Senior Test Architect

Ztek Consulting
Hillsboro, OR, United States
6 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services JIRA Automation of Tests Cloud Computing Cloud Engineering Configuration Management Continuous Integration Linux DevOps Disaster Recovery Distributed Systems
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Python (Programming Language) E2e Testing Prometheus Test Management Strategies of Testing System Availability Grafana Pytest Gitlab-ci Integration Tests Kubernetes Cucumber (Software) Docker Jenkins Microservices

Job description

Senior Test Architect responsible for defining and leading the quality assurance strategy for an Edge Compute Hosting Platform that enables secure hosting, orchestration, deployment, and lifecycle management of applications across distributed edge environments. The role focuses on platform reliability, security, automation, and cloud-edge integration. Key Responsibilities

  • Define end-to-end test strategy, test architecture, and quality governance.
  • Lead functional, integration, API, system, regression, and end-to-end testing.
  • Validate containerized application hosting, orchestration, workload lifecycle management, and multi-tenancy.
  • Drive cloud-edge integration testing, provisioning, onboarding, configuration management, and OTA updates.
  • Lead non-functional validation including reliability, resiliency, failover, security, observability, and disaster recovery.
  • Establish automated test frameworks and integrate testing into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate with Product, Development, DevOps, and Platform Engineering teams to ensure release readiness and quality metrics.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Quality Engineering experience with 5+ years in a Test Architect/Lead Test Architect role.
  • Experience testing Edge Compute, Cloud-Native, Distributed Systems, or Hosting Platforms.
  • Strong expertise in Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Linux and Embedded Systems platforms.
  • Experience validating microservices, APIs, containers, and cloud-edge deployments.
  • Strong knowledge of security, performance, scalability, and resilience testing.

Tools & Technologies

  • Container & Cloud: Kubernetes, Docker, AWS
  • Test Management: XRAY (Jira), ALM tools
  • Test Automation: Cucumber, PyTest, Robot Framework
  • CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
  • Programming Languages: Python, Go (Basic)
  • Platforms: Linux, Embedded Systems
  • Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana, ELK

Key Competencies

  • Test Strategy & Architecture
  • Cloud-Edge Integration Testing
  • Hosting Platform Validation
  • Automation Framework Design
  • Performance & Security Testing
  • DevOps & Continuous Testing
  • Stakeholder Management & Technical Leadership

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