Associate Technical Architect - QA - Automation

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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!