QE Architect / Lead

Capgemini America, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work

Healthcare including dental, vision, &

401(k)

Paid time off & holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

Capgemini America, Inc. is seeking an experienced QE Architect / Lead to drive quality engineering strategy, architecture, and automation transformation across enterprise applications.

This hands-on leadership role defines modern test automation frameworks and elevates engineering standards across multiple teams. The role focuses on designing scalable automation, improving coverage and reliability, and aligning with CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in IT, QA, Quality Engineering, or Test Automation.
• 3 years of experience designing and owning automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience serving as a QE Architect, Automation Architect, Test Architect, or similar leadership role.
• Hands-on expertise with Playwright, Selenium, MABL, Java, Python, or similar automation technologies.
• Strong API, integration, and service-layer test automation experience.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven success reducing automation flakiness and improving automation reliability at scale.
• Experience with enterprise test data management strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead automation initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own enterprise Quality Engineering frameworks across UI, API, service, and data layers.
• Define automation strategies, test coverage models, quality metrics, and testing standards.
• Establish automation baselines and continuously improve coverage, execution speed, stability, and reliability.
• Architect scalable automation solutions integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation maturity and quality transformation initiatives across multiple teams.
• Define and enforce best practices for test automation, code reviews, framework ownership, and reusability.
• Serve as the technical authority and escalation point for automation architecture decisions.
• Partner with development leaders to increase shift-left testing and developer‑owned quality.
• Evaluate tools, processes, and frameworks using measurable outcomes and business value.
• Mentor engineers and influence enterprise‑wide quality engineering practices.

Skills

Leadership

Test automation

Communication

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

MABL

Java

Python

Job description

Work Authorization: Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. Visa sponsorship and transfers are not available.

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced QE Architect / Lead to drive Quality Engineering strategy, architecture, and automation transformation initiatives across enterprise applications. This is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for defining and implementing modern test automation frameworks, establishing engineering standards, and driving automation maturity across multiple teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own enterprise Quality Engineering frameworks across UI, API, service, and data layers.
• Define automation strategies, test coverage models, quality metrics, and testing standards.
• Establish automation baselines and continuously improve coverage, execution speed, stability, and reliability.
• Architect scalable automation solutions integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive automation maturity and quality transformation initiatives across multiple teams.
• Define and enforce best practices for test automation, code reviews, framework ownership, and reusability.
• Serve as the technical authority and escalation point for automation architecture decisions.
• Partner with development leaders to increase shift-left testing and developer‑owned quality.
• Evaluate tools, processes, and frameworks using measurable outcomes and business value.
• Mentor engineers and influence enterprise‑wide quality engineering practices.

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in IT, QA, Quality Engineering, or Test Automation.
• 3 years of experience designing and owning automation frameworks from scratch.
• Experience serving as a QE Architect, Automation Architect, Test Architect, or similar leadership role.
• Hands‑on expertise with Playwright, Selenium, MABL, Java, Python, or similar automation technologies.
• Strong API, integration, and service‑layer test automation experience.
• Experience implementing automated testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven success reducing automation flakiness and improving automation reliability at scale.
• Experience with enterprise test data management strategies.
• Demonstrated ability to lead automation initiatives across multiple teams and organizations.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Financial Services, Insurance, Banking, or other highly regulated industry experience.
• Experience with service virtualization and dependency mocking.
• Cloud‑native testing environments and modern test infrastructure.
• Accessibility testing experience.
• Quality maturity assessments and transformation initiatives.

Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to help shape enterprise testing strategy, drive large‑scale automation transformation, and influence engineering excellence across a complex technology landscape.

About Capgemini

Capgemini is an AI‑powered global business and technology transformation partner, delivering tangible business value. We imagine the future of organizations and make it real with AI, technology and people. With our strong heritage of nearly 60 years, we are a responsible and diverse group of 420,000 team members in more than 50 countries. We deliver end‑to‑end services and solutions with our deep industry expertise and strong partner ecosystem, leveraging our capabilities across strategy, technology, design, engineering and business operations. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion. Make it real |

Life at Capgemini

For eligible employees, we offer:

• Flexible work
• Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well‑being programs
• Financial well‑being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
• Paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
• Social well‑being benefits like subsidized back‑up child/elder care and tutoring
• Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
• Employee Resource Groups
• Disaster Relief