Automation Architect L3

Job#: 3017211

Automation Architect

Apex Systems

Columbus, OH

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As an Automation Architect, you will design, build, and scale modern, intelligent end-to-end automation frameworks that ensure high release confidence across all product lines, with a strong focus on Angular-based web applications. This role requires deep hands‑on expertise in Playwright (Type Script) and mandatory experience using AI to create, maintain, and stabilize automated tests.

Full‑time

Mid‑Senior level

• Design, implement, and maintain a Playwright (Type Script) automation framework focused on scalability, maintainability, and reliability for Angular applications.
• Build reusable utilities, fixtures, and test patterns aligned with Angular architecture, including component‑based UIs, routing, and asynchronous rendering.
• Address Angular‑specific automation challenges such as change detection, dynamic DOM updates, async operations, and test synchronization.
• Ensure cross‑browser, cross‑device, and cross‑OS test coverage.

• Use AI to create automated tests, accelerating UI, API, and end‑to‑end test development for Angular workflows.
• Apply AI‑based self‑healing mechanisms to automatically adapt to frequent Angular UI, DOM, and locator changes.
• Identify, analyze, and fix flaky tests using AI, including issues related to timing, synchronization, change detection, and environment instability.
• Leverage AI‑assisted failure analysis to cluster failures and highlight root causes.
• Implement intelligent test selection and prioritization to reduce unnecessary CI/CD execution.
• Continuously improve test stability, accuracy, and execution performance using AI‑driven insights.

• Build, configure, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Git Hub Actions for automated test execution.
• Enable parallel execution and test sharding to improve feedback cycles.
• Integrate and manage Browser Stack or similar cloud testing platforms for scalable, distributed execution across browsers and devices.

• Expand and maintain automation coverage across Angular UI, REST APIs, and accessibility (WCAG/A11Y).
• Collaborate with engineering and QA teams to align automation with Angular product workflows and risk areas.
• Perform exploratory or manual testing when needed to better understand complex Angular user flows and edge cases.

• Generate and analyze automation test reports to identify failures, flakiness, and trends.
• Integrate test results with observability and monitoring tools to correlate failures with system health.
• Use data and insights to continuously improve automation reliability and effectiveness.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or 8+ years of equivalent experience in test automation and framework design.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Playwright (Type Script).
• Strong experience testing Angular applications, including understanding of component life cycles, routing, and async behavior.
• Mandatory hands‑on experience using AI in automation testing, specifically for test creation and maintenance, self‑healing automation, flaky test detection and automated stabilization, and AI‑assisted failure analysis.
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, modern JavaScript/Type Script, and browser behavior.
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, especially with Git Hub Actions.
• Hands‑on experience with Browser Stack or similar cloud device farms.
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs, async programming, and microservices‑based systems.
• Experience with test management tools such as Tricentis, Test Rail, or Xray.
• Working knowledge of observability tools such as Datadog or New Relic.
• Experience with accessibility testing using tools such as Axe or Evinced.
• Nice to have: Experience with Angular Material, NgRx, or other Angular ecosystem libraries; exposure to AWS or other cloud platforms; familiarity with performance or security testing; experience integrating or evaluating commercial or open‑source AI testing tools.

• Strong hands‑on coding and debugging…