Test Automation Architect - IT

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

- Assist teams with implementation and/or migration to appropriate systems and tools aligning to the overall test automation strategy

- Provide technical leadership and architectural guidance to cross functional teams around Continuous Delivery practices

- Identify manual processes and inefficiencies and improve them through automation

- Provide training and support to software engineering teams

- Investigate and recommend tools to support continuous integration and test automation objectives and processes

- Analyze product source code and work with developers to propose appropriate test strategies

- Use coding skills to implement test automation, automate daily tasks, and improve overall test coverage

- Be an evangelist to stakeholders about continuous integration, continuous delivery and agile practices

- Work with application development teams and automation teams to design and write automation code for deploying and managing applications

- Demonstrate a leadership role in ensuring that new and existing systems are aligned to architectural guidelines

Minimum Experience Requirements:

- 15+ years of experience in a software engineering environment including 3+ years in an Agile environment using CI with a high level of automation

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering. Must possess technical knowledge of all areas that support the cloud infrastructure, including automation frameworks, operating systems, network and security

- Excellent understanding of test automation principles and techniques: test-driven development, Unit tests, code coverage, instrumentation, etc.

- Unit, integration, black box, service and UI testing - understanding of testing pyramid

- Experience designing and implementing testing automation framework and methodology to support agile product development. Experience integrating test automation fully into the CI chain and how to keep tests healthy.

Should have experience in the product development company.

Experience with:

- Scripting/development experience (JAVA, J2EE, PL/SQL, Perl, Shell, Python, etc.).

- Unit Testing frameworks like TestNG, Junit, mocking solutions, etc.

- Testing frameworks for REST API; UI automation tools like Selenium

- Code Coverage tools like Jacoco, JSCover, Sonar, etc.

- Configuration management systems: Chef, Puppet, etc.

- Continuous integration systems: Hudson, Jenkins, etc.

- Collaboration and project management tools: JIRA, Perforce

- Version control systems (GIT, SVN)

- Big data solutions (i.e. Hadoop-based)

- Relevant experience in Service-oriented architecture for cloud-based services

- Application and infrastructure virtualization techniques for the purpose to testing automation

- Excellent analytical & troubleshooting skills, as well as innovation and creativity combined with strong personality;

- Strong written and verbal skills.

- Ability to work in an extremely geographically distributed organization