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Automation Architect - Staff Engineer
full-time•Chennai, Bengaluru
About this role
Job Description:
Job Title: Staff Engineer - Automation Architect
Job Summary
We are seeking a seasoned and visionary Automation Architect to define, evolve, and drive the automation, quality, and test infrastructure strategy for our Engineering teams. This strategic role goes beyond framework development, enabling a culture of quality, scalability, and innovation through modern automation practices, metrics, tooling, and cross-team collaboration. You will work closely with product teams building and testing solutions across Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS.
Core Responsibilities
Strategy, Leadership & Enablement
- Define and evolve the test automation and quality strategy in partnership with engineering and leadership.
- Standardize and consolidate processes, tools, and frameworks for automated testing, CI/CD, and quality gates that scale across all major platforms.
- Establish, track, and report organizational metrics such as code coverage and test pass rates to measure automation adoption and quality outcomes.
- Develop clear documentation, guidelines, and training to empower teams to independently build and maintain automated tests.
Frameworks & Shared Libraries
- Architect, build, and maintain reusable, scalable, and robust test frameworks and shared libraries for product teams working across Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS.
- Guide and review implementation of test suites to ensure consistency, maintainability, and best practices.
Consulting, Support & Collaboration
- Act as a consultant to developer teams, offering onboarding, troubleshooting, and expert guidance on automation tools and approaches.
- Lead workshops, office hours, and training sessions to upskill and support teams in automation across diverse environments.
- Engage cross-functionally, especially for end-to-end and interoperability scenarios, to drive automation improvements.
- Partner with feature teams from the design phase to ensure testability and proactive creation of automated tests.
Continuous Integration & Delivery (CI/CD) Pipeline Management
- Design, implement, and optimize CI/CD pipeline templates for robust, reliable, and scalable delivery cycles supporting multi-platform development.
- Ensure all test stages (unit, component, integration, end-to-end) are automated, stable, and properly integrated within pipelines.
Metrics, Quality Gates & Process Improvement
- Set up and monitor organization-wide metrics (test coverage, execution stability, pipeline performance, etc.).
- Deliver quarterly executive reports on automation impact, efficiency gains, and integrate feedback for continuous improvement.
- Implement and refine quality gates and reporting dashboards to drive ongoing enhancements.
Test Infrastructure Ownership
- Architect, implement, and maintain scalable test infrastructure including on-premise, virtualized, and cloud environments to support product teams working across multiple platforms.
- Provide documentation and support to enable developers to self-manage test environments.
- Continuously evaluate new tools and technologies to optimize automation efficiency and reliability.
- Lead forward planning for language/platform migrations (e.g., C/C++ to Rust), ensuring automation coverage and tooling are maintained or improved throughout transitions.
Qualifications
- 10+ years in software engineering, automation engineering, quality assurance, or technical leadership roles.
- Deep knowledge and hands-on experience architecting automation solutions for Windows, Linux, MacOS, iOS, Android, and Chrome OS platforms.
- Demonstrated success developing and scaling automation and CI/CD strategies.
- Expertise in designing maintainable test frameworks, shared libraries, and automation infrastructure.
- Experience with metric collection, reporting dashboards, and implementing quality gates.
- Proficiency in industry-standard CI/CD tools and scripting/programming languages.
- Advocacy for using AI-driven developer tools (e.g., Copilot, automated test generation).
- Strong background in technical writing, training, and mentoring.
- Effective collaboration, workshop leadership, and consulting skills.
- Experience with cloud, on-prem, and hybrid infrastructure provisioning.
- Experience with automation strategy for technology/language migrations is a plus.
What you'll do
- The Automation Architect will define and evolve the automation and quality strategy for engineering teams, standardizing processes and tools across platforms. They will also architect and maintain test frameworks and provide consulting support to developer teams.
About Omnissa
Omnissa® is the digital work platform leader, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide as the former VMware End-User Computing business.
We make digital work, work – for businesses and their people. No painful IT processes or productivity trade-offs. Instead, a seamlessly delivered digital employee experience that simplifies work. Our comprehensive digital work platform enables IT teams to provide secure, personalized experiences for every employee, on any device. Omnissa unifies, automates, and efficiently scales the digital workspace. By empowering employees to do their best work, anywhere, we help workforces everywhere unlock exponential business value.
All is made possible with the Omnissa platform, the first AI-driven digital work platform for smart, seamless, and secure work experiences from anywhere. It integrates multiple industry-leading solutions across unified endpoint management (UEM), virtual desktops and apps, digital employee experience (DEX), and security and compliance. By continuously adapting to users’ work styles, Omnissa optimizes user experience, security, IT operations and costs.
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