Principal Test Architect

About us:

We are a highly successful 190-year-old, Fortune 500 commercial property insurance company of 6,000+ employees with a unique focus on science and risk engineering. Businesses worldwide trust our expertise to protect their assets, relying on our comprehensive risk assessments and robust, engineering-based insurance solutions to safeguard against fire, natural disasters, and other perils. Serving over a quarter of the Fortune 500 and major corporations globally, we deliver data-driven strategies that enhance resilience, ensure business continuity, and empower organizations to thrive.

FM India is a strategic location for driving our global operational efficiency. Our presence in India allows us to leverage the countrys talented workforce and advance our capabilities to serve our clients better. We have diverse corporate functions that emphasize research, advanced technologies like AI and analytics, risk engineering, research, finance, marketing, HR, etc. working together to provide innovative solutions and nurture lasting relationships from co-workers to clients.

Role Title: Principal Test Architect

Position Summary:

The Principal Test Architect serves as an expert on agile teams to guide team in determining strategies for building quality into the agile software development process. This includes: automation of appropriate aspects of quality assurance given a technology products architecture, volatility, and lifecycle stage; functional and ad hoc testing which may be manual; and other types of testing of non-functional requirements such as performance testing. Individuals in this role will help drive a quality/testing mindset within the team.

This role combines the technical aspects of software engineering with state of the art test automation leadership capabilities. Individuals in this role will require strong leadership skills and the ability to influence a variety of stakeholders on the importance and appropriateness of test automation. Individuals in this role are responsible for promoting best practices in the areas of test automation and manual testing, and for improving application quality and services by building software solutions, automation, frameworks, and manual test processes for agile teams to test their products.

Individuals in this role work in a rapid, iterative environment with short feedback loops, and focus on identifying and prioritizing opportunities for test automation, implementing automation practices and technologies in the agile team, and planning for conducting manual testing as appropriate. Individuals in this position will also be responsible for leading other developers in building test automation into their solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assist Chapter in researching, recommending, implementing, andmaintaining automated and manual testing frameworks and tools.
• Assist agile test in identifying highest value opportunities for testautomation, and where manual testing continues to be appropriate.
• Identify appropriate testing technologies to meet the goals of the Agile organization while focusing on the simplest and most effective solution tomeet the defined needs for each team.
• Identify areas where test automation would add the highest value and then prioritize/automate testing through the efficient creation/maintenance ofquality automation code.
• Collaborate with team members to build highly maintainable and reusable automation modules, following best practices and standards in testing andcode health.
• Develop innovative methods to find solutions and improve quality, testefficiency, and regressions coverage.
• Highly skilled professional with development as well as testing knowledge with proven ability to educate team members on test automation and driveadoption.
• Create automation test scripts/code with inputs and expected results as part of a test framework in support of test automation within the agiledevelopment process.
• Develop code using Object-Oriented programming practices and designpatterns for automated tests according to test scripts and expected results.
• Develop test automation solutions from scratch.
• Develop mocks/stubs to facilitate unit/integration testing.
• Assist developers in reviewing and determining the completeness of unit test code coverage.
• Collaborate with the CICD team members to integrate automation test codeinto the pipeline process. Octopus experience a plus.
• Partner with solution architects, developers, quality assurance specialistsand other team members to improve and automate test processes.
• Interpret automation test results and prepare comprehensive metrics andtest reports.
• Support integration, functional, regression, UI, security, load/stress,performance, and reliability testing efforts and associated analysis.
• Contribute to designing and implementing strategies to manage test data foremergent architectures and agile development.
• Design test scenarios, acceptance criteria and test data.
• Conduct manual testing as appropriate.
• Plan for and conduct performance testing and other types of non-functional testing as needed.
• Identify and track defects; work with developers, quality assurancespecialists, and business analysts to identify and isolate issues
• Communicate with product, design and technical stakeholders.

Skill and Experience:

• 8+ years of experiencerequired to perform essential job functions.
• Additional Experience Qualifier (optional): 8+ years of experience business applications quality assurance with emphases in test automation engineering.
• Experience in leading teams in determining test automation strategies, plans, and metrics. Determination of what to automate and what to leave manual.
• Experience influencing multiple teams in the successful implementation of test automation strategies while continuously promoting the adoption of new technologies, and coding design patterns for software automation.
• Persuasion of product owners and developers across an agile organization to design, develop, and execute effective test automation capabilities and build quality into business technology solutions.
• Advancement of quality/testing mindset.
• Proven experience with the evaluation of efficiency and effectiveness of testing design patterns, test automation tools and processes.
• Proven experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies and automation for large and complex business systems.
• Proven experience creating/maintaining complex test data sets.
• Experience proposing new forms of data and metrics to allow the team to make decisions on where to focus and improve our tests.
• Strong Development skills in C#, JavaScript, PowerShell and SQL.
• Extensive experience in developing, executing and monitoring automated test suites using MS Test, NUnit, TestNG, Cucumber/SpecFlow, Selenium and Postman.
• Knowledge of desktop test automation tools also desired.
• Agile mindset and fast to adapt to change.
• Excellent communication, and time management skills.
• Must demonstrate ability and desire to continually learn.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving skills and out-of-the box thinking.
• Expert in the following types of automated testing: unit, integration of APIs, UI, performance and scalability, security and data management.

Must Have Skills:

• Proficient in programming languages such as C#, JavaScript and test tools for UI and API testing
• Proven experience planning, designing, and implementing testing strategies, test plans and automation for large and complex business systems.
• Strong engineering capability to design and implement CICD ready automation frameworks and reusable modules that scale across teams and stay maintainable over time.
• Experience applying AI safely and effectively across the testing process.
• Ability to ensure software quality through structured testing practices.

Education and Certifications:

4 Year / Bachelors Degree required

Work location:Bengaluru