Quality Engineering Architect

Entri Jobs; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 5,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Entri Jobs is seeking a Quality Engineering Architect to define the enterprise QE strategy across banking platforms. You will design scalable test architectures, automation frameworks, API and contract testing standards, and CI/CD quality gates to ensure high-quality, resilient software delivery in regulated Banking environments.

This hands-on technical leadership role requires contributing to automation framework development, writing production-quality code, mentoring teams, and driving

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in Quality Engineering, QA Automation or test architecture.
• Proven ability to design scalable automation frameworks and reusable QE platforms.
• Experience delivering audit-ready release evidence and end-to-end traceability.
• Strong API testing, API automation, and contract testing expertise with Karate, Pact, Specmatic, WireMock, or equivalents.
• Hands-on with Playwright or Selenium and modern automation frameworks.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-native testing approaches.
• Banking Payments or transaction processing experience preferred.
• CI/CD integration experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Quality Engineering roadmap and define testing standards, frameworks, governance, and best practices.
• Lead scheme conformance and regulatory testing for Banking Payments and Banking Applications-based integrations.
• Design and build API-first and contract-first automation frameworks using Karate, Pact, Specmatic, WireMock, Rest Assured, or equivalents.
• Drive workflow-level testing for orchestration platforms (Temporal, Camunda, Conductor, or equivalents).
• Establish testing strategies for event-driven, asynchronous, and distributed payment workflows.
• Define test data management strategies for regulated environments including synthetic data generation and masking.
• Implement release evidence automation and end-to-end traceability (Requirements -> Test Cases -> Executions -> Defects).
• Define security testing practices and integrate DevSecOps quality controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive AI-assisted QE through intelligent test generation, regression optimization, and self-healing automation.
• Mentor QE teams and collaborate with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Business units.

Skills

Quality Engineering leadership

Test architecture design

Strategic QE planning

Stakeholder management

Automation strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Karate

Pact

Specmatic

WireMock

Rest Assured

Playwright/Selenium

Testcontainers

JMeter

Gatling

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

The Quality Engineering Architect will define and drive the enterprise Quality Engineering strategy across banking and payment platforms. This role is responsible for designing scalable test architectures, automation frameworks, API and contract testing standards, workflow-level validation, performance and security testing practices, AI-enabled Quality Engineering capabilities, and CI/CD quality gates to ensure high-quality, resilient, compliant, and scalable software delivery.

With a strong focus on regulated Banking and Financial Services environments, the role emphasizes scheme conformance, ISO 20022 alignment, audit-ready compliance evidence, and engineering excellence.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. The architect is expected to actively contribute to automation framework development, write production-quality code, mentor engineering teams, and drive enterprise-wide Quality Engineering transformation.

Responsibilities

• Own the enterprise Quality Engineering roadmap and define testing standards, frameworks, governance models, and engineering best practices.
• Lead scheme conformance and regulatory compliance testing for Banking Payments and Banking Applications - based integrations.
• Design and build API-first and contract-first automation frameworks using tools such as Karate, Pact, Specmatic, WireMock, Rest Assured, or equivalent.
• Drive workflow-level testing for orchestration platforms (Temporal, Camunda, Conductor, or equivalent), covering replay validation, determinism, compensation, and idempotency.
• Establish testing strategies for event-driven, asynchronous, and distributed payment workflows.
• Design and maintain container-based integration testing environments using Testcontainers or equivalent technologies.
• Define test data management strategies for regulated environments, including synthetic data generation, masking, and privacy-safe provisioning.
• Implement release evidence automation and end-to-end traceability (Requirements -> Test Cases -> Executions -> Defects) to support audit readiness and regulatory compliance.
• Define security testing practices and integrate DevSecOps quality controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Define performance, scalability, resilience, and reliability testing strategies for production-scale payment systems.
• Integrate automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and establish release readiness criteria.
• Drive AI-assisted Quality Engineering by leveraging intelligent test generation, regression optimization, self-healing automation, flaky test detection, and change-impact-based test selection.
• Evaluate emerging Quality Engineering technologies and continuously improve engineering practices across the organization.
• Mentor Quality Engineers and provide technical leadership across automation, API testing, workflow validation, compliance testing, and engineering excellence.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and Business teams to embed quality throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Architecture, or QA Automation with demonstrated ownership of enterprise Quality Engineering strategy.
• Experience designing scalable automation frameworks and reusable Quality Engineering platforms.
• Experience implementing end-to-end traceability and producing audit-ready release evidence.
• Strong understanding of quality governance, risk-based testing, defect prevention, and release quality management.
• Strong expertise in API testing, API automation, and contract testing, with hands-on experience in tools such as Karate, Pact, Specmatic, WireMock, Rest Assured, or equivalent.
• Experience with Playwright or equivalent (Selenium) modern automation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of microservices, distributed systems, and event-driven/asynchronous architectures, including experience testing workflow orchestration platforms (Temporal, Camunda, Conductor, or equivalent) for replay, determinism, compensation, and idempotency.
• Experience with Testcontainers or equivalent container-based integration testing approaches.
• Experience defining and executing performance, scalability, resilience, and load testing using JMeter, Gatling, or equivalent tools.
• Experience with security testing methodologies, DevSecOps practices, and strong SQL/database validation skills.
• Strong experience in Banking Payments, payment processing platforms, or transaction processing systems.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, or equivalent platforms.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, containerized applications, and cloud-native testing.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in C#/.NET (preferred) or Java using xUnit/NUnit, JUnit, or equivalent testing frameworks.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field is typically expected for this level of architectural role.

Skills

API Testing, Automation Frameworks, CI/CD, Docker, Java, Kubernetes, Performance testing, Test Architecture, ISO 20022, Security Testing, AI-assisted Testing, C#/.NET

Experience

10–15 years