Associate Technical Architect - QA - Automation

Job description

While technology is the heart of our business, a global and diverse culture is the heart of our success. We love our people and we take pride in catering them to a culture built on transparency, diversity, integrity, learning and growth. If working in an environment that encourages you to innovate and excel, not just in professional but personal life, interests you- you would enjoy your career with Quantiphi! **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 If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us !