Test Architect

Experience

12+ years of experience in Test Automation, SDET, Quality Engineering, or Test Architecture.

Role Summary

We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Architect to define and drive the automation and Quality Engineering strategy across products and teams. The role combines automation architecture, framework design, CI/CD integration, RHEL platform testing and security/compliance validation, cloud/container testing, and technical leadership.

Automation Architecture + Quality Engineering Strategy + Platform Security & Compliance + Technical Leadership + Hands-on Technical Guidance

The role is expected to provide architecture and technical direction while remaining sufficiently hands-on in framework design, POCs, troubleshooting, and critical automation solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Define Test Automation / Quality Engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmap.
• Design and implement scalable, reusable, enterprise-level test automation frameworks.
• Drive automation across UI, API, integration, regression, end-to-end, and platform testing.
• Define automation architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and reusable components.
• Lead integration of automated testing with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Drive automation across RHEL, Azure, Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Define and drive RHEL platform validation, security testing, hardening validation, and compliance testing strategies.
• Define automation approaches for platform security controls and security compliance requirements.
• Provide technical direction and conduct architecture/code reviews for automation solutions.
• Develop and review automation using Python, Playwright/Selenium, Shell, and Java.
• Define strategies for test data, environment management, parallel execution, reporting, scalability, and distributed test execution.
• Improve automation coverage, reliability, execution time, maintainability, security validation, compliance coverage, and ROI.
• Drive shift-left testing and security/quality engineering practices across the SDLC.
• Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis of complex automation, platform, security, and environment issues.
• Define and track quality and automation metrics such as coverage, automation effectiveness, execution time, defect leakage, security coverage, and compliance status.
• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Security, Platform, Architecture, Product, and QA teams.
• Evaluate and introduce new automation tools, frameworks, security-validation approaches, and technologies.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and Gemini for test generation, automation, debugging, security validation, and productivity.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and Technical Leads.

• Define reference architectures and reusable automation patterns for application, platform, security, and compliance testing.
• Assess existing frameworks and drive automation modernization and transformation.
• Establish automation standards and best practices across teams.
• Define the right balance of UI, API, integration, service-level, platform, and security automation.
• Define an automation strategy for RHEL platform security and security compliance validation.
• Establish reusable approaches for validating RHEL hardening, security configurations, vulnerabilities, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Drive reduction of manual testing through automation, including security and compliance validation.
• Evaluate tools/frameworks based on scalability, reliability, maintainability, execution speed, security capabilities, and cost.
• Provide technical direction across multiple QA/engineering teams.
• Review automation architecture, test strategy, code, technical designs, and security/compliance validation approaches.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement in quality, automation maturity, platform security validation, compliance coverage, and engineering productivity.

• 12+ years of strong Test Automation / SDET / Quality Engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-scale automation frameworks.
• Strong hands-on expertise in Python, Playwright/Selenium, API automation, and Jenkins.
• Strong working knowledge of RHEL/Linux platforms, including platform configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and system-level validation.
• Strong understanding of RHEL platform security, security hardening, secure configurations, access controls, and vulnerability validation.
• Experience with security compliance testing and validation for enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines and implementing automated quality/security gates.
• Strong understanding of test strategy, automation architecture, test design, and Quality Engineering.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills across application, platform, security, and environment issues.
• Proven experience driving automation transformation and standardization.
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder-management skills.
• Experience defining or implementing platform security and compliance automation is highly desirable.