Skeps - Quality Assurance Architect

Responsibilities : - Design, document, and implement test automation frameworks and strategies for new systems, enhancements, and modifications. - Define and implement QA architecture, ensuring test solutions are scalable, maintainable, and reusable across products. - Collaborate with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to define quality requirements and acceptance criteria. - Develop test strategy and specifications, and lead automation implementation across functional, regression, API, and performance testing. - Architect and own CI/CD test integration, ensuring automated tests run reliably within build/deploy pipelines. - Establish release governance frameworks, including risk-based validation, release readiness gates, and production sign-off for critical releases. - Drive test coverage, quality metrics, and defect trends, and report on product quality health to leadership through executive-level dashboards. - Evaluate and implement automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium) suited to the tech stack. - Explore and implement GenAI/AI-driven testing approaches (e.g., AI-assisted test generation, self-healing automation, intelligent impact analysis) to improve testing efficiency and coverage. - Design and validate testing strategies for event-driven and asynchronous systems (message queues, caching layers, distributed services). - Lead security-focused testing, including vulnerability assessments aligned with OWASP standards. - Integrate observability tooling into quality pipelines to support real-time monitoring and quality gates. - Stay current with QA/automation industry trends and emerging tools, recommending adoption where relevant. - Mentor and train QA engineers, and define organisation-wide automation standards and best practices. Requirements : - 10+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with a strong focus on test automation architecture and strategy. - Proven experience designing and scaling automation frameworks from scratch (UI, API, and/or mobile). - Strong hands-on experience with automation tools : Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, or similar. - Experience with API testing/automation tools such as Postman, RestAssured, or similar, and RESTful web services. - Proficiency in scripting/programming for test automation : JavaScript/Node.js, Python, or similar. - Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar). - Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and Git. - Experience with performance/load testing tools (JMeter, k6 Gatling) is a plus. - Good command of cloud infrastructure AWS (preferred), MS Azure, or Google Cloud. - Familiarity with test management tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, HP ALM/QC, or TestRail. - Exposure to testing event-driven/asynchronous systems (e.g., Kafka, RabbitMQ) and NoSQL data layers is a plus. - Working knowledge of security/penetration testing practices (OWASP Top 10 tools like Burp Suite or OWASP ZAP) is a plus. - Experience with observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK) for quality monitoring is a plus. - Exposure to GenAI-driven testing or AI-agent-based automation (e.g., RAG-based test intelligence, self-healing frameworks) is a strong plus. - Strong understanding of software design patterns, architecture principles, and Agile methodologies. - Experience working closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Development teams. - Ability to mentor and train QA engineers at scale, and define organisation-wide automation standards. - Strong vision and ability to deliver quickly in a fast-paced start-up culture.