System Architect in Test Automation

at  Sogeti Ireland

The System Architect in Test Automation is responsible for improving Testing and ensuring that tooling, processes and standards are in place to ensure continues delivery of a high-quality service. Key activities including developing and expanding test frameworks to satisfy testing capabilities of distributed software as well as applying test automation practices to multiple products and teams.
Key Responsibilities
Planning and rolling out initiatives across multiple teams.
Creating and driving business cases that will raise the bar of quality and test practices and outputs.
Coaching members of SCRUM teams in test automation and troubleshooting
Coaching test automation leaders in maintaining and expanding test frameworks.
Documenting approaches to test automation capabilities
Designing and developing changes to test automation framework based on requirements from multiple teams.
Managing releases of testing software for external teams and customers
Rolling out changes to the test automation framework in controlled and backward-compatible manner for multiple teams and projects.
Rolling out the changes to Behavioral and Test Data Driven testing
Leading and mentoring teams
Requirements
ISTQB Agile tester certification is a must.
A relevant third level qualification or equivalent commercial experience in software engineering
Over 10 years of relevant experience in test automation with at least 6 years of experience in designing and maintaining test automation frameworks.
Very good knowledge of Java including proven exposure to functional programming and aspect-oriented programming patterns.
Very good skills of troubleshooting distributed applications and frameworks.
Excellent coaching and mentoring skills
Proven ability to roll out test management practices using Xray or Zephyr
Proven ability to providing KPI for test automation using reporting frameworks.
Proven exposure to TypeScript and JavaScript
Proven exposure to using Serenity BDD and Screenplay Pattern in BDD
Proven exposure to managing infrastructure using following AWS: ECS, Batch, EC2, CloudFormation and Stacks
Proven exposure to using AWS CDK and AWS SDK in JavaScript/TypeScript or Java
Proven exposure to Jenkins, Groovy and Gradle
Proven exposure to using Kubernetes and Docker compose.
Proven exposure to managing Selenium Grid
Proven exposure to REST applications and Swagger Contract

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