Quality Architect

We are seeking a highly experienced Quality Architect to define, design, and implement enterprise-wide quality engineering frameworks across cloud-native and platform-based products. This role will drive automation architecture, reliability strategy, and quality governance across distributed systems.The ideal candidate is a hands-on technical leader with deep expertise in automation frameworks, cloud validation, and scalable testing architecture.Key Responsibilities

Quality Architecture & Strategy

• Define enterprise test architecture and automation strategy.
• Establish standardized frameworks for UI, API, integration, and performance testing.
• Drive shift-left quality practices and test-driven engineering.
• Design quality gates and release readiness criteria.

Automation Framework Design

• Architect reusable, scalable test automation frameworks.
• Lead CI/CD integration of automated test suites.
• Improve automation reliability, execution speed, and coverage.
• Implement API-first and microservices-based test strategies.

Cloud & Platform Validation

• Design validation frameworks for AWS, Azure, and GCP deployments.
• Lead performance, scalability, and resiliency testing.
• Define quality standards for containerized and Kubernetes environments.
• Partner with DevOps/SRE teams for observability-driven validation.

Governance & Metrics

• Establish quality KPIs and dashboards.
• Drive defect prevention and root cause frameworks.
• Improve release stability and reduce production incidents.
• Align quality metrics with engineering and business outcomes.

Technical Leadership

• Mentor senior QA engineers and automation leads.
• Influence product architecture from a quality perspective.
• Conduct architectural reviews and quality assessments.
• Collaborate with global engineering stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• 12–15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering and Test Architecture roles.
• Strong programming expertise in Java and/or Python.
• Extensive hands-on experience with:
• Test automation frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress
• API automation tools including REST Assured or similar frameworks
• CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps
• Performance testing tools like JMeter or k6
• Containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience working with major cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture and microservices-based environments.

Preferred Qualifications​

• Experience in enterprise cloud migration validation.
• Exposure to observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog).
• Knowledge of security and compliance testing.
• Experience working in global delivery models.

Additional InformationThe recruitment process includes online assessments as a first step - we send them via e-mail, please check also your SPAM folderWork

Location

Strategy Chennai office — full-time, Monday to Friday