TA Architect

Key Accountabilities

assess/identify
- needs in TA area across projects
- tools
- technologies for implementation that align with busines goals, current infra and team skills
define
- strategic direction for testing by providing
  - guidance
  - feedback
  - suggesion to improve quality practices accross the entire engineering team (doing more with less)
- standards for
  - automation process
  - tools and their usage (best way to implement those tools)
  - who will maintain the tool
  - sofware development and testing
- test automation blueprints(kickstart projects) for
  - web
  - mobile apps
  - databases
  - infrastructure
- project task related to test automation with estimates
design and develop
- test architecture to be used across platforms
  - test automation frameworks
  - code libraries
- the whole testing infrastructure
owns
- technical TA related architecture, design across products.
ensure
- related technical development follows TA strategy across products
- corporate policies are applied and enforced on TA side
monitor
- the effectiveness of the testing function at all stages of the SDLC
review
- test code
- artefacts generated
- new technologies and tools
supports and mentor
- engineers in defining test automation projects
- share knowledge in workshop session(s)

at least 8-10 years testing experience
assess current business process and identify problems
desire to start and maintain end to end TA process/frameworks
high attention to details
in-depth knowledge of the
- current industry-wide testing techniques,
- tools
- methodologies
- practices
effective communication between teams/client with ability to delegate
determined problem solver
social skills
leadership skills
software analysis and design
creative thinking
solid background in software quality and testing
profound coding and test automation skills
kean on documenting flow charts, context diagram or other architectures
project management skills
knowing
- differed testing types:
  - functional
    - Unit
    - Integration
    - Contract testing
    - Smoke Testing
    - Sanity Testing
    - Acceptance Testing
    - Regression Testing
    - System Testing
    - others
  - non functional testing as
    - Performance Testing,
    - Security Testing
    - Disaster Recovery Testing
    - others
- differed testing approaches:
  - Kewyord Driven
  - Data Driven
  - TDD/ATDD
  - BDD
  - Hybrid
  - Model Based
- development best practices
  - TDD
  - paterns
  - linters
  - code simplicity
  - code coeherence
- devOps practices
  - Continuous Testing
  - Continuous Integration
  - Continuous Delivery
  - Continuous Deployment
  - Continuous Monitoring
  - Infrastucture as Code