QA Architect | India requirement | REMOTE.

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced QA Architect with strong expertise in test automation, quality engineering, and AI-driven testing. The ideal candidate will define enterprise QA strategy, architect scalable automation frameworks, and leverage AI/GenAI to improve test coverage, test creation, defect analysis, and overall software quality.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the enterprise QA and Quality Engineering strategy across applications and platforms.
• Design scalable, reusable test automation frameworks and architectures.
• Drive automation across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Evaluate and implement modern AI/GenAI-powered testing solutions.
• Use AI/LLMs to improve test case generation, test data creation, defect analysis, test maintenance, and test optimization.
• Explore and implement AI-driven test automation and intelligent testing workflows.
• Establish automation standards, frameworks, coding practices, and QA best practices.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.
• Define quality gates, automation metrics, test coverage, and overall QA KPIs.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, DevOps, product, and business teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
• Lead technical evaluations, PoCs, and adoption of emerging AI and automation technologies.
• Identify opportunities to reduce manual testing through intelligent automation.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA automation engineers.
• Ensure automation solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and reliable.

Required Skills

• 10+ years of experience in QA / Software Testing / Quality Engineering.
• 3+ years in a QA Architect / Test Architect / Automation Architect role.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and architecture.
• Excellent experience with Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, or similar automation tools.
• Strong API automation experience using tools/frameworks such as REST Assured, Postman, or similar.
• Strong programming experience with Java, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar.
• Experience designing automation frameworks using Page Object Model, BDD, data-driven, and hybrid frameworks.
• Strong experience integrating automation with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, Agile, and Quality Engineering practices.
• Hands-on experience with AI/GenAI/LLMs applied to software testing and QA.
• Experience using AI for test generation, test optimization, defect analysis, test data generation, or automation maintenance.