Associate Technical Architect - QA - Automation

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Role: Test Lead – Automation

Experience: 10+ years

Location: Mumbai/Bangalore (Hybrid)

Key Responsibilities:

Automation Strategy & Framework Development

• Define and implement automation strategy across UI, API, data, and integration testing

• Design and develop scalable, reusable automation frameworks

• Establish automation standards, best practices, and governance

• Drive adoption of automation-first testing approach across projects

Automation Delivery & Execution

• Lead end-to-end automation implementation across client engagements

• Identify automation candidates and prioritize regression coverage

• Ensure integration of automation suites with CI/CD pipelines

• Drive parallel execution, performance optimization, and stability of test suites

Accelerators & IP Development

• Build reusable automation accelerators, libraries, and utilities

• Contribute to organization-wide QA frameworks and toolkits

• Develop solutions for:

  • Test data management

  • Test orchestration

  • Reporting and analytics

• Enable faster onboarding and delivery through reusable assets

Technical Leadership & Mentoring

• Mentor and guide junior automation engineers and testers

• Conduct code reviews and enforce automation best practices

• Drive capability building and upskilling within the QA team

• Promote engineering excellence and continuous improvement

Stakeholder Management & Collaboration

• Work closely with clients, developers, DevOps, and product teams

• Translate business requirements into automation solutions

• Provide regular updates, insights, and recommendations to stakeholders

• Act as a trusted advisor on quality engineering and automation

CI/CD & DevOps Integration

• Integrate automation frameworks with tools like

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI

• Implement quality gates and continuous testing practices

• Enable shift-left and shift-right testing strategies

Innovation & Emerging Capabilities

• Drive adoption of AI/GenAI in test automation

• Test case generation

• Self-healing automation

• Intelligent test selection

• Explore and implement modern tools such as Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium

• Continuously improve frameworks with latest industry practices

Must have skills:

Technical Skills

• Strong experience in test automation frameworks (UI & API)

• Hands-on with tools like Playwright, Selenium, Cypress

• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Rest Assured, Requests

• Programming skills in Java / JavaScript / Python

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

• Cloud & Modern Engineering

• Experience with AWS services such as: Compute, storage, and serverless architectures

• CI/CD and deployment pipelines

• Exposure to containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

Leadership & Soft Skills

• Strong team leadership and mentoring experience

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Ability to drive automation transformation initiatives

• Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking

Nice to have skills

• Experience in data testing or ETL validation

• Exposure to AI-driven testing approaches

•  Good understanding of microservices architecture and cloud-based systems

• Cloud & Modern Engineering