Quality Engineering Architect, SDET

The SDET/ Quality Engineering (QE) Architect will be a technical guru and leader in our growing Corcentric Quality team. They will help to build the DNA of a technical Quality Engineering team through transformational vision and execution by mentoring, collaborating, influencing, and leading by example.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and evolve the Quality platform, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices, tools and frameworks.
• Partner with QE, Development and Ops, leadership to achieve quality excellence, address tech debts in Quality Engineering, set the bar for quality of quality and keep raising it.
• Identify the top opportunities - in the processes, tools, the infrastructure, the skills and help improve constantly to achieve highest product quality
• Set the vision for scalable, efficient, and effective automation.
• Design, oversee, validate and sign-off the test and automation approaches of the team
• Partner development, Ops architects to create the best tooling solutions for holistic quality

• Work closely with software development team and product management to ensure quality of software and applications.
• Participate in release planning activities, support team members with estimates and risk analysis for the new features.
• Mentor and nurture QA team members for their technical scaling, as well as outside contract / remote testers.
• Operate in a fast-paced environment working while managing change and ambiguity of evolving requests.

• BS / MS degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of professional experience working in a product development environment.
• Experienced in architecting, designing, developing tools in the space of development, testing, deployment etc.
• Possess leadership and communications skills with the ability to work cross-functionally.
• Experience having transformed QA/QE organizations to SDET/DevOps.
• Possess an understanding and experience with different type of software testing approaches:
  • front-end, back-end, white box, functional / non-functional, performance / stress, smoke, static, etc.
• Have hands-on experience writing unit tests and automation using TDD, BDD, or similar.
• Have working knowledge of many or all of these: Selenium, JMeter, Graylog, Splunk, Dynatrace, Jira, Git, and other DevOps tools
• Expert in at least one development language and proficient with multiple.
• Experience working with complex development stacks and able to develop and test at all levels.
• Experience with design and development of automation frameworks and being able to represent quality function during feature design.
• Experience building, maintaining, enhancing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with cloud computing and technologies (AWS Stack highly desirable).
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Possess effective analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Possess a firm understanding of software development lifecycle, processes, and methodologies.
• Prior people management experience is a big plus.