Software Test Automation Architect

Overview

Position Summary:

• Senior, hands-on technical role accountable for test automation architecture, frameworks, infrastructure, and engineering standards across Beacon, HCP, EBF, firmware, component, and other software-intensive programs.
• Establish scalable automation spanning component, firmware, API, integration, system, UI, and end-to-end testing.
• Design reusable test infrastructure for physical systems, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with Software, Firmware, Systems, QE, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Architecture teams to promote testability by design and continuous testing.
• Expected to architect, code, prototype, troubleshoot, review designs/code, and technically mentor engineers.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Own the test automation architecture, strategy, standards, and technical roadmap.
• Build reusable automation frameworks with Python and suitable supporting technologies.
• Develop automation architecture for firmware, components, EBF, subsystems, APIs, integrated systems, and end-to-end workflows.
• Create reusable test libraries, harnesses, simulators, mocks, utilities, and test infrastructure.
• Design automation environments using AWS, VMs, Docker, containers, and physical/virtual test environments.
• Incorporate automation into CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.
• Establish automated processes for environment provisioning, configuration, deployment, test execution, result collection, and diagnostics.
• Support parallel and scalable test execution across virtualized/containerized environments.
• Set engineering standards for Git, code reviews, configuration management, logging, diagnostics, traceability, and maintainability.
• Advance testability by design, including APIs, automation interfaces, observability, logging, simulation, and fault isolation.
• Investigate complex failures across software, firmware, infrastructure, networking, and system integration boundaries.
• Minimize flaky tests, environment dependencies, execution time, and automation technical debt.
• Lead architecture and code reviews while providing hands-on technical mentoring to automation engineers.
• Promote reuse of common automation capabilities across programs instead of independent product-specific frameworks.

Core Technologies / Experience

• Python, including framework/library development
• C/C++ and/or C# working knowledge
• Firmware and embedded-system testing
• Component/subsystem automation
• EBF / engineering build and test frameworks
• AWS / cloud-hosted test infrastructure
• Virtual Machines / virtualization
• Docker and containerization
• Linux and Windows environments
• CI/CD / DevOps
• Jenkins/Gitlab/Bitbucket/AWS/Azure DevOps or equivalent pipeline technologies
• Git
• REST/API automation
• Hardware/software integration
• Test harnesses, simulators and mocks
• Test-data and environment management
• Logging, diagnostics, observability and automated reporting
• Networking fundamentals relevant to distributed/integrated test environments
• SQL/data validation where applicable

Expectations

• Strong software engineering and architecture mindset, rather than script-based test automation.
• Must be hands-on and capable of designing and coding automation frameworks.
• Experience designing automation that scales across multiple products, environments, and teams.
• Ability to operate across firmware → component → application → system → cloud test layers.
• Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capabilities across complex integrated environments.
• Ability to modernize legacy automation while maintaining ongoing product verification.
• Demonstrated ability to create reliable, reusable and maintainable automation infrastructure.

Qualifications

Min Knowledge & Experience Required for the Position:

• Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 8 years of related experience or waiver based on experience. Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science.
• Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages.
• Ability to administer software engineering tools; configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
• Ability to operate instrumentation.
• Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.
• Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, etc.) found in product development.

Skills & Capabilities:

• Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages
• Ability to administer software engineering tools; configuration management, requirements management, and defect management
• Ability to operate instrumentation
• Possesses strong written and oral communications skills
• Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers

Travel Requirements: