Test Automation Architect

Werfen - Bedford - 180 Hartwell Road Bedford, Massachusetts 01730 United States

Country

United States

Shift

1st

Werfen

Werfen is a growing, family-owned, innovative company founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain. We are a worldwide leader in specialized diagnostics in the areas of Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant. Through our Original Equipment Manufacturing (OEM) business line, we research, develop, and manufacture customized assays and biomaterials. We operate directly in 30 countries, and in more than 100 territories through distributors.

Our Headquarters and Technology Centers are located in the US and Europe, and our workforce is more than 7,000 strong.

Our success comes from a specific focus in these rapidly evolving diagnostic areas, our commitment to customers, and our dedication to innovation and quality. We’re passionate about providing healthcare professionals the most valuable and complete solutions to improve hospital efficiency and enhance patient care.

Position Summary:

• Senior, hands-on technical role accountable for test automation architecture, frameworks, infrastructure, and engineering standards across Beacon, HCP, EBF, firmware, component, and other software-intensive programs.
• Establish scalable automation spanning component, firmware, API, integration, system, UI, and end-to-end testing.
• Design reusable test infrastructure for physical systems, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments.
• Collaborate with Software, Firmware, Systems, QE, Dev Ops, Cybersecurity, and Architecture teams to promote testability by design and continuous testing.
• Expected to architect, code, prototype, troubleshoot, review designs/code, and technically mentor engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the test automation architecture, strategy, standards, and technical roadmap.
• Build reusable automation frameworks with Python and suitable supporting technologies.
• Develop automation architecture for firmware, components, EBF, subsystems, APIs, integrated systems, and end-to-end workflows.
• Create reusable test libraries, harnesses, simulators, mocks, utilities, and test infrastructure.
• Design automation environments using AWS, VMs, Docker, containers, and physical/virtual test environments.
• Incorporate automation into CI/CD and Dev Ops pipelines.
• Establish automated processes for environment provisioning, configuration, deployment, test execution, result collection, and diagnostics.
• Support parallel and scalable test execution across virtualized/containerized environments.
• Set engineering standards for Git, code reviews, configuration management, logging, diagnostics, traceability, and maintainability.
• Advance testability by design, including APIs, automation interfaces, observability, logging, simulation, and fault isolation.
• Investigate complex failures across software, firmware, infrastructure, networking, and system integration boundaries.
• Minimize flaky tests, environment dependencies, execution time, and automation technical debt.
• Lead architecture and code reviews while providing hands-on technical mentoring to automation engineers.
• Promote reuse of common automation capabilities across programs instead of independent product-specific frameworks.

Core Technologies / Experience

• Python, including framework/library development
• C/C++ and/or C# working knowledge
• Firmware and embedded-system testing
• EBF / engineering build and test frameworks
• AWS / cloud-hosted test infrastructure
• Docker and containerization
• Linux and Windows environments
• CI/CD / Dev Ops
• Jenkins/Gitlab/Bitbucket/AWS/Azure Dev Ops or equivalent pipeline technologies
• Git
• Hardware/software integration
• Test harnesses, simulators and mocks
• Test-data and environment management
• Logging, diagnostics, observability and automated reporting
• Networking fundamentals relevant to distributed/integrated test environments
• SQL/data validation where applicable
• Strong software engineering and architecture mindset, rather than script-based test automation.
• Must be hands-on and capable of designing and coding automation frameworks.
• Experience designing automation that scales across multiple products, environments, and teams.
• Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capabilities across complex integrated environments.
• Ability to modernize legacy automation while maintaining ongoing product verification.
• Demonstrated ability to create reliable, reusable and maintainable automation infrastructure.

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