Quality Architect & Automation Lead (Senior SME)

Pearson; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. This role provides domain-level quality leadership, sets testing strategy, and guides multiple Agile teams across a distributed QA organization.

You will mentor senior engineers, review critical QA artifacts, and influence release confidence with advanced automation, reliability, and data-driven decisions. This is a senior, non-managerial technical leadership position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, Engineering, IS or equivalent.
• 8+ years in quality engineering, software testing, or test automation.
• 3+ years as domain-level quality expert across distributed platforms.
• Influence on quality practices, automation frameworks, or standards.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic quality direction for ExamDeveloper quality system.
• Partner with Product Architect and Engineering to determine long-term automation strategy.
• Evaluate tools, data, and practices to improve automated testing and release confidence.
• Establish quality metrics supporting decision-making (automation health, defect leakage).
• Mentor senior quality engineers and review QA work across multiple teams.

Skills

Automation architecture

Quality strategy

Test tooling

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Quality processes

Reliability testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent

Tools

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based testing

Cloud testing infra

Azure

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. This role provides domain-level quality leadership, sets testing strategy, and guides multiple Agile teams across a distributed QA organization.

You will mentor senior engineers, review critical QA artifacts, and influence release confidence with advanced automation, reliability, and data-driven decisions. This is a senior, non-managerial technical leadership position.