Experience
Leads test automation strategy across projects or teams. Acts as a technical mentor and decision-maker in the area of quality engineering.
Area of Responsibility
Owns the design and evolution of automation frameworks and pipelines. Leads test architecture initiatives, aligns testing with development and release processes, and ensures quality at scale.
Skills
Test Automation Strategy & Architecture
- Defines test automation strategy for multiple teams or subsystems
- Builds and maintains scalable, reliable, and efficient test frameworks
- Works with flaky tests, environment orchestration, test suite optimization
- Leads decisions on tooling, coverage, and maintenance trade-offs
Programming & Design
- Expert in Java (or another language), including architecture-level patterns
- Combines design patterns (Decorator, Proxy, Adapter, Page Object, MVC)
- Integrates mocking (Mockito), dynamic data generation, API stubbing
Advanced Tooling
- Implements reporting systems (Allure, ReportPortal) from scratch
- Works with advanced test environments (Docker, Selenoid, BrowserStack)
- Debugs test infra issues and optimizes for parallelism and reliability
Test Framework Ownership
- Designs framework configuration: multithreading, parallelism, grouping
- Integrates API/UI/Mobile testing in shared suites
- Maintains reusable modules and shared libraries across projects
CI/CD & DevOps Collaboration
- Owns test stages in CI/CD: planning, triggering, monitoring, feedback
- Works with DevOps to ensure automation stability across environments
- Uses metrics (coverage, velocity, defect leakage) to optimize QA efforts
Leadership & Communication
- Mentors engineers, reviews technical solutions, leads hiring interviews
- Facilitates technical workshops, automation guilds, knowledge sharing
- Aligns testing strategy with product and release goals
- Participates in proof-of-concepts and introduces innovations