Senior Test Architect (JIRA/Zephyr/Playwright/FTE)

Are you an experienced, passionate pioneer in technology who wants to work in a collaborative environment? As an experienced Test Architect, you will have the ability to share new ideas and collaborate on projects as a consultant without the extensive demands of travel. The Project Delivery Talent Model is designed for professionals with specialized skills that align to a current client’s need. Team members focus on delivering services to clients, without additional expectations related to business development or promotion. Their employment is tied to their role on a project, and they are eligible for a benefits package that is competitive for project delivery-focused professionals.

Day to Day job Duties: (what this person will do on a daily/weekly basis)

• Define the overall testing strategy and quality assurance approach for the project.
• Design and maintain test automation frameworks to improve efficiency and coverage
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and delivery.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring to QA Engineers, SDETs, and testing teams.
• Track and report quality metrics, risks, defects, and release readiness to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with developers, architects, product owners, and DevOps teams to ensure high-quality software delivery.
• Work with other stake holders like technical project managers to Review Project Scope (in PTS) and Project Feature (on Confluence) documents to determine whether end-to-end (ETE) testing is needed; use the JIRA TA Dashboard and targeted queries to confirm all impacted Scrum Teams.
• When end-to-end (ETE) testing is required, align Business Analysts, the Business Sponsor, and testing teams on scenarios, impacted teams, and open questions; target full scenario sign-off at least one week before UAT/Unified Testing.
• Coordinate Testbed (TBED) criteria-pull readiness for UAT1/UAT2 in line with the Release Calendar, and drive Test Data Management (TDM) preparation through the designated SharePoint site.
• Initiate the Test Plan Input in the first impacted Sprint; help teams prepare stories and scripts in the correct Zephyr Release Fix Version aligned to JIRA or use the required Excel-based process for non-Zephyr teams.
• Lead Unified Testing communications and execution oversight: distribute status updates at a cadence suited to project risk, monitor progress for slippage, and intervene early to protect release milestones.
• Oversee JIRA defect health and resolution accountability, validates Zephyr release readiness, and lead testing closure by preparing the TER Readiness Checklist and creating the Test Exit Report (TER).

Basic Qualifications: (what are the skills required to this job with minimum years of experience on each)

• 8+ years of overall experience as testing professional
• 4+ years of experience in test management or test architecture roles supporting multi-team release programs.
• 5+ years of Extensive experience coordinating testing across multiple teams and release milestones.
• 4+ years of Experience with JIRA and Zephyr, or equivalent test management tools, including fix-version alignment and dashboarding.
• 4+ years of Facilitation skills, with experience aligning business, testing, and delivery stakeholders.
• 5+ years of Experience producing release-level testing artifacts, such as Test Plans, TER Readiness Checklists, and Test Exit Reports.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with test-data management and test-environment management.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with test automation tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Playwright, Cypress, UFT/QTP, and/or TestComplete.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with API testing using tools and technologies such as Postman, REST Assured, SoapUI, and/or GraphQL testing.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience using test frameworks such as TestNG, JUnit, NUnit, PyTest, and/or Cucumber.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience designing and maintaining functional, regression, integration, API, database, and end-to-end automated test suites.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Minimum 4+ years of experience with CI/CD and DevOps technologies such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, and/or Bamboo

Travel: NA

Degree: Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or related IT discipline; or equivalent experience.

Nice to Have; (But not a must)

• Project experience in Banking domain.

NTT DATA is a $30 billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. our consulting and Industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 50 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is a part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.