Lead QA Architect

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the quality leader for an entire domain and be accountable for the product quality.
• Actively track the domain's quality tasks, analyze testing needs, and define QA activities and ownership.
• Continuously analyze and challenge existing testing coverage.
• Plan, develop, and execute test strategy across the domain.
• Lead quality assurance efforts that align with product objectives to ship products rapidly and with confidence.
• Implement and evolve QA processes to get effective test signals and scale testing efforts across services.
• Partner with engineering and DevOps teams to leverage automation for scalable solutions to prevent regressions and ensure product reliability.
• Plan and lead Non-Functional Requirements (NFR) testing.
• Define guidelines and best practices for automation and manual testing procedures.
• Coordinate cross-organizational and cross-region testing activities.

Requirements

• 5 years of QA leadership experience, including team leader or manager roles.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a QA engineer with at least 4 years of automation experience.
• Extensive experience designing tests for an enterprise software solution.
• Leadership, coordination abilities, and the ability to influence without authority.
• Ability to define QA processes across development groups.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Test-Driven Development.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills.
• Experience with the full software development lifecycle using Agile development processes.
• Superior analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Strong self-motivation, dependable, responsible, and with an excellent work ethic.

Nice to Have

• Experience with automation frameworks and scalable testing solutions.
• Knowledge of quality metrics and continuous improvement methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience as a QA engineer and in QA leadership roles.