Senior Quality Architect Budapest, Hungary or Remote
Senior Quality Architect Description
Job #: 65311
EPAM is a leading global provider of digital platform engineering and development services. We are committed to having a positive impact on our customers, our employees, and our communities. We embrace a dynamic and inclusive culture. Here you will collaborate with multi-national teams, contribute to a myriad of innovative projects that deliver the most creative and cutting-edge solutions, and have an opportunity to continuously learn and grow. No matter where you are located, you will join a dedicated, creative, and diverse community that will help you discover your fullest potential.
You are curious, persistent, logical and clever – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Senior Quality Architect. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements
DESCRIPTION
You are curious, persistent, logical and clever – a true techie at heart. You enjoy living by the code of your craft and developing elegant solutions for complex problems. If this sounds like you, this could be the perfect opportunity to join EPAM as a Senior Quality Architect. Scroll down to learn more about the position’s responsibilities and requirements
Responsibilities
- Define test automation scope (Functional and Non-functional), and tools and technologies required to automate testing for different tiers
- Collaborate with Project Teams, Business Systems Analysts, and other QA Leads, to create, communicate and drive overall quality strategy
- Establish the test architecture, reusable frameworks and components. Should be able to choose approach and drive different types of automated testing (Functional/Non-Functional)
- Create/Assist/Troubleshoot the development of automation harness to ensure stability, efficiency, and scalability across the organization
- Provide data driven, metrics driven quality assurance and visibility at program level
- Co-ordinate designing internal solutions (libraries, tools, automation infrastructure, applications and systems associated with quality)
- Participate in product design reviews, works with the Solution Architect and development team to improve system testability and overall quality
- Establish communication between Quality assurance engineers and other project stake holders
- Provide technical guidance and expertise to team members, colleagues and/or customers
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with other IT services, IT solution functions and customers to expedite delivery of IT solutions
- Manage the Daily/Weekly activities of Quality Team Members and support the onboarding of new team members
- Contribute to program/project review meetings. Support management in
- Determining status, assessing problem areas, suggesting, and reviewing corrective actions
- Directing/planning necessary extra work, and rework and re-plan activities
- Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives
- Assist in the development of quality assurance and testing policies, standards and procedures, processes, and best practices as related to automation through a Community of Practice
- Support the onboarding of new team members
- Work with project stakeholders to determine the appropriate quality initiatives to implement during system development life cycles
- Proactive approach to identifying issues and presenting solutions and options, and where appropriate, leading to resolution
- Ability to clearly articulate both problems and proposed solutions
- Ability to prioritize personal and team workloads to best meet organizational objectives
- Empowered to make decisions and recommend approach based on the results from quality review
Requirements
- Experienced with establishing test automation from scratch
- Solid knowledge of the automation tools in the market to be able to propose the best setup based on the client's need and situation
- Proven ability to evaluate, understand, and troubleshoot complex issues and solve problems with little or no supervision
- Ability to evaluate requirements then develop test plans and test strategy
- Hands on experience planning and executing end-to-end testing
- Understanding of programming concepts in various languages (variables, parameters, data driven, and code flow)
- Has knowledge on how to incorporate quality into software (architecture, quality of code, deployment and release process, quality of testing process, etc.)
- Basic understanding of EngX (Engineering excellence) practices and most popular tools (e.g. Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, plug-ins, etc.)
- Has experience building efficient quality processes from scratch or significantly improving existing
- Hands-on and up-to-date experience in modern testing tools and approaches
- Experience with relational databases (able to formulate queries, insert, extract, and evaluate data from database tables)
- Previous experience with Test Automation, Web UI automation, API testing manual or automation; strong experience designing and building automation frameworks
- Experience working with Selenium and Cucumber or similar tools in this space
- Experience with TDD and BDD approach, its Pros and Cons
- Familiarity with the following tools (Jenkins, Zephyr, Jira, Quality Center, QTest)
- Must have experience implementing Continuous Integration / Continuous Development (CI/CD) practices
- Must be energetic and proactive team player with aptitude and willingness to lead when necessary
- Must be good with understanding Automation SLA’s and Metrics and drive team in achieving them
- Fluent English
We offer
- Dynamic, entrepreneurial, high speed, high growth corporate environment
- Diverse multicultural, multi-functional, and multilingual work environment
- Opportunities for personal and career growth in a progressive industry
- Global scope, international projects
- Widespread training and development opportunities
- Unlimited access to LinkedIn learning solutions
- Competitive salary and various benefits
- Sport and social teams support, recreation area, advanced CSR programs
