QE Architect

Primary Responsibilities:

• Define and implement the overall quality engineering strategy, architecture, and framework within the SAFe environment.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to QE teams, promoting best practices and ensuring adherence to quality standards.

• Design and implement the quality engineering framework, including test strategies, plans, and architectures.

• Guide and mentor the QE team in implementing and executing quality engineering practices, including test design, test automation, performance testing, and security testing.

• Collaborate with Solution and System Architects to ensure quality engineering aligns with the overall system architecture.

• Establish and maintain test data management strategies to ensure relevant and representative test data availability.

• Monitor and analyze quality metrics to identify areas for improvement and drive continuous quality enhancement.

• Stay updated with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in quality engineering.

Secondary Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with other QE Architects across ARTs to share best practices, lessons learned, and promote consistency in quality engineering practices.

• Stay updated with emerging trends, tools, and technologies in the quality engineering field and assess their potential impact on the organization.

• Participate in Agile ceremonies, such as Program Increment (PI) Planning, System Demos, and Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshops, providing input and insights related to quality engineering.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the overall quality of engineering capabilities within the organization.

Technical Skills :

• Quality engineering principles, practices, and methodologies.

• Test design, automation, performance testing, and security testing.

• DevOps practices and CI/CD integration.

• Test management, automation frameworks, and performance testing tools.

Soft Skills:

• Leadership and communication.

• Problem-solving and decision-making.

• Mentoring and coaching.

• Collaboration and teamwork

Tool Skills:

• Test management tools (e.g., Jira, qTest, HP ALM, Testrail)

• Test automation frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cucumber)

• Performance testing tools (e.g., Blazemeter, JMeter, LoadRunner)

• Security testing tools (e.g., Veracode, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite)