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Help redefine how quality is engineered. We're looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Architect to lead the next generation of test automation and AI-enabled quality engineering. In this role, you'll help shape technical strategy, evaluate emerging technologies, and build scalable solutions that elevate software quality across our platforms while advancing engineering excellence across CFA Institute.
The Senior Quality Engineering Architect serves as a technical authority for test automation and AI-led quality engineering across one or more platform portfolios. This role designs and governs scalable Playwright/TypeScript automation frameworks, leads proof-of-concepts for native AI in quality engineering, and serves as a senior technical resource and mentor across the Quality Engineering function.
Operating with significant autonomy on framework architecture, the Senior QE Architect evaluates tooling and patterns, makes build-vs-buy recommendations, and influences technical direction across teams. While primarily an individual-contributor role, the Senior QE Architect provides technical oversight to a mix of full-time engineers and managed-service contractors and is accountable for the quality of automation work delivered across both staffing models.
This position may be based in approved jurisdictions in the United States or India and is eligible for flexible working arrangements including remote/hybrid. It reports to the Senior Manager, Quality Engineering or the Director, Quality Engineering as needed.
What You'll Do

• Design and govern enterprise-grade Playwright/TypeScript automation frameworks - page objects, fixtures, reporters, CI integration, and intelligent test execution.
• Evaluate test automation frameworks, tools, and patterns; make build-vs-buy recommendations and drive consistency across teams.
• Lead proof-of-concepts for AI-driven test generation, autonomous test maintenance, intelligent defect triage, and agentic testing; translate experiments into production-grade adoption playbooks.
• Design AI integration points across the QE stack - self-healing locators, prompt-driven test generation, LLM evaluation pipelines (e.g., Ragas, DeepEval, Promptfoo, LangSmith, Giskard), and RAG/MCP for test data and tooling.
• Serve as the senior technical voice that engineers escalate to for framework, architecture, and tooling decisions; resolve technical debt at the architectural level.
• Mentor automation engineers across all levels; run technical brown bags, code reviews, and capability-building sessions.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance for work delivered by a mix of full-time engineers and managed-service contractors.
• Partner with engineering, DevSecOps, platform, and product teams to embed quality at the architectural layer.
• Establish responsible AI governance for AI-led QE practices, including evaluation standards, prompt-quality criteria, and model-output reliability.

What You'll Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with deep technical individual-contributor track experience.
• Proven framework architect with a track record of designing and shipping enterprise-grade Playwright/TypeScript or comparable automation frameworks adopted by multiple teams.
• Hands-on technical depth across UI, API, mobile, intelligent test execution, performance, and accessibility testing - writes code daily.
• Strong AI fluency - LLM-assisted test generation, AI model quality evaluation, prompt engineering, agentic workflows, RAG and MCP concepts; experience with LLM evaluation tooling (e.g., Ragas, DeepEval, Promptfoo, LangSmith, Giskard) preferred.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical oversight to a mix of full-time engineers and managed-service contractors.
• Track record mentoring engineers across all levels with measurable impact on team capability.
• Comfort with ambiguity, a builder mindset, and the ability to translate experiments into production patterns.

At this time, CFA Institute cannot provide sponsorship. No agencies, please.
At CFA Institute, we are committed to transparency and equity in our hiring process. In compliance with wage transparency laws in many of the jurisdictions in which we recruit, we provide the following information regarding compensation for this position: Expected salary range: $120,000-$160,000 per year. All salary ranges are subject to adjustment based on experience, education, and other factors relevant to the position such as location. Additional benefits include eligibility for an annual incentive bonus, a 12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan, and a comprehensive medical benefits package.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package to support our employees, including health coverage, generous time off, competitive retirement plans, flexible work options, and wellbeing and development programs. You can learn more on our careers site: Working at CFA Institute | Comprehensive Benefits
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