PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT - PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

Happiest Minds Technologies; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,500,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services company is looking for a Principal Architect with over 20 years of experience in Quality Engineering to define and implement quality strategies and lead a cohesive team. The ideal candidate has strong expertise in Test Automation, AI/ML, and Agile QE processes, and will work closely with customer stakeholders to drive quality excellence. This is a full-time position based in Bengaluru, Karnataka.

Qualifications

• 20+ years of experience in Quality Engineering.
• Experience in building QE solutions with a consultative approach.
• Strong background in managing distributed agile teams.

Responsibilities

• Define Quality Strategy for modern architectures.
• Conceptualize and implement QE Platform.
• Act as Single Point of Contact for customer organizations.

Skills

Quality Engineering in driving End to End engagements

Test Automation covering UI, API and Data Streaming

Exposure to AI/ML, GenAI, building PoCs

Sound knowledge of LLMs and configurations

Prompt Engineering experience

Innovation mindset in building tools

Hands-on experience with Playwright

Data Engineering and Python

Agile QE Process understanding

Managing large QE teams

Job description

PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT - PRINCIPAL ARCHITECT

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Happiest Minds is looking for a seasoned QE Architect with 20+ years experience to build next‑generation QE solutions delivering exceptional value and customer experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Define Quality Strategy for evolving modern architectures
• Conceptualize, Design and Implement QE Platform aligning to customers quality needs in consultative mode
• Ensure solution alignment to performance, reliability, security and privacy requirements
• Single Point of Contact to work with Sr. Solution Architect in customer organization
• Collaborate with customer stakeholders to understand Application architectures, transformation roadmap and proactively align QE strategy
• Measure and Articulate Value delivered through QE
• Bring thought leadership in terms of industry trends, latest innovation in QE relevant for customers domain
• Explore potential of leveraging GenAI and Agentic AI in QE

Build cohesive and fungible QE Team with futuristic tech skills relevant to customer requirements

Primary Skills

• Holistic experience in Quality Engineering in driving End to End engagements
• Strong experience in Test Automation covering UI, API and Data Streaming across Functional, Non-Functional and Compliances
• Exposure to AI/ML, GenAI and experience in building PoCs around QE use cases using Copilot, Cursor.AI. Experience in building Agents would be added advantage
• Sound knowledge and understanding of LLMs (OpenAI, Claude) and configurations
• Prompt Engineering and experience in working with MCP
• Innovation mindset with experience in building tools, frameworks and accelerators
• Hands‑on experience in one of the leading Test Automation Tools e.g. Playwright
• Experience in Data Engineering, Python and Cloud preferably AWS
• Thorough understanding of Agile QE Process and Maturity Frameworks like TMMi
• Managed large QE teams from technical perspectives operating in distributed agile model
• Knowledge and working experience in media & advertising domain especially on digital platforms will be added advantage

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Full‑time

Job Function

• Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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