Remote Quality Architect & Test Automation Leader

Pearson; Nashville (TN); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. You will shape quality strategy, provide domain-level expertise, and lead automation and testing across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor engineers, guide test tooling, and influence quality practices, with a focus on reliability, release confidence, and cross-team collaboration in a fully remote setup within the United States.

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.
• Partner with the Product Architect and Engineering leadership to determine long-term automation and quality strategy.
• Continually evaluate the process, tools, technology, data, and people practices involved in QA work, then drive improvements that make testing more automated, efficient, sustainable, and aligned to business risk.
• Establish quality metrics that inform decision-making, including automation health, test reliability, defect leakage, cycle time, release readiness, and the effectiveness of QA investments.
• Mentor and coach senior quality engineers and build quality capability across teams.
• Serve as the go-to expert for teams building out automated test suites and quality practices.

Skills

Quality strategy

Automation strategy

Test tooling

QA leadership

SME

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Info Systems

Tools

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based testing

Cloud testing

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper. You will shape quality strategy, provide domain-level expertise, and lead automation and testing across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor engineers, guide test tooling, and influence quality practices, with a focus on reliability, release confidence, and cross-team collaboration in a fully remote setup within the United States.