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Test Architect - Des Moines, IA/Charlotte, NC (Onsite)
W2 Contract/FullTime
Experience Required: 12+ years
Required skills:
Other Desired Skills and Qualifications:
- Minimum 12+ years of experience in building automated solutions to cover UI frontend, middle tier, and backend interfaces and services.
- Skilled and Hands on leader in test automation with the ability to code, code review and lead by example. Be able to understand the challenges and come up with innovative sustainable solution.
- Proven expertise and success in designing and implementing robust test automation frameworks, driving efficiency, and ensuring high-quality software products and solutions for large size application and project.
- Strong communication skills with ability to articulate the proposed solution across multiple stakeholders. Be a good liaison between product, business, and technology. Should be able to influence and impact stakeholders.
- Leads the design and implementation of enterprise test automation frameworks, methodology and tool integration for all teams
- Provides automation expertise, training and coaching to team members
- Determines range and depth of activities required for developing or customizing complex test automation frameworks, researching and onboarding automation tools for IT
- Deliver a robust automation framework built upon established and proven open source or commercial tools to support Agile/Scrum development, DevOps and CI/CD
- Design and architect modular and reusable automated testing solutions
- Keep current with advances in automation methodologies and tools
- Research, evaluation, and deployment of new test tools
- Trains teams to implement expanded automation coverage by adding automated environment validation, smoke and functional test scripts to CI/CD pipeline
- Identifies and directs the implementation of test automation related improvements that positively impact software delivery across the enterprise
- Be familiar with various automated tests tools for both front end and back end testing
- Ability to lead workshops, including the gathering/documenting of requirements and use-cases and recommendation of envisioned processes
- Ability to assess functional and technical gaps in designs
- Support continuous improvement processes, analyzing problems and recommending actions for effective resolution
- Ability to adapt to a fast paced continually changing business and work environment while managing multiple priorities
