Senior Automation Architect

Vidoori, Inc., a rapidly growing small business that specializes in building strong Engineering teams that provide high quality, modern technical solutions to our clients. We are seeking a Senior Automation Architect. As part of our elite team, you will play a pivotal role in the system development cycle and consult with end users to evaluate business requirements into design specifications. You will work with all levels of the business, ensuring IT deliverables align with business requirements, with measurable results. More specifically:

• Design, develop and execute complex automated software test plans in order to identify and address user problems and their causes.
• Analyze risk identifiers and develop documentation addressing software defect diagnostics and proposed solutions in the areas such as database impacts, software scenarios, regression testing, negative testing, retests, or usability.
• Design and develop testing processes and direct software application testing, leveraging knowledge of computer science and software development principles and utilizing cloud technologies, automation tools and frameworks including Selenium and Appium, and programming languages such as JavaScript and Python
• Coordinate the work of project teams along multiple workstreams.
• Develop and execute test scenarios, scripts, and procedures for unit, process, function, system integration, and acceptance testing. Review testing documentation, develop testing standards, define criteria for testing, analyze test results, and present results to developers and end users.
• Develop software quality engineering procedures and strategies including functional, performance, regression, and roll-back testing scenarios, scripts, or procedures.
• Oversee quality testing efforts including process design and standards, effort estimation, resource forecasting and fulfillment, and task and risk management, including functional, performance, regression and roll-back testing.
• Serve as knowledge source for the escalation of complex automated testing application design and development issues and participate as an expert in software redesign process assessing software development projects for quality assurance factors affecting functional requirements and design specifications.
• Work efficiently and with a high level of energy.
• discussing integration with DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, or other tools.
• you will be responsible for designing and implementing cloud-based solutions for our clients utilizing commercial cloud platforms. In this role, you will leverage your expertise in cloud architecture, infrastructure, and services to provide scalable and highly available solutions to meet our clients' business needs. Extensive experience in designing and implementing cloud-based solutions using commercial cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
  • Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, infrastructure, and services including compute, storage, and networking
  • Experience with automation and scripting tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Chef

Must have:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a technical field.
  
• 14+ years of automation architecture experience and a track record of being a difference maker.

• Strong programming skills in at least one of the following languages - Python, JavaScript, Java, or Ruby.
• Strong experience with Appium and/or Selenium.
• Experience in integrating test frameworks with cloud test services, such as SauceLabs or BrowserStack.
• Experience testing web and/or mobile applications.
• Experience writing complex automated tests for web applications using Selenium IDE or a comparable tool.
• Ability to lead and mentor members of the Automation Test team.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Desire and ability to learn new skills and improve upon current skills.
• Ability to comprehend complexity, to fully understand a product with all of its business and technological implications, and to approach the improvement of its quality from that perspective.
• High degree of efficiency and motivation in work habits in a challenging, fast-paced environment. Committed to meeting testing deadlines.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills as well as interpersonal skills, with both technical and non-technical team members.
• Experience with integration with DevOps tools to accelerate discovery of issues

• 14+ years of demonstrated experience in one or more of the following: Python, JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C#
• Demonstrated experience with Continuous Integration, including one or more of the following build/deploy/version control tools:

• Jenkins

• Maven

• Git/Stash/Bitbucket

• Experience in all or some of the following programming platform:

• Linux and Bash scripting

• JavaScript frameworks in HTML5/CSS3 context (AngularJS, jQuery, D3)

• RESTful APIs/JSON

• Mobile development
• Experience working with databases and various data formats and related technologies for testing

Location: Maryland/Washington DC Region

Residency: US Citizenship Required

Clearance: Public Trust

Employment Type: Full-Time