Automation Architect

TechDigital Group; Englewood Cliffs (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Quality Engineering Lead to drive innovation in automated testing and performance engineering. This role involves providing leadership within the quality engineering organization, developing automation frameworks, and optimizing testing processes across agile teams. You'll collaborate closely with engineering teams to implement best practices and improve CI/CD pipelines, ensuring high-quality deliverables. If you are passionate about quality assurance and eager to mentor others while making a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you. Join a dynamic team that values your expertise and fosters professional growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software engineering with a focus on QE testing and automation.
• Experience in performance and security testing is essential.
• Proficient in implementing automation frameworks and tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engineering efforts and define best practices for testing.
• Develop automation roadmaps and frameworks across agile teams.
• Mentor and train quality engineers to enhance team capabilities.

Skills

Java

Quality Engineering (QE) testing

Automation frameworks

Performance testing

Security testing

Agile methodologies

Education

B.S degree in computer science

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

JMeter

Rest Assured Framework

JIRA

Jenkins

TestRail

GIT

New Relic

Datadog

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and technical expertise within quality engineering organization
• Define & incorporate best practices of the security testing and performance engineering
• Develop automation roadmap across agile teams
• Automation framework design and implementation
• Analyze and improve the existing frameworks and recommend right tools and frameworks
• Test automation and optimization solution aims at disrupting inefficient and old-world QA procedures by providing tools, solutions and frameworks that works across domains
• Enable agile teams to perform continuous testing, work to measure and improve any inefficiency in CI/CD pipelines
• Integrate performance & security with automation framework
• Knowledge Management/Retention - Cross training & documentation
• Help hire/build strong quality engineering teams
• Mentoring and training quality engineers & leads
• Building key test infrastructure that allows them to capture data, analyze it and provide guidance to their teams around perceived risks and a mitigation strategy
• Provide inputs to define quality standards as well as enforcing technical and testing standards
• Define/improve quality & performance engineering process, KPIs & metrics
• Conduct reviews and ensure process compliance
• Publish quality & performance engineering KPIs & metrics
• Partner with engineering teams to propose, rollout process improvements, new technologies and automation practices
• Work both independently and in close collaboration with platform & application teams and across the business to drive automation & bring efficiencies
• Onsite - Offshore co-ordination, as required

Requirements

• B.S degree or higher in computer science or related education

• 5+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE testing on various platforms
• 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering - QE automation
• 3+ yrs. of experience in software engineering – Performance testing
• 2+ yrs. of experience in software engineering – Security testing

• Must be proficient in Java
• Must have experience implementing automation frameworks – (Selenium WebDriver/ webDriver IO/Appium/TestNG/Junit)
• Must have experience with performance testing tools to measure server & client-side metrics( Jmeter/K6/Speedcurve)
• Must have experience implementing API frameworks – Rest Assured Framework /Pactumjs
• Must have experience setting up and managing test automation infrastructure ( Appium/Selenium grid)
• Must have experience using Version control (GIT), SQL, CI/CD Tools (Jenkins), Build Tools (Maven, ANT, etc), Debugging Tools (Charles/Fiddler), Monitoring tools (New Relic/Datadog), Agile Management Tool (JIRA), Test Management Tool (TestRail)
• Any certification related to QE/Process/Automation/Performance Test/Security
• Nice to have knowledge/experience on NodeJS/JavaScript/TypeScript.