Senior Architect - Software Automation

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Job Description

Your role:

• Be part of the MR SW Architecture group & represent SW Automation Team as the Test Automation Architect.

• Define, own, and develop the automation test strategy for a product, subsystem, or component of all MR SW programs.

• Contribute to all critical SW Performance & Reliability Roadmap, Strategy and Execution activities.

• Lead estimation, planning, and risk management activities related to test automation.

• Provide technical guidance and review support to the automation team.

• Participate in reviews of automation deliverables.

• Recommend suitable test automation approaches to the team.

• Develop, review, execute, report, and maintain traceability of automation test cases.

• Manage technical communication within the team and with partners/stakeholders.

• Engage in automation improvement initiatives to boost productivity.

• Identify opportunities for test automation in assigned areas.

• Drive the automation work within the team to achieve committed automation coverage.

• Take ownership of test automation for your scope of responsibility.

• Mentor junior testers on automation as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).

• Provide status updates to management on overall automation progress.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor degree in engineering or other relevant discipline

• 12+ years of experience on test discipline, test strategy, test automation

• Very strong Programming skills (preferably C#) is a must.

• Hands on experience with automation framework development

• Good experience on automation tools, scripting languages is required

• Expertise in automation test strategy, test design skills and should be able to guide the team.

• Strong work experience with BDD, Gherkin, Specflow, Visual Studio, N unit framework and API testing is a must.

• Strong experience  in software life cycle management tools like ALM/TFS used for Verification activities.

• Should possess good knowledge in functional, performance, reliability and load testing through automation.

• Should possess good knowledge in development, testing and debugging skills is a must

Additional requirements:

• Experience in healthcare industry is preferred.

• Good understanding of the defect management procedures and tools.

• Good understanding of configuration management & related tools is required.

• Good understanding/experience in SAFe way of working.

• Excellent communication and documentation skills

• Shall possess good influencing skills

• Proactive and self-driven           

• Shall be very good technically

• possess systems mindset and good problem solving abilities

• Coaching capabilities, Openness to collaborate in interest of project/organization

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