- Pune - Maharashtra - Indien
Test Architect
Hello Visionary!
We empower our people to stay resilient and relevant in a constantly changing world. We’re looking for people who are always searching for creative ways to grow and learn. People who want to make a real impact, now and in the future. Does that sound like you? Then it seems like you’d make a great addition to our vibrant team. Siemens founded the new business unit Siemens Foundational Technologies (formerly known as Siemens IoT Services) on April 1, 2019 with its headquarter in Munich, Germany. It has been crafted to unlock the digital future of its clients by offering end-to-end support on their outstanding digitalization journey. Siemens Foundational Technologies is a strategic advisor and a trusted implementation partner in digital transformation and industrial IoT with a global network of more than 8000 employees in 10 countries and 21 offices. Highly skilled and experienced specialists offer services which range from consulting to craft & prototyping to solution & implementation and operation – everything out of one hand.
We are looking for a Test Manager
You’ll make a difference by:
- We are looking for a skilled and motivated Test Architect with proven experience to define and drive the overall test strategy, architecture, and quality engineering framework for next‑generation railway and transportation systems.
- The candidate should be proficient in JavaScript and Python, possess working knowledge of C++, and have experience in both web and desktop application testing. You will lead the testing strategy from design to implementation — ensuring reliability, scalability, and innovation throughout our quality engineering ecosystem.
- Key Responsibilities
- Enterprise Test Strategy & Quality Architecture
- Define and own the end‑to‑end test strategy aligned with product vision, system architecture, and business goals.
- Architect scalable, reusable, and extensible test frameworks across UI, API, desktop, applications.
- Establish a unified quality engineering architecture covering functional, integration, regression, performance, security, resilience, and reliability testing.
- Evaluate and introduce modern testing tools and solutions (AI/ML-based testing, contract testing, etc.).
- Establish enterprise-wide QA governance, coding standards, quality KPIs, and best practices.
- Technical Leadership & Engineering Excellence
- Provide technical leadership to QA, development, and DevOps teams on test practices, automation strategy, and quality engineering principles.
- Conduct architecture reviews, automation audits, and design reviews to ensure long‑term maintainability and scalability of QA solutions.
- Mentor engineers, enabling skill growth in automation, performance engineering, continuous testing, and architectural thinking.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for complex testing challenges involving distributed systems, integrations, data flows, and platform reliability.
- CI/CD, DevOps Integration & Continuous Testing
- Architect automated testing pipelines integrated with CI/CD systems (GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
- Implement automated quality gates, test impact analysis, coverage metrics, and intelligent test execution mechanisms.
- Drive continuous testing practices across all environments, including pre‑commit, PR validation, nightly builds, and pre‑production checks.
- Develop centralized test execution dashboards and reporting solutions for real‑time visibility into quality metrics.
- Advanced Quality Engineering & Problem Solving
- Lead root cause analysis and collaborate with architects and developers to improve system testability and reliability.
- Define strategies for non functional testing performance, load, stress, reliability, and failover testing in collaboration with performance and SRE teams.
- Analyze non‑automatable scenarios; propose architectural or design improvements to enhance automation feasibility.
- Cross‑Functional Collaboration & Strategic Influence
- Collaborate with product, architecture, and development leadership to drive organization-wide quality transformations.
- Represent Quality Engineering in technical councils, architecture boards, and strategic roadmap discussions.
- Drive initiatives like test data management, environment strategy, synthetic data frameworks, and enterprise metrics standardization.
- Required Skills & Qualifications
- 15+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, with at least 5+ years in a Test Architect or similar leadership role.
- Strong hands‑on experience with automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, REST Assured, Appium, etc.).
- Expertise in testing distributed systems, microservices.
- Deep understanding of CI/CD, DevOps, containers, and orchestration tools (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, Locust) .
- Strong knowledge of design patterns, clean code principles, and architectural best practices.
- Excellent communication, technical leadership, and cross‑team collaboration skills.
Desired Skills:
- 15+ years of experience is required.
- Great Communication skills.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
Join us and be yourself!
We value your unique identity and perspective and are fully committed to providing equitable opportunities and building a workplace that reflects the diversity of society. Come bring your authentic self and create a better tomorrow with us.
Make your mark in our exciting world at Siemens.
This role is based in Pune and is an Individual contributor role. You might be required to visit other locations within India and outside. In return, you'll get the chance to work with teams impacting - and the shape of things to come. We're Siemens. A collection of over 379,000 minds building the future, one day at a time in over 200 countries. We're dedicated to equality, and we welcome applications that reflect the diversity of the communities we work in. All employment decisions at Siemens are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Bring your curiosity and imagination and help us shape tomorrow.
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