Senior Automation Architect

Summary of the Senior Automation Architect

The senior automation architect is responsible for designing and developing automated testing frameworks and test scripts that will allow an organization to automate its processes. They work with company leadership, departmental stakeholders, and IT departments to see the holes in an automation process before it starts. Automation architects need to be familiar with technology, but they also need an understanding of workflow, industry, and business parameters. Their goal is to streamline systems and make them more effective, oftentimes under tight budget and timeline restrictions.

This role will also integrate the framework into CI/CD pipelines. Due to the complexity of the applications under test, this role will need to have a working level knowledge of Java, .Net, and Python. Additionally, this role is responsible for working with database technologies such as Oracle and SQL Server.

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