Remote Quality Architect & Automation Lead

Pearson; Frankfort (KY); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper in the United States. You will shape the quality system, set automation strategy, and mentor senior engineers across multiple agile teams to improve release confidence.

You will own domain-level quality practices, review critical QA work, and guide testing approaches, tooling, and governance. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role within a distributed quality organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation experience.
• 3+ years operating as a domain-level quality expert or SME across complex, distributed platforms.
• Demonstrated influence on quality practices, automation frameworks, or standards adopted across multiple teams.
• Deep experience with test automation strategy, tooling, and quality improvement.
• Experience operating in large product environments with multiple Agile teams, distributed QA teams, and high volumes of testing and release-readiness decisions.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for the ExamDeveloper quality system, including process, automation, tooling, training, metrics, quality gates, and release confidence across the domain.
• Mentor and coach senior quality engineers and build quality capability across teams.
• Evaluate emerging tools and AI-assisted testing practices that improve quality, efficiency, and delivery confidence.
• Provide technical oversight of QA practices and test artifacts, reviewing work for maintainability, effectiveness, and alignment to quality standards.
• Represent quality in leadership discussions and with internal or external stakeholders when issues require domain-level judgment.

Skills

Automation architecture

Quality strategy

Reliability

Test tooling

Scripting

Object-oriented programming

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based testing

Cloud testing

Azure/Kubernetes

CI/CD gates

SQL

Telemetry

Observability

Production quality signals

LLMs/ML

AI-assisted QA tooling

Accessibility WCAG

Communication

Written communication

Education

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

Tools

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based test execution

Cloud testing infrastructure

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper in the United States. You will shape the quality system, set automation strategy, and mentor senior engineers across multiple agile teams to improve release confidence.

You will own domain-level quality practices, review critical QA work, and guide testing approaches, tooling, and governance. This is a strategic, hands-on leadership role within a distributed quality organization.