Automation Architect

We are seeking an Automation Architect to lead enterprise test automation strategy, frameworks, and governance. This role blends hands-on expertise in UI, API, and database automation with architectural vision, mentoring, and strategic leadership to accelerate high-quality releases.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Define enterprise automation vision, roadmap, and reference architecture aligned with SDLC/STLC and business goals.

• Standardize and manage automation tools (Selenium, Katalon, Playwright, REST clients, DB utilities) and build reusable libraries and accelerators.

• Architect robust, modular frameworks in Java/C#/Groovy for UI, API, DB, contract, and component testing; enforce design patterns and code quality.

• Integrate automation into Agile workflows and CI/CD pipelines, enabling shift-left testing, gated releases, and nightly builds.

• Establish governance, coding standards, quality gates, and metrics (coverage, stability, MTTR, ROI); maintain dashboards in Azure DevOps.

• Optimize test data, environment strategy, mocks, and service virtualization for microservices and cloud environments.

• Lead framework evolution, scalability, maintainability, and root-cause analysis for complex issues.

• Mentor engineers, run workshops, and foster communities of practice.

• Champion security, performance, reliability, and continuous improvement in automation.

Required Technical Skills

• Hands-on expertise with Selenium, Katalon, Playwright, and modern API automation.

• Programming in Java, C#, Groovy; OOP, design patterns, and framework architecture.

• SQL, DB testing, and test data management.

• Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile methodology.

• STLC, defect tracking, analytics, RCA, and metric-driven decision making.

• Experience in designing and maintaining enterprise automation frameworks.

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