Senior Enterprise QA & Test Data Platform Architect

M&T Bank; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 116,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and advance enterprise Test Data Management, Test Automation, and Quality Engineering capabilities. You will act as the technical authority for testing platforms, frameworks, and data services, guiding standardization, architecture, and automation strategies across the organization.

The role emphasizes enterprise coaching, SDLC ownership, and collaboration with Architecture, Security, and Compliance to ensure risk-aware,

Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and a minimum of 7 years’ systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years' systems analysis and/or application development work experience.
• Expert proficiency in a minimum of 1 relevant programming language and professional proficiency in a minimum of 1 additional relevant programming language.
• Experience implementing enterprise testing, automation, quality engineering, or test data management solutions.
• Experience developing enterprise standards, frameworks, governance processes, reference architectures, and implementation patterns.
• Experience integrating testing capabilities into DevOps and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery methodologies, SDLC practices, DevOps principles, software quality engineering concepts, and enterprise testing strategies.
• Strong understanding of risk management, information security, compliance, data privacy, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Develop enterprise strategies, standards, roadmaps, and implementation frameworks for Test Data Management, Test Automation, Continuous Testing, and Quality Engineering capabilities.
• Serve as the enterprise technical authority for Test Data Management, Test Automation, Testing Platforms, Testing Frameworks, Continuous Testing, and Quality Governance.
• Develop and coach team members while working independently on applications and platforms within approved SDLC processes.
• Define, maintain, and govern enterprise standards, implementation patterns, reusable frameworks, methodologies, and engineering best practices.
• Provide technical leadership for Test Data Management capabilities, including Delphix virtualization, data masking, self-service provisioning, synthetic data generation, test data lifecycle management, and environment optimization.
• Define and maintain enterprise testing frameworks supporting functional, API, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, continuous, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Establish and evolve enterprise automation approaches utilizing SmartBear Zephyr, Selenium, Playwright, Cucumber, Postman, REST Assured, GitLab, GitLab CI/CD, Jira, Delphix, and enterprise reporting platforms.
• Create enterprise standards and reference architectures for test automation, test data management, test case management, API testing, CI/CD testing integration, quality gates, environment management, test data masking, and test execution reporting.
• Drive adoption of shift-left testing, continuous testing, behavior-driven development (BDD), automated quality gates, and self-service test data provisioning.
• Review and approve designs, solution architectures, pull requests, technical proposals, and implementation approaches to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, security, compliance, and engineering standards.

Education

Associate’s degree + minimum 7 years experience in systems analysis and/or application development

Bachelor’s degree in relevant field + minimum 5 years experience

Job description

M&T Bank in Buffalo, NY is seeking a senior engineering leader to define and advance enterprise Test Data Management, Test Automation, and Quality Engineering capabilities. You will act as the technical authority for testing platforms, frameworks, and data services, guiding standardization, architecture, and automation strategies across the organization.

The role emphasizes enterprise coaching, SDLC ownership, and collaboration with Architecture, Security, and Compliance to ensure risk-aware,