QA Architect

Description

At KMS Technology, we are dedicated to delivering cutting\-edge solutions and services that empower businesses to achieve their goals. Our team is composed of highly skilled professionals who are passionate about technology and innovation. We provide a dynamic and collaborative work environment where you can grow your career and make a significant impact. ### **Responsibilities** We are seeking a **QA Architect** to lead the testing strategy and quality direction for a major IDP migration effort. This role requires deep technical expertise, strong communication skills, and the ability to think holistically about **how systems evolve over time**. You will work closely with engineering, DevOps, product, and security teams to ensure our migration and modernization efforts are executed with **minimal risk**, high reliability, and clarity of testing approach. You will not only guide what needs to be tested, but also why and how, ensuring test architecture, tooling, data flows, and CI/CD processes support the long\-term direction of the platform. This includes shaping test frameworks, leading testing strategy across multiple teams, and mentoring engineers to elevate quality practices at scale. Responsibilities: * Define and lead the **end\-to\-end test strategy** for a phased platform migration, ensuring clarity on the current state, target state, and transition approach. * Architect **scalable and reusable** test automation frameworks (component, integration, end\-to\-end, API, and performance). * Collaborate with engineering leadership to determine **what tests need to be built, what needs to coexist, and where risk is highest.** * Work closely with teams involved in **IDP migration** (e.g., Okta Auth0\), ensuring test coverage accounts for user action flows and identity management behavior. * Ensure test automation supports and **is fully integrated into CI/CD workflows** (GitHub Actions). * Guide testing related to **data migration**, ensuring validation of behavior, state, and compatibility across existing and new systems. * Support testing for **SOCKS\-relevant** connectivity to ensure compliance and traceability. * Partner with platform and DevOps teams on testing implications related to **AWS**, **Kubernetes/AKS,** and environment configuration. * Lead migration risk discussions: determine what changes now, what remains, and how to reduce disruption. * Provide architectural direction for automation tooling (e.g., **Playwright**, API test frameworks). * Mentor and advise a **Quality Engineering organization** individuals, elevating testing maturity and technical capability. * Measure and report test automation metrics, including code, function, and test case coverage. * Operate autonomously, even within a loosely\-defined scope. * Require very little oversight beyond high level direction. * Show initiative beyond knocking tasks off a list and able to identify their own areas of future work for themselves and their team. * Work effectively within a team environment, to regularly solicit and act on feedback, focus on root causes, and continually strive to improve. * Review code throughout the software development lifecycle. * Create tools that can be used by others. * Take part in software design discussions and planning discussions. ### **Qualifications** * **7\+ years of experience** in Software Quality Engineering, Test Automation, or Software Engineering roles, with significant experience guiding test strategy. * Ability to work in a fast\-paced, iterative development environment with short turn\-around times. * Demonstrated ownership of **test architecture** for large\-scale system migrations or modernization projects. * **Good understanding of Service Oriented Architecture.** * **Experience with client\-side performance optimization, security, and accessibility.** * Strong experience designing and implementing **test frameworks** (Playwright or similar UI/API automation tools). * Engineering practices such as refactoring, TDD, pair programming, and code reviews. * Deep understanding of CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) and how authentication dependencies influence automated testing. * Experience working with **authentication identity providers**, ideally authentication migrations (e.g., **Okta Auth0**). * Strong SQL knowledge and experience working with **MySQL and PostgreSQL.** * Familiarity with cloud and orchestration environments such as **AWS** and **Kubernetes / AKS.** * Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to work closely with product, engineering, and platform teams. * Strong ability to prioritize based on **risk**, impact, and business milestones. * Experience working in **Agile environments** and guiding multiple teams on testing best practices. * Strong analytical and problem\-solving skills. * Well\-versed in programming languages (Ruby/Rails, Javascript, Go, or Python). ### **Benefits and Perks** **Location:** Guadalajara,Jalisco, Mexico (working from home \- office won't be mandatory all the time, rather it will required from time to time).