Quality Architect

Description

• Define and maintain the overall test architecture and automation framework across applications and platforms.
• Conduct quality-focused reviews and assessments to ensure alignment with organizational goals.
• Provides oversight for contracting teams to evaluate and assure effective use of resources.
• Ensure testing data/content relevancy, security, privacy, and compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.
• Directs activities that have significant impact on the achievement of results for the area
• Focuses on operational plans with short- to mid-term impact on the organization (e.g., 1– 2 years).
• Owns and develops strategic and operational goals for area of expertise.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to development teams on testing and automation best practices.
• Typically, responsible for managing large, complex project initiatives of strategic importance to the company, involving large cross-functional teams.
• Drive adoption of modern testing practices such as contract testing, chaos engineering, performance profiling, and AI-assisted testing.
• Recommends and implements new products, processes, policies, standards or operating plans in support of area’s strategy and operations.
• Create reusable automation assets, frameworks, toolkits, and libraries to streamline development team productivity.
• Establish governance frameworks and standards for system quality and consistency.
• Frequently responsible for providing guidance, coaching and training to other employees across the organization within area of expertise.
• Design and promote shift-left and shift-right quality practices, including early defect detection, observability, and production monitoring.
• Contribute to the organization's enterprise quality strategy, including adoption plans, design principles, and best practices.
• Optimize system performance, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Establish KPIs, quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting to measure effectiveness of testing and automation strategies.
• Develop and enforce standardized quality engineering patterns, processes, and architectural guidelines across teams.

Requirements

• Requires mastery level knowledge of level area typically obtained through advanced education combined with experience.
• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• May have deep knowledge of project and program management.
• Minimum high school diploma or equivalent (GED) required.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance