Automation Lead/Architect 

Job Title:  Automation Lead/Architect 

Location: Rosemead / Alhambra, CA (Onsite)

Job Type: Contract

Visa : GC, USC

Responsibilities

·        Lead multiple automation efforts and influencing others to adopt best practices when applicable.

·        Collaborating with cross-functional teams including application SMEs domain architects, Cyber, Infrastructure and other subject matter experts. Requires coming up to speed rapidly with the SCE organization and key stakeholders.

·        Analyze how systems are being tested manually and identify opportunities to reduce that time and effort through test automation.

·        Design and develop robust automated tests for desktop applications, APIs, shell scripts, and databases to address business and technical use cases.

·        Maintain, support, and extend our in house automation framework and automation suites

·        Design comprehensive approaches and set up process standards for ensuring the quality, scalability, and maintainability of test automation tools and frameworks.

·        Participating in troubleshooting and triaging of issues with different teams to drive towards the root cause identification and resolution.

The essentials:

·        10+ years of hands on experience designing, building and maintaining test automation solutions across multiple platforms using a variety of tools and frameworks

·        5+ years of experience leading successful test automation efforts.

·        Highly proficient in testing and building test automation for desktop applications, APIs, packaged applications, and custom applications

·        Advanced knowledge in testing strategies, test automation approaches, and how to design mature automation frameworks

·        7+ years of experience interfacing, collaborating, and negotiating with team members, all levels of management, different departments, and vendors to develop solutions, facilitate cooperation between different parties, and obtain stakeholder buy-in.

·        Recent hands on experience with one or more programming languages and SQL.(Understanding of relational databases, has the ability to programmatically read/write from the DB using medium complexity SQL queries, comfortable designing and updating relational database structures, etc.). 

·        Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly communicate and articulate to stakeholders and management across multiple business functions.

Nice to have:

·        Prior exposure to or experience automating tests using Tosca,

·        Experience with integrating automation into CI-CD pipelines within large, complex environments.

·        Experience in the utility industry or a similar type of environment.

·        Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.

Rahul Singh

rahul@teknobit.com

Teknobit