Lead Quality Architect & Automation Strategist

Pearson; Montgomery (AL); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. You will provide domain-level quality leadership, influence automation strategies, and mentor senior QA engineers across multiple Agile teams.

This role emphasizes end-to-end testing, reliability, and release confidence in a distributed QA environment. As a domain SME, you will shape quality practices, review critical QA work, and contribute hands-on testing where impact is greatest, while communicating with

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional quality engineering or test automation experience.
• 3+ years operating as a domain-level quality expert across complex distributed platforms.
• Demonstrated influence on quality practices, automation frameworks, or standards.
• Deep experience with test automation strategy, tooling, and quality improvement.
• Experience in large product environments with multiple Agile teams and QA teams.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for ExamDeveloper quality system across domains.
• Partner with Product Architect and Engineering leadership on long-term automation strategy.
• Drive improvements to testing automation, efficiency, and release confidence.
• Establish quality metrics for automation health, test reliability, and defect leakage.
• Lead as domain SME on quality, automation approaches, and critical test scenarios.
• Develop and maintain robust test coverage across domain apps.
• Provide expert root-cause analysis for reliability challenges.

Skills

Automation architecture

Quality strategy

Reliability

Test tooling

Scripting

OOP programming

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based testing

Cloud testing

Azure/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS or equivalent

Tools

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based test execution

Cloud testing infrastructure

Azure/Kubernetes

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. You will provide domain-level quality leadership, influence automation strategies, and mentor senior QA engineers across multiple Agile teams.

This role emphasizes end-to-end testing, reliability, and release confidence in a distributed QA environment. As a domain SME, you will shape quality practices, review critical QA work, and contribute hands-on testing where impact is greatest, while communicating with