Selenium SDET Lead/Architect
- Philadelphia, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Define/update the E2E test strategy to align with business goals and development timelines.
- Enhance the design to acheive a scalable and modular automation framework that supports early testing, mocking, and service virtualization.
- Ensure the framework supports parallel execution, CI/CD integration, and cross-platform testing.
- Advocate for early involvement of SDETs in sprint planning and design discussions.
- Promote testability in architecture by influencing development practices (e.g., exposing APIs, adding hooks).
- Guide teams to use contract testing, API mocks, and feature toggles to enable testing before full integration.
- Collaborate with DevOps to ensure test environments are stable, isolated, and production-like.
- Standardize tools adoption for UI automation, API testing (e.g., RestAssured, Postman), Service virtualization (e.g., WireMock, Mountebank) Test orchestration and reporting (e.g., Allure, TestNG, Jenkins)
- Define coding standards, naming conventions, and test design patterns for automation.
- Conduct code reviews and framework audits to ensure maintainability and reliability.
- Work closely with SDETs, developers, and QA leads to align on test coverage and priorities.
- Mentor SDETs on advanced automation techniques, mocking strategies, and performance testing.
- Analyze test failures and flaky tests to improve stability.
- Introduce AI/ML-based test optimization or smart test selection if applicable.