Role overview

Sr. Principal, Quality Engineering Architect

Requirements and responsibilities

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Key Job Functions/ Requirements

  • Demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing AI-driven agents to optimize and transform the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC)
  • Strong capability to architect intelligent automation solutions that significantly reduce manual effort across test design, execution, and analysis
  • Proven experience in building specialized AI agents such as quality analyzers, test script generators, execution orchestrators, and regression optimization engines
  • Lead the end-to-end architecture of AI-enabled test automation frameworks, ensuring scalability, reusability, and adaptability
  • Design and develop advanced test infrastructure, including test harnesses, mock services, and data simulation frameworks to enable continuous quality validation
  • Drive AI infusion into quality engineering practices, continuously researching and adopting emerging technologies within Agile/DevOps environments
  • Evaluate, customize, and integrate AI and automation tools with enterprise ecosystems through extensible and scalable solutions
  • Collaborate with enterprise QA and engineering teams to drive innovation initiatives, ensuring successful adoption and measurable impact
  • Establish and enforce automation coding standards and best practices through reviews, governance, and continuous improvement
  • Partner with product and engineering stakeholders to define quality strategies, scope solutions, and design robust validation approaches
  • Champion and embed Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) practices across teams
  • Enable testability and quality by design through refactoring strategies and promoting unit and component-level validations
  • Provide strategic oversight on test environments, infrastructure, and release automation across complex multi-system landscapes
  • Leverage AI and analytics to derive actionable insights from quality metrics, enabling predictive and risk-based testing decisions
  • Drive adoption of observability and monitoring frameworks using logs, metrics, and dashboards to enhance production validation and feedback loops
  • Offer technical leadership in performance, scalability, security, and resilience testing within AI-enabled automation ecosystems
  • Mentor and upskill teams on AI-driven quality engineering practices, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Minimum Experience

  • Minimum of 10 years of experience
  • Strong expertise in designing AI-driven test automation architectures for enterprise systems across UI, API, data, and microservices
  • Experience in leveraging Generative AI (LLMs) for automated test case generation, test data creation, and defect analysis
  • Deep understanding of machine learning concepts including model validation, bias detection, and performance evaluation
  • Proven ability to build self-healing and adaptive automation frameworks that minimize maintenance overhead
  • Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, and JavaScript for AI and automation development
  • Experience integrating AI capabilities into CI/CD pipelines to enable intelligent quality gates and predictive feedback
  • Hands-on experience with modern automation tools like Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, and intelligent automation platforms
  • Strong exposure to cloud-native architectures and services (Azure, AWS, GCP) including containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
  • Capability to design and implement data-driven testing strategies using analytics and historical defect patterns
  • Expertise in test data management using AI techniques, including synthetic data generation and dynamic data provisioning
  • Experience in testing AI/ML systems, including data pipelines, model outputs, drift detection, and explainability validation
  • Ability to define and implement risk-based testing strategies using predictive analytics and AI insights
  • Strong understanding of MLOps and DevOps practices, integrating testing into model lifecycle and production monitoring
  • Experience in designing observability-driven quality frameworks, using logs, metrics, and traces to improve test coverage
  • Proven ability to drive AI-led quality transformation, mentor teams, and introduce innovative automation practices at scale
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