Automation Architect L3

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$69.00/hr – $69.00/hr

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. You will leverage Playwright (Type Script) and AI to create, maintain, and stabilise automated tests, supporting parallel and sharded execution, CI/CD integration via Git Hub Actions, and cloud‑based execution using Browser Stack.

• 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, accelerate UI, API, and end‑to‑end test development for Angular workflows.
• Apply AI‑based self‑healing mechanisms to automatically adapt to frequent Angular UI and locator changes.
• Identify, analyse, and fix flaky tests using AI, including issues related to timing, synchronisation, change detection, and environment instability.
• Leverage AI‑assisted failure analysis to cluster failures and highlight root causes.
• Implement intelligent test selection and prioritisation 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 analyse 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 behaviour.
• Mandatory hands‑on experience using AI in automation testing for test creation, self‑healing, flaky test detection, and AI‑assisted failure analysis.
• Strong understanding of HTML5, CSS3, modern JavaScript/Type Script, and browser behaviour.
• 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 (e.g., Tricentis, Test Rail, Xray).
• Working knowledge of observability tools (e.g., Datadog, 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 skills in Type Script and JavaScript.
• Proven ability to design and maintain scalable automation frameworks for Angular applications.
• Practical experience using AI…