Automation Test Architect/Manager (Dublin/Finland)

Overview

You will manage the full project life cycle in terms of Automation deliverable, setting standards for assignments and applications. You will be responsible for the delivery of the defined work packages to the client and provide specialist technical guidance and advice to key business users. You will take technical responsibility for all stages and/or iterations in a project, providing method specific technical advice and guidance to key stakeholders. This role will require you to spend two weeks per quarter in Finland.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for leading technical areas of complex medium scale projects with diverse scope.
• Set standards for data analysis and programming tools and techniques, advise on selection of appropriate methods and their application, and ensure compliance.
• Manage the application of data analysis and data modelling techniques, based upon a detailed understanding of requirements, in order to establish, modify or maintain data structures and their associated components (entity descriptions, relationship descriptions, attribute definitions).
• Provide solutions and uses appropriate tools, including logical models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of system architectures.
• Prepare technical plans and provides advice on technical aspects of system development and integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.) and ensures that relevant technical strategies, policies, standards and practices (including security) are applied correctly.
• Determine criteria for assessing issues and opportunities and identifies relationships and linkages between different information sources.
• Anticipate potential problems and develops solutions needed to resolve them.
• Create quality engineering procedures and user instructions to ensure a reusable process and tools approach.
• Define and implement quality engineering process improvements and metrics.
• Advise on risk assessment and risk management strategies for projects or release level.
• Input into proof of concept exercises and assists sales with pre-sales collateral.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or other related field, or equivalent work experience

Essential skills

• Excellent client-facing skills
• People management skills - introducing and building ways in which people can learn from each other, encouraging mentoring and the transfer of knowledge by designing and delivering learning interventions
• Team work and emotional intelligence
• Good self-management – continuous performance is both an objective and a mind-set
• Has an innovative approach – a bold thinker and doer, matching creativity with vigilance
• Experience of introducing new concepts or strategies that significantly improve or revise the way business is done through to implementation.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills

Desired skills

• Additional course or certification in Quality Engineering
• Certification in NFT Tools such HP QTP, Selenium, HP LR etc.
• Unified Functional Tester (UFT)

Experience

• Strong experience in Tricentis Tosca
• SAP experience – preferably in Sales & Distribution (SD) for sales orders, quotations, and invoicing. Materials Management (MM) for purchase orders and material stock. Financial Accounting (FI) for invoice and approval processes and Project Systems (PS) for project creation.
• Strong knowledge in quality engineering methodologies focused on Automation, CI/CD and dev-ops concepts, applying standards and specialist expertise to deliver.
• Extensive application/technology and tool/framework knowledge and has recognised expertise in several areas.
• Experience in advising clients and clearly communicating the benefits of implementing specific quality engineering solutions and identifying areas to add value.
• Specialisation/experience in multiple automation tools and approaches(UI,API, Middleware) such as  - Selenium, Playwright, UFT,Tosca, Ready API, Rest assured, Postman, Karate
• Expertise in ancillary tool sets for management, CI/CD, source control etc – e.g. Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, Atlassian Jira, Solman, qTest, Github

Benefits

At Expleo, we are committed to providing a competitive salary and substantial benefits offering with unique wellbeing, financial and employee recognition programmes.

We pride ourselves on our diverse and inclusive culture and offer a variety of family friendly policies and enhanced leave to help you achieve a healthy work life balance.

By providing significant learning and development opportunities, we encourage individual growth and succe