teams on how/when to implement automation improvements
• Where no automation exists, build a plan for creating an automation strategy
• Train automation team on coding and development best practices
• Design an automation framework for back-end automation using database queries, scripts, and tools outside of the application UI
• Build a future state automation framework within AWS
• Build and maintain an enterprise level test data management strategy and framework
• Focus on lessons learned’ for continuous process improvement
• Design and implement a performance testing strategy
• Integrate all frameworks into Sonarqube for code quality analysis

Qualifications of the QE Sr Automation Architect

• Master’s Degree in computer related field or equal work experience
• 6 years of developing, maintaining and ensuring quality of a web application using a variety of automated testing tools. 8 years of this experience is preferred
• Working level knowledge of Python, Java, and .Net

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities of the QE Sr Automation Architect

• Experience using and building test automation tools for functional, load and performance testing
• Experience developing automated tests in an environment such as Selenium, using an Object-Oriented approach for web-based applications
• Experience with Software as a Service (SaaS) web-application environments
• Strong knowledge of writing and executing SQL queries to use in database testing
• Hands-on experience with testing large scale web sites and web services
• Familiar with Unit Testing and how it integrates into the overall automation strategy
• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines
• Experience in the QA lifecycle as evidenced by ability to articulate the QA process as well as tangible outputs like test plans, test scripts, bug reports, etc.
• Excellent communication, organizational, problem solving, risk analysis, and decision-making skills
• Ability to clearly explain findings effectively with strong technical writing skills
• Be a proactive individual that exhibit initiative within a scrum team environment
• Expert level knowledge integrating automation frameworks in CI/CD pipelines
• Working level knowledge of AWS with the ability to build infrastructure used for automation and performance testing
• Masterful knowledge of coding best practices
• Ability to create a layered strategy that takes into account all levels of testing
• Ability to design an automation strategy based around the test pyramid
• Knowledge of containers and how to build an automation infrastructure leveraging Docker or other container solutions
• Knowledge of AI tools and capabilities that could enhance testing approaches and automation frameworks
• Knowledge of performance testing tools
• Working level knowledge of Sonarqube
• Strong knowledge of security testing and how to integrate security testing into automation