Technical Architect - Detroit, MI

Technical Architect

Detroit, MI Contract US Citizen, GC Holder, EAD and TN

Job Description:

• Facilitate collaboration across delivery teams to ensure implementation of overall standards, best practices, and continuous improvement topics, such as: unit testing, continuous delivery, code reviews, and test automation
• Collaboratively define quality gates for projects: code coverage, security scans, performance targets, etc.
• Mentor, train, and support other teams and team members for overall testing processes and strategy, automation, performance and load, scalability, high availability, test case/data management, disaster recovery, security, and full integration testing
• Be an advocate for positive technological and quality changes in the enterprise
• Design, create, and build next generation quality focused architectures and concepts
• Ensure a quality-first culture and mindset: organizing knowledge shares, social gatherings, sharing best practices/feedback, and fostering collaborative ideas for helping our communities grow
• Maintain an intense curiosity and devotion to keeping skills current with market trends and researching newer tools/ideas within the industry
• Serve as a subject matter expert on issues that impact product quality, performance, scalability, and system stability
• Effective at facilitating/driving quality for an application: including testing strategy, design, code review, and retrospective sessions - and perform this process for multiple teams and applications

Requirements:

• Experience with C# and Java, from a development background
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Appium, or Cucumber
• Eight years of experience with quality assurance methodologies, Web-based applications, unit testing and automated testing
• Software architecture and design principles experience
• Ability to effectively prioritize and execute on numerous and varied tasks, across multiple high-impact, often time-sensitive environments
• Work with limited direction, in a fast-paced environment and deliver results with consistency and accuracy
• Proficient with Web APIs, Microservices, and SOA
• Experience with source control concepts, and skilled with TFS and/or Git
• Experience adopting and implementing best practices