Test Architect

• *Test Automation Architect**

• *Experience**

12\+ years of experience in Test Automation, SDET, Quality Engineering, or Test Architecture.

• *Role Summary**

We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Architect to define and drive the automation and Quality Engineering strategy across products and teams. The role combines automation architecture, framework design, CI/CD integration, RHEL platform testing and security/compliance validation, cloud/container testing, and technical leadership.

Automation Architecture \+ Quality Engineering Strategy \+ Platform Security \& Compliance \+ Technical Leadership \+ Hands\-on Technical Guidance

The role is expected to provide architecture and technical direction while remaining sufficiently hands\-on in framework design, POCs, troubleshooting, and critical automation solutions.

• *Key Responsibilities**

• Define Test Automation / Quality Engineering strategy, architecture, standards, and roadmap.
• Design and implement scalable, reusable, enterprise\-level test automation frameworks.
• Drive automation across UI, API, integration, regression, end\-to\-end, and platform testing.
• Define automation architecture, coding standards, design patterns, and reusable components.
• Lead integration of automated testing with Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and automated quality gates.
• Drive automation across RHEL, Azure, Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Define and drive RHEL platform validation, security testing, hardening validation, and compliance testing strategies.
• Define automation approaches for platform security controls and security compliance requirements.
• Provide technical direction and conduct architecture/code reviews for automation solutions.
• Develop and review automation using Python, Playwright/Selenium, Shell, and Java.
• Define strategies for test data, environment management, parallel execution, reporting, scalability, and distributed test execution.
• Improve automation coverage, reliability, execution time, maintainability, security validation, compliance coverage, and ROI.
• Drive shift\-left testing and security/quality engineering practices across the SDLC.
• Lead troubleshooting and root\-cause analysis of complex automation, platform, security, and environment issues.
• Define and track quality and automation metrics such as coverage, automation effectiveness, execution time, defect leakage, security coverage, and compliance status.
• Collaborate with Development, DevOps, Security, Platform, Architecture, Product, and QA teams.
• Evaluate and introduce new automation tools, frameworks, security\-validation approaches, and technologies.
• Drive adoption of AI\-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude, and Gemini for test generation, automation, debugging, security validation, and productivity.
• Mentor Senior Engineers and Technical Leads.

• *Architecture \& Technical Leadership**
• Define reference architectures and reusable automation patterns for application, platform, security, and compliance testing.
• Assess existing frameworks and drive automation modernization and transformation.
• Establish automation standards and best practices across teams.
• Define the right balance of UI, API, integration, service\-level, platform, and security automation.
• Define an automation strategy for RHEL platform security and security compliance validation.
• Establish reusable approaches for validating RHEL hardening, security configurations, vulnerabilities, access controls, and compliance requirements.
• Drive reduction of manual testing through automation, including security and compliance validation.
• Evaluate tools/frameworks based on scalability, reliability, maintainability, execution speed, security capabilities, and cost.
• Provide technical direction across multiple QA/engineering teams.
• Review automation architecture, test strategy, code, technical designs, and security/compliance validation approaches.
• Mentor technical leads and senior engineers.
• Drive continuous improvement in quality, automation maturity, platform security validation, compliance coverage, and engineering productivity.

• *Candidate Profile**
• 12\+ years of strong Test Automation / SDET / Quality Engineering experience.
• Proven experience designing enterprise\-scale automation frameworks.
• Strong hands\-on expertise in Python, Playwright/Selenium, API automation, and Jenkins.
• Strong working knowledge of RHEL/Linux platforms, including platform configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and system\-level validation.
• Strong understanding of RHEL platform security, security hardening, secure configurations, access controls, and vulnerability validation.
• Experience with security compliance testing and validation for enterprise platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud, containers, Kubernetes/OpenShift, microservices, and distributed systems.
• Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines and implementing automated quality/security gates.
• Strong understanding of test strategy, automation architecture, test design, and Quality Engineering.
• Excellent troubleshooting, analytical, and problem\-solving skills across application, platform, security, and environment issues.
• Proven experience driving automation transformation and standardization.
• Strong technical leadership and stakeholder\-management skills.
• Experience defining or implementing platform security and compliance automation is highly desirable.

Qualifications

BE BTECH MCA

Range of Year Experience\-Min Year

12

Range of Year Experience\-Max Year

18

• *Test Architect \| Infinite Computer Solutions**

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