Test Automation Architect

Skills

Description

Test Automation Architect
- Expertise in setting up and running multi-user automation frameworks
- Create, manage and maintain automation approach.
- Governance and Support of automation team,
- Innovations and developments
- Interface with dev and technical teams
- Tech stack – Mainframe, Java, Cloud Technologies
- Experience in API automation, Mobile Automation, UI Automation, Database Automation and Mainframe Automation
- Knowledge of Python automation frameworks
- Familiar with build and deploy tools (Jenkins, Maven etc) and automation tools and methodologies e.g., BDD, specflow, Cucumber, Selenium, Typescript, frameworks

Responsibilities

• - Develops strategies and directs teams within medium-large scale projects with diverse scope ensuring that project deliverables are completed within agreed cost, timescale and resource budgets, and are signed off. Proactively aims to achieve personal and team utilisation targets.
• - Responsible for overall analysis of automation tools and techniques, advises on selection of appropriate methods and their application, and ensures compliance by other team members.
• - Allocates and coordinates schedules, work and resource plans, managing progress of all activities against the plan, and managing own deliverables and that of others to meet delivery deadlines.
• - Provides quality engineering evaluation estimates on various projects, including the ability to execute vision, goals and direction of a team/teams.
• - Provides solutions and uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of system architectures.
• - Inputs into proof of concept exercises, identifies opportunities to expand client assignments.

Educational Requirements

• - Has achieved trusted advisor status at a senior level with clients.
• - Excellent client facing skills, as an expert in their field has experience of influencing client decision making and direction, takes time to establish underlying needs of client beyond those initially expressed.
• - Applies insight, originality and a broad perspective to generate revolutionary technical solutions.
• - Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• - Excellent communication and presentations skills, maintains confidentiality, shares ideas and information, facilitates discussions and transfers knowledge to diverse audiences to achieve collective objectives.