Quality Assurance Architect

The role

The QA Architect owns the vision, strategy, and hands on execution of quality engineering across the Platform, Credential, and Violations portfolios. You will build automation frameworks, write and review test code, and work directly inside squads to unblock teams.

What you will do

• Define and own the enterprise QA vision and long term automation strategy.
• Establish the testing pyramid and automation approach.
• Extend quality tooling roadmap to asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations.
• Build and maintain core automation frameworks and shared test libraries.
• Write and review test code, automation scripts, and test plans.
• Unblock teams by pairing with engineers or running training sessions.
• Perform and guide non functional testing including load, stress, performance, and basic security testing.
• Partner with QA Leads and Tech Leads to implement QA strategy.
• Identify and resolve cross portfolio testing dependencies.
• Represent QA in the Architecture CoE and track quality metrics.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in QA, quality engineering, or software engineering.
• 4+ years focused specifically on test automation strategy and architecture.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Deep, current hands on ability to write production quality automation code.
• Senior level knowledge of testing processes, principles, and techniques at an ISTQB or equivalent depth.
• Proficiency in QA automation and scripting using current tooling.
• Knowledge of non functional testing including load, stress, and endurance testing.
• Basic security testing informed by OWASP fundamentals.
• Practical, current experience with SQL, REST and SOAP APIs, CI/CD tooling, and browser and mobile testing tools.
• Experience designing test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations.
• Working knowledge of test data management and data quality validation practices for shared or regulated datasets.

Nice to have

• ISTQB or ASTQB certification, or a more advanced credential.
• Experience establishing a QA or automation function from an earlier or less mature state.
• Experience in mobility, transportation, tolling, parking, or other high volume transaction processing industries.
• Familiarity with compliance relevant testing considerations such as PCI DSS and data privacy.
• Experience designing regression and cutover test strategies for live system migrations.
• Experience evaluating third party test automation or quality tooling vendors.

About the company

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility that develops technology-enabled solutions to help the world move safely and easily. The company is a dynamic, entrepreneurial organization with a people-first philosophy.