QA Architect

**OUR COMPANY**

We are full of fresh ideas with like-minded people offering opportunities to highly-talented individuals committed to working with the highest quality products in the area of business cloud computing (SaaS).

**Location -**Hyderabad, India.

**OPPORTUNITY**
- Celigo is looking for a rockstar quality engineering architect who will be responsible for the Quality of Celigo Product suite, leading new and existing Quality Engineering initiatives.
- Will be instrumental in championing quality engineering process improvement, software test strategies, driving test methodologies and automation across the products.
- Validates quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes; measuring production; documenting evidence.
- Develop quality assurance plans by conducting hazard analyses; identifying critical control points and preventive measures; establishing critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions, and verification procedures.
- Should have the drive to improve the job knowledge by constantly studying trends in and developments in quality management.

**WHAT YOU'LL DO**
- Design and architect modular, reusable, scalable functional and non-functional test automation tools/frameworks with latest tools and technologies
- Review, define and implement test strategies to make sure we don't compromise on the quality of the product. Wherever possible influence teams to adopt best testing strategies.
- Collaborate effectively with engineers and architects to solve complex problems spanning their respective areas to deliver end-to-end quality in our technology and customer experience
- Actively participate and contribute in functional, system, performance, and regression testing activities
- Work closely with the development team to analyze, debug and resolve any issues
- Work closely with the test team to identify new automation opportunities to improve product quality.
- Collaborate with DevOps team to integrate quality into in CI/CD pipeline with shift-left approach
- Integrate quality engineering processes within CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, streamlining testing within DevOps workflows.
- Regularly meet with Product Managers, services & support leads to identify bottlenecks or gaps in the process and work on enhancing them
- Work with Customer Success team on customer escalations and the overall process to provide the right guidance both to internal & external stakeholders
- Design and develop test plans; test cases based upon functional and design specifications
- Influence development managers to insure appropriate levels of quality on owned technologies
- Ensure the team follows various auditing processes and meets the compliance standards
- Hire, train and mentor new joiners
- Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with specific experience and demonstrable success with the full software development lifecycle; and using the Agile Development processes
- Estimate and perform risk analysis for large features

**WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED**
- Bachelors in Engineering or Technology in an industry related field
- Min 12 - 15 years of working experience in QA for a large-scale Product development organization with experience working on large-scale SaaS products
- Strong experience in designing and implementing automation framework from scratch for performing REST API, UI and API testing to test different layers of products with different tools
- Strong experience in understanding system architecture and building test plans to test end-to-end systems like microservices with the intention of breaking the system to full scale.
- Experience in working closely with other Architects to help design complex features and enable the scrum teams to build solid test designs.
- Experience in driving performance metric benchmarks.
- Possess strong experience in software test automation, test planning, test design, functional and performance testing
- Should have good attitude and strong aptitude and passion for software quality with a focus on continuous improvement
- Strong hands-on experience- using Selenium Web Driver with Java or Playwright with TypeScript
- using Rest API testing tools like Karate or similar tool
- Cucumber BDD framework
- JMeter or any other performance testing tool
- JIRA, Confluence and Zephyr
- Python and other tools
- Building AI solutions in QA context- Leverage AI-based tools to optimize test case generation, test data creation,defect prediction etc.,
- Drive innovation by introducing AI/ML-powered frameworks for smarter and faster test execution.
- Identify and implement tools that utilize natural language processing (NLP) for test scripting and result Analysis.Solid understanding of cloud native technologies and well versed with AWS cloud platform, service mesh (Istio/Linkerd), Kubernetes, Dockers/Containers, Cloud log services (Splunk)
- Experience testing microservices architecture-based product in functionalit