Sr. Architect - SRARCH

Job Title: Automation Lead Location: Onsite in Charlotte, NC Duration: Thru 12/31/2026 Bill Rate: 95/hr. Job Description/ Responsibilities/ Years of experience: • Strong technical skillset with minimum 12+ yrs. experience in test automation across the Tech stack – Web/middleware/database • Experience in UI, Web services and mobile automation • Experience in building custom solutions across Test life cycle – Design/Develop/Test • Perform continuous research in Market Trends, arrange mind share sessions with client on new solutions • Provide automation thought leadership and implement new solutions and framework • Must have 5+ yrs. programming skills in Java, experience in developing new solutions & build/enhance test automation frameworks • Mentor the team, build new solutions • Experience in building engineering metrics and building root cause analysis reports • Lead the team, adopt to DevOps culture, build scalable test automation suite with continuous integration/testing for applications What are the top skills required for this role? • 12+ yrs. of QE and Test automation hands-on experience • Tech stack o Strong knowledge on Java, Jscript o Good knowledge in Python o Strong knowledge Test automation engine – Selenium, Playwright o Strong knowledge in API – REST Assured or other frameworks o CI & build tools - Cucumber, Jenkins, Github, Mavens • Experience in building new Framework & solid understanding of Angular frameworks, spring boot micro-services & Mule gateway • Exposure to GenAI – Copilot or other LLM’s • Hands on experience on test management tools like Rally or other platform tools • Experience in custom solutions like dashboard to report on engineering metrics, program health • Ability to lead automation team and drive client solutions and proposals • Multi location team handling capabilities