QA Architect
Contour Software21 days ago
Karachi, PakistanSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the test automation strategy, roadmap, Playwright framework, automation standards, coding guidelines, and review practices.
- Design and build scalable Playwright test suites in TypeScript covering smoke, core regression, release regression, functional, API, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Assess manual test inventories and prioritize tests for automation, redesign, consolidation, retention, or retirement.
- Partner with Development and DevOps to improve automated regression pipelines, environments, test data, and parallel execution.
- Apply and govern AI-assisted testing tools while ensuring generated tests and scripts meet framework, validation, and security standards.
- Improve framework health by addressing flaky tests, technical debt, duplicated automation, unstable execution, maintenance overhead, upgrades, and migrations.
- Build, mentor, and develop a QA team through standards, coaching, delegation, hiring, onboarding, performance expectations, and succession planning.
- Define risk-based testing practices, release readiness criteria, quality gates, dashboards, and KPIs.
- Lead root cause analysis of escaped defects and support validation and compliance activities in a regulated software environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 5 years of software quality assurance and testing experience.
- Expert-level experience building enterprise-scale test automation frameworks with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or comparable tools.
- Strong TypeScript or JavaScript and software engineering skills, including Git, API testing, SQL, debugging, and code review.
- Strong knowledge of automation design patterns, reusable components, modular architecture, data-driven testing, and BDD.
- Experience integrating automated regression testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or comparable platforms.
- Experience scaling automation through coaching, standards, and delegation, as well as using quality metrics, dashboards, and KPIs.
- Experience testing complex web-based enterprise applications in Agile environments.
- Preferred qualifications include Playwright and TypeScript expertise, QA team or large-scale testing leadership, regulated-industry experience, GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 knowledge, TFVC-to-Git migration experience, AI or machine learning testing experience, performance or security testing knowledge, and ISTQB, CSTE, or CSQA certification.
Benefits
- Market-leading salary, medical coverage for employees and dependents, parents' medical coverage, and a provident fund.
- Employee performance-based bonuses, profit sharing for tenured employees, life benefits, and leave encashment.
- Home internet subsidy, conveyance allowance, child care facility, and company-provided lunch and dinner.
- Professional development budget, sporadic on-shore training opportunities, recreational in-house games, and a friendly work environment.
- The role is based in Contour Software's Karachi office.
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About Contour Software
Contour Software provides R&D, QA, customer support, and professional services for vertical‑market enterprise applications across Constellation Software Inc.’s global portfolio. It builds, maintains, and supports mission‑critical software used by public- and private‑sector organizations via CSI’s operating companies, functioning as an internal service provider rather than a direct vendor. Headquartered in Karachi with offices in Lahore and Islamabad, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Toronto‑based Constellation Software.