Remote US: Quality Architect & Automation Leader

Pearson; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) to provide domain-level quality leadership for ExamDeveloper. This role focuses on automation strategy, reliability, and release confidence across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor engineers, review critical QA work, and occasionally contribute hands-on testing or automation investigation where impact is greatest. This is a strategic, non-managerial leadership position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 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 across distributed platforms.
• Demonstrated influence on quality practices, automation frameworks, or standards across teams.
• Deep experience with test automation strategy, tooling, and quality improvement.
• Experience in large product environments with multiple Agile teams and high testing volume.

Responsibilities

• Set strategic direction for ExamDeveloper quality system, including process, automation, tooling, training, metrics, gates, and release confidence.
• Partner with Product Architect and Engineering leadership on long-term automation and quality strategy.
• Drive improvements to make testing automated, efficient, and aligned to business risk.
• Establish quality metrics informing decision-making like automation health, reliability, leakage, and release readiness.
• Mentor senior quality engineers and build quality capability across teams.
• Represent quality in leadership discussions with stakeholders requiring domain-level judgment.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test automation

Automation frameworks

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

Azure

Kubernetes

Scripting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based test execution

Cloud testing infrastructure

Azure/Kubernetes

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) to provide domain-level quality leadership for ExamDeveloper. This role focuses on automation strategy, reliability, and release confidence across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor engineers, review critical QA work, and occasionally contribute hands-on testing or automation investigation where impact is greatest. This is a strategic, non-managerial leadership position.