Automation Architect (hybrid in Durham, NC)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Work with delivery teams to build out solutions on testing and automation to achieve CI/CD.
• Evaluate the current automation and testing implementations and perform a gap analysis to provide strategic technical direction.
• Lead and mentor a growing team of software quality assurance engineers.
• Design and implement enterprise-wide test automation frameworks using AI-assisted tools.
• Arcitect cloud-native testing infrastructures for distributed and microservice-based systems.
• Establish testing standards, governance models, and best practices.
• Implement intelligent test data management and synthetic data generation.
• Guide teams in adopting modern testing tools and practices.
• Use exploratory testing skills by understanding related domains, architecture, and requirements.
• Focus on quality engineering and keen on continuous improvement across processes, products, and technology.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of experience with software test automation development.
• 2+ years of recent experience working with Cypress and JavaScript.
• Extensive hands-on experience with test automation framework architecture.
• Recent experience leading QA engineers on test automation best practices.
• Proven understanding of CI/CD pipelines.
• Coding using groovy scripts to configure test execution jobs.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Exposure to Kubernetes/ docker microservice is a necessity.
• Hands-on experience in API integration test automation.
• Should be able to develop and enhance automation (Java, JUnit/TestNg, Cucumber, etc.).
• Hands-on experience in UI automation using selenium, Maven, Java, and Cucumber technologies are required to design and develop UI test automation suites on demand.