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RESPONSIBILITIES:Kforce has a client in Atlanta, GA that is seeking an Automation Architect.
Automation and Development Duties (50%): The Automation Architect will establish and maintain automation tooling and standards Identify automation opportunities Lead efforts to codify automation Coordinate automated tasks across different technology domains Lead automation projects, POC's and new initiatives Responsible for creation of test automation framework on a program level using best practices and suitable automation tools stackConsultation Duties (20%): Collaborate with application managers to establish test standards, practices & toolsets across all levels of testing including Unit, Component, System, and Acceptance Collaborate with delivery partners to build solutions on testing, automation to achieve CI/CD Identify and recommend opportunities to enhance productivity and operational efficiency using automation, virtualization, and integration with CI/CD pipeline Partner with DevOps and Platform engineers to fully automate testing throughout the release & delivery processes in the CI/CD pipeline The Automation Architect will meet with business and technology leads to understand objectives and map out testing automation requirements; Prepare documentation on selected tools and established processes to allow maintaining a set of highly reusable automated test scripts and virtual services to be used for integration and regression testing on the program levelThought Leadership (25%): Develop and champion the organizations automation strategy Champion automation efforts Help overcome cultural issues that inhibit automationMentoring (5%): The Automation Architect will act as the coach and mentor to team members and technical staff on their assigned project tasksREQUIREMENTS: Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Systems Analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience DevOps certifications will be a plus 15+ years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, middleware, database management or operations 10+ years of support including experience in engineering skills experience Experience with Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud Platform implementations Knowledge of all components of a Technical Architecture Knowledge of business process re-engineering Experience with test automation and test management tools Understanding of network, Infra architecture and application development methodologies Understanding of SOA, Microservices, Object-oriented analysis and design, DevOps and CI/CD, and GitLab Test automation experience in an Agile Development environment Knowledge of containers and virtualization Knowledge of mobile automation tools Knowledge of automated build management tools Experience in defining and implementing several test automation solutions leveraging one or more of the following: Selenium, Cucumber, Appium, SoapUI, Postman, Protractor, JMeter, LoadRunner, VisualStudio, Load Test, Grinder, Gatling Programming languages (Python, Go, Shell, Ruby, Powershell,, etc.) Experience in Infrastructure management and automation technologies such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Datical, Azure DevOps Experience in monitoring tools such as New Relic Experience in Nosql technologies like Postgres, Cassandra, CouchDB, MongoDB, HBase will be a plus Experience in Retail, Travel/ Hospitality, Financial or Healthcare industry will be a plusKforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.Vacancy expired!