Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect

About the role:

We’re seeking a Principal Test & Quality Platform Architect to partner with our functional, stress, and performance testing teams to modernize and scale our enterprise testing approach across on-prem and cloud. You will assess existing tools and processes, remove redundancies, and architect secure, compliant, and cost-efficient solutions that improve reliability and velocity.

What you’ll do:

• Lead an enterprise assessment; define a target-state architecture and roadmap.
• Rationalize tooling and eliminate redundant testing across teams.
• Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, selection, triage, and environment stability while maintaining strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails across on-prem and cloud.
• Build a scalable test platform and integrate security/compliance controls into CI/CD.
• Standardize performance and stress testing practices aligned to SLOs.
• Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance; enable teams through playbooks and consulting.

What you’ll bring:

• 10–15 years in QE/architecture; success leading large-scale testing transformations.
• Deep experience in functional, stress, and performance testing.

Key responsibilities:

• Enterprise discovery and assessment
  • Map current test practices, tools, environments, and data flows across teams and products (on-prem and cloud).
  • Quantify redundancy, flakiness, coverage gaps, runtime hotspots, and security/compliance gaps.
  • Align on requirements with QA, Dev, Program Management, Security, and Compliance.
• Tooling and process rationalization
  • Create a consolidation plan for overlapping tools and duplicated test suites; recommend standard frameworks and patterns per test layer.
  • Define exit criteria and migration paths; minimize disruption while improving signal quality.
• Strategy and Roadmap
  • Define an AI/Ml roadmap for quality engineering working with teams; prioritize use cases, data sources, required guardrails and ROI
• Target-state architecture
  • Design a scalable test platform supporting functional, stress testing: parallelization, ephemeral environments, environment orchestration, and self-service test data services.
• Quality and security by design
  • Integrate quality gates, SAST/DAST/IAST into CI/CD for both on-prem and cloud deployments.
  • Establish compliant test data strategies (masking, synthetic generation, retention, residency).
• Governance, metrics, and enablement
  • Stand up dashboards and evidence trails for audit readiness.
  • Create playbooks, golden paths, and training to enable large testing teams; provide hands-on consulting and reviews.
• Change leadership
  • Build a cross-functional working group; sequence pilots and incremental rollouts.
  • Communicate outcomes and ROI to leadership; guide teams through adoption.

Required qualifications:

• 10–15 years in quality engineering or software architecture, with 5 years consulting or leading large enterprise testing transformations.
• Demonstrated success rationalizing tools and eliminating redundant testing across multiple large teams.
• Deep expertise in functional, stress testing at scale, including methodologies, workload modeling, and environment design.
• Strong CI/CD experience across on-prem and major clouds.
• Solid knowledge of security and compliance controls integrated into pipelines (SAST/DAST/IAST, secrets hygiene, SBOM/signing, license compliance).
• Proficiency with observability (metrics/logs/traces), service virtualization, and test data management.
• Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and change enablement across matrixed orgs

Nice-to-have:

• Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and data/streaming performance testing.
• Experience and or knowledge of AI tools available for testing enterprise scale software