Software Quality Assurance Associate Director - Test Automation Architect

The Test Automation Architect is a senior position responsible for the Software Quality Engineering team, leading our Quality Engineering programs, and will help coordinate QA processes, driving test automation methods, risk analysis, resource planning and estimating for client projects. Reporting to the Director, Software Quality Assurance

• Review/Prepare test automation solutions

• Design automation frameworks

• Lead the implementation of test strategy, plans, and execution

• Support automation script development and optimization

• Recommend new tools, techniques, and methodologies to improve quality and productivity

• Collaborate with scrum/product teams to strategize and align long term solution for test automation

• Align automation processes, tools, and strategies with our goals

• Enforce best practices for automation

• Standardize compliance for QE Automation

• Improve automation processes 

• Design and execute, monitor, and improve testing process for a testing engagement.

• As an Individual Contributor – the Architect needs to have the ability to meet deadlines and work independently.

• Oversee/ensure the quality of test plans, test cases, test matrix, and bug reporting

• Scripting and development experience in a broad range of programming languages.

• Database (RDBMS) technology understanding with hands on experience in SQL and procedural languages.

• Advanced experience in Cloud (preferably Azure cloud)

Position Description & Responsibilities:

• The QA Architect guides the test automation strategy. The architect sets the technical direction for the QA work and leads the test automation team. The Architect works closely with development and the test team to meet the quality goals of the organization.

• Establish design principles for QA automation and Performance Testing Present options and recommendations

• Design and maintain the test automation frameworks

• Architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions that satisfy client requirements.

• Work with the test team to identify new automation opportunities.

• Mentor the test automation team.

• Contribute to managing of test environments.

• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information.

• Develop and maintain a planning model that estimates the Value of test automation. Report actual ROI

• Keep current with advances in automation methodologies and tools.

• Research, evaluation, and deployment of new test tools.

• Experience with Azure DevOps / Jenkins or other CI applications/software.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent business degree.

• QA professional with 10+ years software industry and management experience

• 8+ years test automation experience with three years at a senior level. Demonstrated. Experience in selecting, designing, and implementing test automation frameworks. Experience developing in-house automation tools

• Hand-on experience using Selenium Web Driver with Java

• JIRA, Confluence, Qtest

• Tricentis Tosca knowledge

• Expertise with continuous integration (Jenkins/AzDo Pipelines)

Benefits:

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Wolters Kluwer strives for an inclusive company culture in which we attract, develop, and retain diverse talent to achieve our strategy. As a global company, having a diverse workforce is of the utmost importance. We've been recognized by employees as a European Diversity Leader in the Financial Times, as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Diversity in 2022, 2021 and 2020 and as one of Forbes America’s Best Employers for Women in 2021, 2020, 2019 and 2018. In 2020, we placed third in the Female Board Index, and were recognized by the European Women on Boards Gender Diversity Index. Wolters Kluwer and all of our subsidiaries, divisions and customer/departments is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer

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