Quality Engineering Architect - .NET

As a Quality Engineering Architect (Test Arch), you will design and develop complex quality engineering strategies, architect quality approaches, and improvements across multiple groups/teams. You will define testing scope for complex projects and participate in product design reviews to ensure system testability and overall quality. Experience in testing tools/frameworks and automation solutions is essential for this role.

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop complex quality engineering strategies.
• Architect quality approaches and improvements across multiple groups/teams.
• Define testing scope for complex projects.
• Participate in product design reviews to ensure system testability and overall quality.
• Expected to be an SME.
• Collaborate and manage the team to perform.
• Responsible for team decisions.
• Engage with multiple teams and contribute to key decisions.
• Provide solutions to problems for their immediate team and across multiple teams.
• Lead quality engineering strategy development.
• Implement quality improvements across teams.
• Define the testing scope for projects.
• Investigates, defines, and resolves complex issues.
• Architect and build incremental additions independently and larger solutions with guidance from an architect.
• Understand and fix complex coding issues, including race conditions, cross-threading, and intermittent data issues.
• Take accountability for quality delivery and ongoing maintenance of the software.
• Understand how to and ensure to build performant, scalable code.
• Accountable for all the code produced by the team, regardless of who wrote it.
• Accurately estimate the amount of time a development task will take to complete.
• Liaise with business stakeholders to help build solutions that deliver business value.
• Adopt a security-first approach and produce secure code.
• Diagnose any third-line support enquiries with the responsible products.
• Design, architect, and build code across several new and existing software projects.
• Accountable for ensuring software is delivered according to the company's Software Development Life Cycle procedures, using agreed technology stacks.
• Accountable for ensuring all code produced is performant and tested before being handed for peer review.
• Accountable for providing mentoring to members of the development team.
• Contribute ideas and suggestions to help ensure we are developing code in the best way using the latest technologies. Accountable for providing team members with one-to-one feedback and assisting in appraisals.
• Accountable for completing all the assigned training before the due date.
• Actively participate and encourage others to participate in an Agile SCRUM development methodology, including refinement, planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Having a quality mindset ensures that quality code is produced by you and your team.
• Being accountable for the output of the members of your team and providing an atmosphere of ownership and accountability within the team.
• Designing scalable, robust technical application architectures.
• Peer review and constructive critique of code produced by other members of the development team.
• Working to help improve the software development processes within Digital Innovation.
• Has significant influence over the allocation and management of resources appropriate to given assignments.
• Leads on user/customer and group collaboration throughout all stages of work.
• Ensures users' needs are met consistently through each work stage.
• Builds appropriate and effective business relationships across the organisation and with customers, suppliers, and partners.
• Work includes a broad range of complex technical or professional activities in a variety of contexts.
• Applies, facilitates, and develops creative thinking concepts or finds innovative ways to approach a deliverable
• Communicates fluently, orally and in writing, and can present complex information to both technical and non-technical audiences when engaging with colleagues, users/customers, suppliers and partners.
• Demonstrates an awareness of risk and takes an analytical approach to work, and contributes specialist expertise to requirements definition in support of proposals.
• Learning and professional development contribute to identifying own development opportunities and the development needs of team members.
• Security, privacy, and ethics fully understand the importance and application to their own work and the operation of the organization.

Requirements:

• Experience in one or more testing tools/frameworks and expertise in developing effective automation solutions.
• 10+ years of experience.
• High-level experience with Microsoft. NET / C#, utilizing Microsoft Visual Studio.
• Databases, preferably Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, MySQL, and Azure Cosmos DB.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience in SOLID principles, Design Patterns, Dependency Injection, Unit Testing, Integration Testing using NUnit/xUnit, Understanding of REST web services, Web UI development (including JQuery, React/Angular), Azure (or other cloud) PaaS services (functions, storage, key vault, etc), Azure CI/CD pipelines and Quality Gates., Containerisation (Docker Linux/Windows based).
• Development of distributed and scalable solutions.
• Experience in working with Agile SCRUM development methodology.
• A passion for technology and developing your own technical skills.
• A results-oriented individual with the ability to work to deadlines, communicate, and work effectively with other team members both on-site and remote.
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and manage changing priorities.
• Able to work independently and as part of a team.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Influences the organisation, customers, suppliers, partners, and peers on the contribution of own specialism.
• Able to make decisions which impact the success of assigned work, i. e. results, deadlines, and budget, and creates and supports collaborative ways of working across group/area of responsibility.

Professional and Technical Skills:

• Must Have Skills: Proficiency in. NET Architecture, . NET Full Stack Development, C# Programming Language, Agile Project Management.
• Strong understanding of software testing principles.
• Experience in developing automation solutions.
• Knowledge of testing tools and frameworks.
• Ability to architect quality approaches.
• Should be a good team player.
• Good Written and Verbal Communication skills.
• Good analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Additional Information:

• The candidate should have a minimum of 10 years of experience in. NET Architecture.
• A 15-year full-time education is required.