QE Architecture Lead - Automation, APIs & CI/CD

U.S. Bank; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 98,000 - 116,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Life Insurance

Disability Insurance

Parental Leave

401(k)

Paid Vacation

Holidays

Adoption Assistance

Sick Leave

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking a lead Quality Engineering professional to drive enterprise QE architecture, automation frameworks, and testing strategy for complex, distributed systems.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed quality, automation, performance, and resiliency throughout the SDLC, including microservices and APIs. Strong leadership and hands-on testing toolkit are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years of experience with concepts and tools behind application and information technologies
• 8+ years of experience developing and implementing applications
• Quality Engineering, test automation, or QA architecture experience
• Experience defining enterprise QA/QE strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmaps
• Expertise in API, integration, regression, E2E, performance, and automated testing
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, and release validation
• Experience testing microservices, REST APIs, distributed systems, and high-volume apps
• Hands-on with Playwright, Selenium, Appium, REST Assured, Karate, JMeter, Gatling or k6
• Programming/scripting with Java/Kotlin, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python
• Strong technical leadership and architecture skills; Payments/FinTech and AI-assisted testing a plus

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise QA/QE architecture, strategy, standards, and roadmaps
• Design scalable test automation frameworks across applications, APIs, and integrations
• Develop testing strategies for functional, integration, regression, E2E, performance, and resiliency testing
• Embed automated testing and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
• Review designs for testability, reliability, performance, and scalability
• Drive quality engineering across microservices, APIs, distributed systems, and external integrations
• Partner with developers and architects to embed quality throughout the SDLC
• Evaluate and implement emerging automation and AI-assisted testing technologies

Skills

Quality Engineering

Test automation

QA architecture

CI/CD pipelines

API testing

Microservices testing

AI-assisted testing

Java/Kotlin

JavaScript/TypeScript

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Appium

REST Assured

Karate

JMeter

Gatling

k6

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking a lead Quality Engineering professional to drive enterprise QE architecture, automation frameworks, and testing strategy for complex, distributed systems.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed quality, automation, performance, and resiliency throughout the SDLC, including microservices and APIs. Strong leadership and hands-on testing toolkit are required.