Role Proficiency:Leverage specialist testing knowledge to define and implement testing best practices and environment strategy for an enterprise
Outcomes
- Participate in test maturity assessments
- Conduct evaluation of new/emerging tools and frameworks
- Implement Best Practices Guidelines and Methodologies
- Analyse Patterns of Issues in projects and propose solutions
- Develop Test Data and Environment Strategy for an Enterprise
- Implement Test Reporting Frameworks
Measures Of Outcomes
- Test Coverage
- Test Automation Coverage
- Savings from Optimization
- Savings from Automation
- Defect Removal efficiency
- No: of Kaizens initiated and implemented
- Cost savings for the customer
- Cost saving from carrying out Test Optimization exercise
- Continuous service improvements
Outputs Expected
Test Strategy:
- Define and implement test strategy
- Define and baseline tool strategies
- Define and document test environment and test data strategies
- Perform feasibility study for recommended solutions
Knowledge Management
- Publish best practices and guidelines standards white paper etc.
Test Reporting
- Conduct cost benefit analysis
Test DesignDevelopment
Execution
- Create strategies for test optimization
- Carry out gap analysis and identify improvement areas
- Identify program goals and define KPI's and SLA's
- Identify and implement industry wide best practices
Test Planning
- Perform test maturity assessments provide recommendations and define roadmaps
- Identify candidate for automation by prioritization
Skill Examples
- Ability to define test strategies
- Ability to manage and evaluate the test tools and frameworks
- Ability to Create re-usable assets
- Ability to identify test practice gaps and provide recommendations
- Ability to perform test maturity assessments
- Ability to define service improvement roadmaps
Knowledge Examples
- Knowledge of Automation Techniques
- Knowledge of Testing methodologies
- Knowledge of Test Automation tools and frameworks
- Knowledge of Automation ROI analysis
- Knowledge of industry wide KPI's
- Knowledge of Test Data and Test Env requirement identification
Additional Comments
Test Architect Leader – APAC Region Role Summary The Test Architect Leader will represent the Enterprise Quality Assurance (EQA) organization in the APAC region, reporting directly to the EQA Leader. The Test Architect is a technical hands-on leader and is a strategic participant across many development efforts. This role is responsible for advancing Quality Engineering (QE) practices, driving automation strategy, and ensuring alignment with enterprise QA standards across APAC delivery teams. The individual will act as a strategic partner to APAC stakeholders, providing technical leadership, process governance, and mentoring to elevate QA maturity. The Test Architect provides overall leadership on test strategy, script design, script execution, automation framework, service virtualization, data virtualization, and environment design & advanced Test Management strategies all combined to improve effectiveness, costs and velocity. Responsible for the design, enhancement and future growth of test automation architecture and framework. Key Responsibilities
- Serve as the EQA representative for APAC region leaders & QA professionals, ensuring QA priorities align with business objectives.
- Define and implement test architecture strategies for functional, non-functional, and automation testing.
- Establish and maintain EQA automation frameworks integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
- Ensure compliance with enterprise QA processes, templates, and KPIs.
- Mentor and coach QA professionals in APAC on technical and leadership skills.
- Act as a liaison between APAC delivery teams and EQA leadership for quality initiatives.
- Responsible for the automation architecture and provides direction on automation techniques
- Extend tool capabilities and integrate with other technologies by coding interfaces, new functions, custom objects, etc
- Apply Testing Lifecycle Management principles in the context of a product
- Possess technical competency and takes on leadership role to interact with application developers to ensure software quality Required Skills & Qualifications
- Strong experience in Quality Engineering, test automation frameworks, and CI/CD integration using Jenkins, GitHub Actions etc..
- Hands-on knowledge of functional and non-functional testing tools and practices.
- Proven ability to lead distributed teams and influence senior stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and change management skills.
- Creative with ability to "think outside the box" for long-term solution
- 10+ years in QA/QE roles, with at least 3 years in an architect or leadership capacity.
- Experience in test efforts for cloud (AWS/Azure), containerized (Docker), and distributed environments Utilized Generative AI(Chatgpt, AppliTool, GitHub Copilot etc) towards QA use cases
Skills
Quality Engineering,Test Automation Framework,Excellent Communication,CI/CD
Ashwini P,
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