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Role Description
Job Description
An experienced Technical Automation Architect (Offshore - Preferable location Kochi/TVM) to lead and guide the automation engineering team in executing the QE transformation roadmap. This role will define and evolve scalable automation frameworks, accelerate automation adoption across web, mobile, API & DB layers, and embed modern practices such as CI/CD integration, standardized quality gates, and AI assisted automation where applicable
Key Responsibilities
- Automation Architecture & Framework Leadership
- Define and implement scalable, maintainable automation architecture for web, mobile, and API testing.
- Establish automation standards (coding guidelines, design patterns like POM, reusable libraries, reporting) and ensure consistent implementation across the offshore team
- Drive framework modernization to support cross-browser/device execution via cloud test platforms / test grids and integrations
- Shift-Left & CI/CD Enablement
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and shift-left validation
- Define quality gates, coverage expectations, and automation readiness criteria for teams3) Tooling, Platforms & Engineering Excellence
- Tooling and Platforms
Lead Implementation And Governance For
- Selenium + Java automation for web UI
- Appium for mobile automation
- API automation (e.g., Rest Assured/Postman-based approaches where applicable)
- TestGrid Automation
- Sauce Labs / Test grid execution strategy for scale and stability
- Evaluate and onboard tools/approaches through POCs, and standardize what works for the program
- Agile Delivery & Jira/ADO Collaboration
- Partner with Product Owners, Tower leads, Dev, DevOps, and QA leads to ensure requirements are testable and automation is planned early.
- Use Jira effectively for story/test tracking, defect lifecycle, dashboards, and execution reporting.
- Mentoring, Reviews & Offshore Execution Governance
- Mentor SDETs/automation engineers, perform design/code reviews, and enforce engineering best practices.
- Drive delivery governance: sprint planning support, automation progress reporting, root-cause analysis for flaky tests, and stabilization plans.
- AI-Assisted Automation
- Contribute to adoption of AI-assisted automation use cases (e.g., test generation, script acceleration, self-healing concepts) and guide the team on practical implementation with human-in-the-loop quality controls
Required Skills & Experience
- 8-14+ years in QA automation / SDET / test architecture roles with strong hands-on engineering ownership.
- Strong expertise in Selenium WebDriver with Java and Appium automation framework design, and test engineering practices.
- Strong experience with API testing/automation (REST validation, automation frameworks).
- Tosca knowledge is added advantage
Skills
automation testing,selenium webdriver,java,appium,api testing,rest assured,postman
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