Position: QA Architect / Engineering lead
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11


Leading a team of software engineers and test architects across different geographical locations with the main mission to support the quality assurance organization in enabling efficient testing of the acquiring platform

Responsibilities of the team:
› Delivering enterprise level quality engineering tools
• Test automation frameworks
• Test data management solution
• Service virtualization
• Testing tools and instruments
› Implementing innovative solutions
• Robotic automation for the device testing
• Mobile lab for payment apps testing
› Providing stable and scalable test infrastructure for the testing teams using cloud technology
› Performing TestOps function for entire quality assurance organization
› Implementing test techniques for various technology
• Micro-service testing using PACT
• Micro-frontend testing
• ETL and Data reconciliation
› Enabling new technology for the quality assurance

Responsibilities as a Quality / Test Architect:
› Definition and implementation of the strategy for the quality engineering function within the organization
› Definition and implementation of the platform level test automation strategy
› Definition and implementation of the test data management strategy
› Engagement with the Development leads on the testing strategy for the product
› Engagement with the Enterprise Business Architects and Solution Leads on the programme test strategy for the clients

Key achievement in this role:
• Implementation of the enterprise level test automation framework 
• Implementation of the innovative solution for the device testing using robotic automation
• Moving testing infrastructure into the AWS cloud
• Establishing DevOps practices in test and forming a culture of TestOps

Technologies:
• Java, JavaScript / TypeScript, Python
• AWS Cloud, K8s, Docker
• Jenkins, Gitlab

Testing tools: Cypress, Serenity BDD, Selenium, Solenoid, Rest Assured, PACT, Postman, Genrocket, Jira, Xray
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