QA Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design, document, and implement test automation frameworks and strategies for new systems, enhancements, and modifications.
• Define and implement QA architecture, ensuring test solutions are scalable, maintainable, and reusable across products.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to define quality requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Develop test strategy and specifications, and lead automation implementation across functional, regression, API, and performance testing.
• Architect and own CI/CD test integration, ensuring automated tests run reliably within build/deploy pipelines.
• Establish release governance frameworks, including risk-based validation, release readiness gates, and production sign-off for critical releases.
• Drive test coverage, quality metrics, and defect trends, and report on product quality health to leadership through executive-level dashboards.
• Evaluate and implement automation tools and frameworks (e. g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium) suited to the tech stack.
• Explore and implement GenAI/AI-driven testing approaches (e. g., AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, intelligent impact analysis) to improve testing efficiency and coverage.
• Design and validate testing strategies for event-driven and asynchronous systems (message queues, caching layers, distributed services).
• Lead security-focused testing, including vulnerability assessments aligned with OWASP standards.
• Integrate observability tooling into quality pipelines to support real-time monitoring and quality gates.
• Stay current with QA/automation industry trends and emerging tools, recommending adoption where relevant.
• Mentor and train QA engineers, and define organisation-wide automation standards and best practices.

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with a strong focus on test automation architecture and strategy.
• Proven experience designing and scaling automation frameworks from scratch (UI, API, and/or mobile).
• Strong hands-on experience with automation tools: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, or similar.
• Experience with API testing/automation tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or similar, and RESTful web services.
• Proficiency in scripting/programming for test automation: JavaScript/Node.js, Python, or similar.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar).
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Git.
• Experience with performance/load testing tools (JMeter, k6 Gatling) is a plus.
• Good command of cloud infrastructure: AWS (preferred), MS Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Familiarity with test management tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, HP ALM/QC, or TestRail.
• Exposure to testing event-driven/asynchronous systems (e. g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and NoSQL data layers is a plus.
• Working knowledge of security/penetration testing practices (OWASP Top 10 tools like Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP) is a plus.
• Experience with observability tooling (e. g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for quality monitoring is a plus.
• Exposure to GenAI-driven testing or AI-agent-based automation (e. g., RAG-based test intelligence, self-healing frameworks) is a strong plus.
• Strong understanding of software design patterns, architecture principles, and Agile methodologies.
• Experience working closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Development teams.
• Ability to mentor and train QA engineers at scale, and define organisation-wide automation standards.
• Strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in a fast-paced start-up culture.