Principal Test Architect

140000 - $175000 / year

Vertafore is a leading technology company whose innovative software solutions are advancing the insurance industry. Our suite of products provides solutions to our customers that help them better manage their business, boost their productivity and efficiencies, and lower costs while strengthening relationships.

Our mission is to move InsurTech forward by putting people at the heart of the industry. We are leading the way with product innovation, technology partnerships, and focusing on customer success.

Our fast-paced and collaborative environment inspires us to create, think, and challenge each other in ways that make our solutions and our teams better.

We are headquartered in Denver, Colorado, with offices across the U.S., Canada, and India.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Principal Test Architect is a senior testing professional whose primary function is to design technical solutions to testing problems for various business and technology application platforms. You will be responsible for understanding architectural and functional design of the application platforms and implementing automation and performance test strategies, testing standards, and working across departments to ensure applications are tested in a manner to meet Vertafore’s quality objectives.

As the automation architect, you will apply your strong experience in refining and implementing our enterprise test automation strategy. In this position, you will help drive our test automation transformation, manage complex initiatives, and implement frameworks to ensure functional, API, integration, and performance automation tests are executed within the CI / CD pipelines.

As the performance test expert, you will apply your expertise to influence a team of performance test engineers in the design, execution, and analysis of performance and scalability testing across Vertafore’s enterprise platform. You will be exposed to many different technologies, architectures, and systems hosted across our hybrid cloud environments and will review existing tools and identify and recommend new technologies to address scalability challenges within the Vertafore platform.

Core Requirements and Responsibilities :

• Provide technical leadership and strategic direction to the testing organization.
• Help develop an overall Quality Assurance Strategy outlining specific tools, strategic approaches, and expectations for web applications and legacy software.
• Be responsible for the creation and development of the Test Architecture.
• Be technically responsible for all Testing performed by the quality organization.
• Ensure software deliverables meet quality goals for functionality, performance, security, usability, etc.
• Help to drive continuous improvement across our software development processes and practices.
• Maintain a holistic view of the portfolio’s dependencies, organizational goals, technologies, etc., and help to direct the quality organization.
• Be responsible for design & development of the test automation framework / harness and any in-house tools required.
• Evaluate and implement new tools, technologies, and processes to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability.
• Work as a member of the Architectural Review Board translating business requirements into solution architecture designs. Ensure designs incorporate testability requirements.
• Participate in test planning for all products and own the test artifacts.
• Ability to lead / mentor a team of performance engineers, enabling them with best-in-class industry-leading performance tools and processes.
• Design an enterprise performance test strategy and assist teams with execution of load, stress, endurance, and response time performance testing.
• Oversee the performance testing, analysis, and optimization of large-scale enterprise solutions.
• Review, develop, and execute performance scripts using JMeter and Locust tools.
• Support and troubleshoot for scalability, high availability, performance, monitoring of the enterprise solutions across multiple cloud environments.
• Take charge of test infrastructure within AWS, including environments and software, and collaborate with teams on CI / CD and IT budgets.
• Assist Quality Director in defining strategic goals and KPIs for the Quality Organization.

Vertafore is a Flexible First working environment which allows team members to work from home as often as you’d like, while using our offices as a place for collaboration, community, and teambuilding. There are times you may be asked to come into an office and / or travel for specific meetings for a specific business purpose and this varies by job responsibilities.

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Salary : $140,000 - $175,000