Principal architect - Quality engineering

Role: Principal architect - Quality engineering

Location: Madison, WI, USA.

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

• Responsible for supporting Sales & Business Development activities through creation of complex, holistic solution architectures in area of Test automation.
• Directly engage with customers to understand their business needs and develop solution strategies and technology roadmaps.
• Collaboration with industry teams, domain consulting teams in developing end-2-end solutions that suit current and futuristic needs of our clients.
• Clearly articulate the solution proposition and business value and take end to end ownership of solution response.
• Create, respond to and deliver on clients' requests (e.g. RFPs, RFQs, etc.) with Solution Architects and solutioning teams.
• Consult clients during solution implementation stages and be accountable for the end product meeting business and tech outcomes.
• Take a lead in helping our clients drive end-to-end transformation across business lines, technologies, processes and people to unlock and create significant business value
• Support acquisition of new clients, showcase pre sales skills and support the expansion of new or existing accounts. Play a crucial role across all stages of the pursuit lifecycle.
• Infuse nextGen QA thinking (Create Points of View and re-usable solution constructs) into our client engagements.
• Contribute to building the Technology Ecosystem through qualification of emerging technologies
• Leverage Cognizant platform and solution offerings and frameworks and customize in business solution to accelerate solution development and reduce time to market
• Actively participate in industry forums, peer groups, standards bodies and research groups
• Publish whitepapers, articles in preferred journals and present in industry leading conferences/forums
• Undertake Technology/Architectural consulting engagements with strategic customers
• Build relationships with Customer's business & technology SMEs and leadership

Skills & Experience

• 12+ years of IT experience and at least 5 years of experience working with senior level clients in a software testing services solutioning role. Experience across multiple industry sectors is preferable.
• Good understanding of the testing market, the competitive landscape and the client demand in the country and regional market
• Excellent Testing Service Solution development experience; in addition to traditional enterprise software testing solutions.
• 5-7 years of providing customer technical solutions and consulting for business problems.
• Knowledge of the industry trends, customer challenges, potential opportunities in various technology areas.
• Must have good understanding of test automation, Agile/DevOps, and Onsite/Offshore service delivery models
• Demonstrate thought leadership in advanced/NextGen testing and software quality space: Ability to formulate conceptual solutions. Preferably with public/industry presentation experience.
• Ability to consult and interface at VP/CXO decision makers across marketing, sales and technology organizations within client organizations
• Strong oral and written communication skills along with executive presentation and persuasion skills
• Strategic thinker, who has a vision for the future of testing and is able to 'think out of the box'
• Meticulous worker who gets things done and has a 'whatever it takes' attitude.
• Working knowledge of business English and regional working experience
• Outstanding communication and people skills, in English as well as local languages
• Bachelor's degree or higher required

Primary Skills Required:

• Knowledge on leading test automation tools, API, Performance testing, Selenium, Appium, cypress, Tosca and Java, API documentation, Establishing metrics and KPIs