Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect

Archer; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 355,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer, in collaboration with Oracle, seeks a Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect to modernize testing across on-prem and cloud. You will assess tools, remove redundancies, and design a secure, compliant, cost-efficient platform that improves reliability and velocity.

You will lead an enterprise assessment, define a target-state architecture and roadmap, and build governance with dashboards and playbooks to enable large testing teams while ensuring security and privacy guardrails.

Qualifications

• 10–15 years in quality engineering or software architecture.
• Experience leading large enterprise testing transformations.
• Deep expertise in functional, stress testing at scale.
• Strong CI/CD experience across on-prem and major clouds.
• Solid knowledge of security and compliance controls in pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise assessment; define a target-state architecture and roadmap.
• Rationalize tooling and eliminate redundant testing across teams.
• Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, triage, and environment stability.
• Build a scalable test platform and integrate security/compliance controls into CI/CD.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance; enable teams through playbooks.
• Communicate outcomes and ROI to leadership; guide teams through adoption.

Skills

QE/Architecture

Functional testing

Stress testing

Performance testing

CI/CD

Security & compliance

AI/ML in testing

Stakeholder management

Tools

SAST/DAST/IAST

Observability tools

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Oracle to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

About The Team

Serve as the Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect for testing across functional, stress, and performance domains. Lead a structured assessment of existing tools, infrastructure, and processes across on-prem and cloud. Eliminate redundant testing, rationalize tooling, and architect scalable, secure solutions that improve quality, reduce cycle time and cost, and align with corporate security and compliance standards. Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, selection, triage, and environment stability while maintaining strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails across on-prem and cloud.

Description

About the role: We’re seeking a Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect to partner with our functional, stress, and performance testing teams to modernize and scale our enterprise testing approach across on-prem and cloud. You will assess existing tools and processes, remove redundancies, and architect secure, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions that improve reliability and velocity.

What You’ll Do

• Lead an enterprise assessment; define a target-state architecture and roadmap.
• Rationalize tooling and eliminate redundant testing across teams.
• Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, selection, triage, and environment stability while maintaining strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails across on-prem and cloud.
• Build a scalable test platform and integrate security/compliance controls into CI/CD.
• Standardize performance and stress testing practices aligned to SLOs.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance; enable teams through playbooks and consulting.

What You’ll Bring

• 10–15 years in QE/architecture; success leading large-scale testing transformations.
• Deep experience in functional, stress, and performance testing.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

• Enterprise discovery and assessment
  • Map current test practices, tools, environments, and data flows across teams and products (on-prem and cloud).
  • Quantify redundancy, flakiness, coverage gaps, runtime hotspots, and security/compliance gaps.
  • Align on requirements with QA, Dev, Program Management, Security, and Compliance.
• Tooling and process rationalization
  • Create a consolidation plan for overlapping tools and duplicated test suites; recommend standard frameworks and patterns per test layer.
  • Define exit criteria and migration paths; minimize disruption while improving signal quality.
• Strategy and Roadmap
  • Define an AI/Ml roadmap for quality engineering working with teams; prioritize use cases, data sources, required guardrails and ROI
• Target-state architecture
  • Design a scalable test platform supporting functional, stress testing: parallelization, epoxy environments, environment orchestration, and self-service test data services.
• Quality and security by design
  • Integrate quality gates, SAST/DAST/IAST into CI/CD for both on-prem and cloud deployments.
  • Establish compliant test data strategies (masking, synthetic generation, retention, residency).
• Governance, metrics, and enablement
  • Stand up dashboards and evidence trails for audit readiness.
  • Create playbooks, golden paths, and training to enable large testing teams; provide hands‑on consulting and reviews.
• Change leadership
  • Build a cross-functional working group; sequence pilots and incremental rollouts.
  • Communicate outcomes and ROI to leadership; guide teams through adoption.

Required Qualifications

• 10–15 years in quality engineering or software architecture, with 5 years consulting or leading large enterprise testing transformations.
• Demonstrated success rationalizing tools and eliminating redundant testing across multiple large teams.
• Deep expertise in functional, stress testing at scale, including methodologies, workload modeling, and environment design.
• Strong CI/CD experience across on-prem and major clouds.
• Solid knowledge of security and compliance controls integrated into pipelines (SAST/DAST/IAST, secrets hygiene, SBOM/signing, license compliance).
• Proficiency with observability (metrics/logs/traces), service virtualization, and test data management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and change enablement across matrixed orgs.

Nice-to-have

• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and data/streaming performance testing.
• Experience and or knowledge of AI tools available for testing enterprise scale software.

Qualifications

Disclaimer: Certain U.S. based or U.S. customer or client-facing roles may be required to comply with applicable requirements, such as immunization/occupational health mandates, and/or drug testing requirements.

Range and benefit information provided in this posting are specific to the stated locations only

US: Hiring Range in USD from: $169,800 to $355,400 per annum. May be eligible for bonus, equity, and compensation deferral.

Oracle maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect Oracle's differing products, industries and lines of business.

Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors as well as internal peer equity.

Oracle US offers a comprehensive benefits package which includes the following:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
• Short term disability and long term disability
• Life insurance and AD&D
• Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
• Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
• 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
• Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
• 11 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
• Paid parental leave
• Adoption assistance
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Financial planning and group legal
• Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance

The role will generally accept applications for at least three calendar days from the posting date or as long as the job remains posted.

Career Level - IC6