Senior Quality Architect & Automation Leader

Pearson; Jackson (MS); A distancia; USD 150.000 - 160.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper in the United States. This senior role provides domain-level quality leadership, shaping test strategy, automation architecture, reliability, and release confidence across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor senior engineers, review critical QA work, and contribute hands-on testing as needed.

Formación

• 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.

Responsabilidades

• 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.
• Serve as the domain subject-matter expert on quality, automation approaches, and critical test scenarios.
• Drive development and maintenance of robust, thorough test coverage across the domain's application areas.
• Serve as expert for complex root-cause analysis, intermittent-defect investigation, and reliability challenges.
• Keep current on industry best practices in automation, tooling, and approach, and assess their potential to improve the domain.

Conocimientos

Automation architecture

Quality strategy

Reliability

Test tooling

Scripting

Object-oriented programming

Educación

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/IS or equivalent

Herramientas

Gauge

Selenium/WebDriver

C#

VM-based test execution

Cloud testing infrastructure

Descripción del empleo

Pearson is seeking a Lead Specialist, Technical Architect (Quality) for ExamDeveloper in the United States. This senior role provides domain-level quality leadership, shaping test strategy, automation architecture, reliability, and release confidence across multiple Agile teams in a large distributed QA organization.

You will mentor senior engineers, review critical QA work, and contribute hands-on testing as needed.