Job Description
Role :QA Lead
Hybrid St Louis MO/Dallas TX /NYC NY
Contract
Look for candidate with Kafka, AWS experience
Job Summary
- We are seeking a highly experienced QA Automation Architect with strong expertise to define and drive enterprise-wide quality engineering, test automation, reliability, observability, and performance engineering strategies. The ideal candidate will lead the architecture and implementation of scalable automation frameworks, reliability engineering practices, CI/CD quality gates, and cloud-native testing solutions to ensure high availability, resilience, and product quality.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Engineering & Test Architecture
- Define enterprise QA strategy, standards, and testing best practices.
- Design scalable automation frameworks for web, API, mobile, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
- Establish quality gates throughout the SDLC and CI/CD pipelines.
- Drive shift-left and shift-right testing practices.
- Develop and govern test automation architecture across multiple product teams.
Automation Framework Development
- Architect and implement automation solutions using Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Rest Assured, and other modern testing tools.
- Establish reusable automation frameworks and libraries.
- Develop API, integration, end-to-end, regression, and data validation automation.
- Drive test data management and environment management strategies.
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
- Define Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and Error Budgets.
- Establish reliability engineering practices across development and operations teams.
- Drive production monitoring, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Improve system resilience, scalability, and fault tolerance.
- Lead chaos engineering and resilience testing initiatives.
- Define operational readiness criteria for releases.
Performance & Reliability Engineering
- Design and implement performance, load, stress, endurance, and scalability testing strategies.
- Establish capacity planning and performance benchmarking frameworks.
- Monitor application performance and optimise system reliability.
- Identify bottlenecks and drive performance improvements across platforms.
DevOps & CI/CD Integration
- Integrate automation suites into CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement continuous testing across development, testing, and production environments.
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve deployment reliability.
- Ensure automated quality gates before production deployments.
Observability & Monitoring
- Implement enterprise observability solutions using monitoring and logging platforms.
- Establish dashboards, alerting mechanisms, and operational metrics.
- Drive proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve application telemetry and diagnostics.
Technical Leadership
- Mentor QA engineers, SDETs, Automation Leads, and SRE teams.
- Conduct architecture reviews and establish testing governance.
- Drive adoption of engineering excellence and quality-first culture.
- Collaborate with architects, product owners, delivery managers, and engineering leadership.
Required Skills
- Test Automation
- Selenium WebDriver
- Playwright
- Cypress
- Appium
- Rest Assured
- Karate Framework
- TestNG / JUnit
Programming Languages
- Java
- Python
- JavaScript / TypeScript
- SQL
- SRE & Reliability Engineering
- SLI / SLO Definition
- Error Budget Management
- Incident Management
- RCA (Root Cause Analysis)
- Capacity Planning
- Chaos Engineering
- Reliability Engineering Practices
Cloud Platforms
- AWS
- Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
DevOps & CI/CD
- Jenkins
- GitHub Actions
- GitLab CI/CD
- Azure DevOps
- ArgoCD
Observability Tools
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- ELK Stack
- Datadog
- Splunk
- New Relic
- Dynatrace
Performance Testing
- JMeter
- Gatling
- LoadRunner
- K6
Container & Orchestration
Kubernetes
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
Job Tags
Contract work, Shift work