QA Automation Architect

Principal QA Automation Architect

8–10 years

The Principal QA Automation Architect is responsible for defining, implementing, and evangelizing best-in-class quality engineering and automation strategies across the organization. This role owns QA architectural artifacts, testing frameworks, CI/CD quality controls, and non-functional testing strategies to ensure scalable, secure, and high-quality solutions across diverse platforms including Web, Mobile, Data Engineering, AI, and Enterprise systems.

Working closely with engineering, architecture, product, and operations teams, this role drives automation maturity, shift-left practices, and continuous quality improvement to deliver exceptional customer outcomes.

• Define, implement, and maintain QA architectural artifacts
  , including testing systems, feedback loops, logging, reporting, and interconnectivity across the SDLC.

• Create and maintain implementation-level QA architectures that support scalable, maintainable, and reusable testing strategies.

• Contribute to and maintain Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) at an organizational level.

• Define and drive best-in-class QA strategies across functional and non-functional testing domains.

• Design and govern automation frameworks for Web, API, Mobile, Data, and Enterprise systems.

• Lead organization-wide quality automation initiatives
  , including Integration, Acceptance, Performance, and Security testing platforms.

• Provide consultancy and guidance on technology stack and tool selection
  , ensuring alignment with scalability, performance, security, and compliance requirements.

• Establish quality gates, metrics, and reporting mechanisms to measure and improve quality outcomes.

• Embed quality controls into CI/CD pipelines and all phases of the SDLC.

• Champion shift-left testing practices to reduce feedback loops and improve delivery speed.

• Support environment configuration, pipeline feedback mechanisms, and automated reporting.

• Drive ITSM (ITIL v4) aligned practices across change, incident, problem, and operational processes.

• Enable teams to adopt and adhere to QA Engineering Policies, Procedures, and Standards
  .

• Govern, train, and evangelize good testing practices versus anti-patterns across all testing levels.

• Lead knowledge transfer, mentoring, and training of QA and engineering teams.

• Collaborate with other Principal Engineers and cross-disciplinary teams to advocate for quality automation needs.

• Develop testing strategies aligned to customer needs, risks, and business outcomes
  .

• Expand testing beyond functional validation into performance, security, reliability, and scalability
  .

• Ensure testing approaches validate solution appropriateness across critical dimensions of quality.

• Extensive hands-on experience with automated testing tools and frameworks
  , including but not limited to:

  • Selenium, WebDriver
    
    IO, Appium, Test Complete

  • JMeter, Chrome Lighthouse, Karate Labs

  • Browser Stack or similar cloud testing platforms

• Strong programming knowledge in Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
  .

• Expert-level knowledge of testing strategy, test planning, test case design, execution, and reporting
  .

• Proven experience integrating quality controls into CI/CD pipelines
  .

• Strong experience in API and Web automation
  .

• Knowledge of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) is a strong plus.

• Familiarity with SAP platforms (S/4
  
  HANA, Commerce Cloud / Hybris) is a plus.

• Experience with
  test management tools such as Zephyr.

• Deep understanding of SDLC, QA governance, and automation architecture
  .

• Experience authoring and maintaining process and architecture documentation
  .

• Knowledge of diagramming tools and methodologies (Miro, , Fig Jam, Mermaid.js).

• Strong understanding of ITSM / ITIL v4 processes.

• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder-influencing skills.

• Ability to mentor, coach, and lead without direct authority.

• Customer-centric mindset with the ability to…