[06/11/2025] Principal Test Architect

Job Description About This Role Bounteous x Accolite is a premier end-to-end digital transformation consultancy dedicated to partnering with ambitious brands to create digital solutions for today's complex challenges and tomorrow's opportunities. With uncompromising standards for technical and domain expertise, we deliver innovative and strategic solutions in Strategy, Analytics, Digital Engineering, Cloud, Data & AI, Experience Design, and Marketing. Our Co-Innovation methodology is a unique engagement model designed to align interests and accelerate value creation. Our clients worldwide benefit from the skills and expertise of over 4,000+ expert team members across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA. By partnering with leading technology providers, we craft transformative digital experiences that enhance customer engagement and drive business success. Information Security Responsibilities - Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols - Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets - Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) - Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information Key Responsibilities: - Lead the design, development and implementation of comprehensive test strategies that align with project and business goals, technical requirement and quality standards. - Lead Quality Engineering initiatives for a portfolio and strategize the transition from traditional quality assurance approach to quality engineering practices. - Expert in planning testing for both manual and automation in the following areas Progression, Regression, Integration, E2E, Accessibility, POS , Load & Performance, Security - Design E2E test automation tools and solutions to ensure testing efficiency across multiple platforms and domains - Design mobile application testing frameworks ensuring optimal quality for both iOS and Android platforms - Implement measures to support effectively automated CI/CD pipelines to improve release cycles with a perspective of shift left approach - Champion testing best practices across the organization. Provide technical leadership to the team and make sure best practices are continuously followed and evolved. - Expertise in defining KPIs for measuring quality. Establishing standard reporting mechanisms to track effectiveness of testing and success of test automation - Drive innovation by introducing emerging QA tools and technologies, leveraging AI-driven test automation solutions - Familiarity with devising a test strategy for testing on-prem or cloud POS systems, hardware and peripheral devices. - Familiarity with setting up and maintaining an org wide QA lab for testing. Qualifications: - 15+ years of experience in software testing with at least 6-7 years of experience in Test Architecture and a leadership role. - Proven expertise in QA transformation initiatives and building high-performing QA solutions - Strong understanding of software development process and methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Sprint ceremonies etc - Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with high-demand popular automation tools like Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Playwright etc. - Hands-on experience in Integration Test Automation with CICD tools like Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps etc and the process to setup a pipeline - Proficiency in at least a couple of programming languages like Java, Python, Java/Type Script. - Familiarity with cloud based testing environments and tools like AWS, Azure, BrowserStack - Solid knowledge of APIs(Postman, Swagger, RestAssured), microservices, databases and cloud platforms - Strongly skilled in solving critical problems, identifying and analysing gaps, collaborating effectively with business and technical teams and be a QA consultant for stakeholders - Knowledge on Gen AI testing tools (added advantage) - Knowledge on no/low code tools (added advantage)