QA Automation Architect / Automation Framework Engineer

Role Summary

We seek an architect-level Automation Framework Engineer to design, build, and scale enterprise automation frameworks across UI, API, document, and integration-heavy workflows. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience designing frameworks for scale, security, and long-term stability as applications, teams, and delivery pipelines evolve. This role includes AI-assisted QA initiatives using Azure OpenAI, Claude, and Azure DevOps integrations.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable UI automation frameworks using Playwright and Selenium
• Design frameworks supporting multiple teams, applications, environments, and CI/CD pipelines
• Build reusable API and integration testing components (Postman, GraphQL, PactumJS, REST clients)
• Support document-heavy and compliance-driven workflows (disclosure validation, OCR, document intelligence)
• Implement automation observability: logging, diagnostics, flaky test detection, and trend reporting
• Support AI-assisted automation: test generation, regression optimization, and failure triage

Requirements

• Deep hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise automation frameworks
• Advanced coding in TypeScript, JavaScript, or C#
• Strong experience with Playwright, Selenium, or similar frameworks
• Demonstrated CI/CD expertise, preferably with Azure DevOps
• Ability to provide real-world examples of framework design decisions and tradeoffs
• Core Evaluation Areas
• Scale

Candidates must explain how they designed automation frameworks that scaled across teams, applications, and environments. Examples may include scaling test execution across CI/CD pipelines, supporting multiple products from one framework, designing reusable components, and managing test data and environment configuration.

Security

Describe security practices when building frameworks: secure credential management, avoiding hardcoded secrets, role-based access, secure test data handling, pipeline security, and protection of sensitive data.

Stability

Explain how automation remained stable as applications evolved: reducing flaky tests, maintaining reusable selectors, versioning framework components, handling application changes without large rewrites, and separating true defects from automation failures.

Nice to Have

• Mortgage, lending, banking, or FinTech experience
• Experience with compliance-heavy or document-heavy workflows
• Experience with AI-assisted QA, Azure OpenAI, or Claude
• Experience with Azure Document Intelligence
• Experience optimizing regression test selection
• Candidate Screening Guidance

This is an architect-level automation role. Candidates must discuss actual projects where they built, scaled, secured, or stabilized automation frameworks—not just concepts. Strong candidates naturally discuss scale, security, stability, framework architecture, CI/CD integration, and maintenance strategy with real-world examples and tradeoffs.

Candidates unable to provide detailed examples of real projects may not be the right fit.

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