Full Description

Title: Principal Test Automation Architect

Location: Remote - Must work PST hours

Duration: 12+ Months

This person’s time will be split between leading the automation day to day efforts and contributing hands on to build out the automation solutions. He/she will be the strongest technical member we have on the automation team and so they need to be able to solve challenging technical problems, design the overall solutions, and provide guidance to the other team members.

What this person will be doing (25% leading/guiding, 75% hands on)

• Providing testing leadership and guidance by architecting testing solutions and helping to resolve complex technical problems and challenges.
• Developing innovative approaches, techniques, and solutions in the areas of Quality Engineering, Automation, CI/CD, etc.
• Lead multiple automation efforts and influencing others to adopt best practices when applicable.
• Providing estimates, solution design, test design, and strategies for upcoming projects
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams including application SMEs, domain architects, Project Managers, Cyber, Infrastructure and other subject matter experts. Requires coming up to speed rapidly with the SCE organization and key stakeholders.
• Analyze how systems are being tested manually and identify opportunities to reduce that time and effort through test automation.
• Design and develop robust automated tests for desktop applications, APIs, shell scripts, and databases to address business and technical use cases.
• Maintain, support, and extend our in house automation framework and automation suites
• Design comprehensive approaches and set up process standards for ensuring the quality, scalability, and maintainability of test automation tools and frameworks.
• Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards the root cause identification and resolution.

The essentials

• 10+ years of hands on experience designing, building and maintaining test automation solutions across multiple platforms using a variety of tools and frameworks.
• Highly proficient in testing and building test automation for desktop applications, APIs, packaged applications, and custom applications
• Advanced knowledge in testing strategies, test automation approaches, and how to design mature automation frameworks
• 7+ years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.