Location: Lowell, MA—Need to come to the Office 3 days in a week
Job Type: Contract
ESE Major Transformation Project.
Role summary
The QA Architect & Integrated Test Owner is the single-threaded accountable owner for integrated testing across a major ESE transformation to enhance the quote-to-revenue journey. This senior, hands-on role defines the test strategy and architecture, coordinates SIT and UAT across geographies and business teams, and gives leadership an evidence-based view of readiness, quality, and risk.
The role covers an end-to-end commercial and financial journey across AI-enabled CRM and CPQ, order management, billing and usage platforms, provisioning, finance ERP, revenue recognition, integration services, professional services automation, and data platforms. It includes legacy-to-target migration validation and analytics reporting through the enterprise data warehouse (EDW) and Nexus.
The integrated test owner is accountable for the overall test outcome and readiness recommendation. Functional and system leads remain accountable for the completeness, execution, evidence, and sign-off of testing in their domains.
Key responsibilities
• Own integrated test strategy and planning
o Define SIT and UAT scope, milestones, scenario coverage, entry and exit criteria, and the integrated execution plan.
o Maintain distinct SIT and UAT workstreams, evidence, and readiness criteria.
o Map scenarios to systems, business owners, test data, dependencies, and regional variants.
• Lead cross-system and cross-geography execution
o Coordinate distributed QA, business, product, engineering, and finance participants across regions and time zones.
o Plan scenario sequencing and handoffs, including asynchronous integrations and downstream validations.
o Confirm environment, access, test data, and integration readiness; surface dependencies and ownership gaps early.
o Drive end-to-end validation from customer and quote creation through order, fulfillment, billing, finance, revenue recognition, and reporting.
• Set quality engineering and automation architecture
o Establish reusable UI, API, integration, and data-testing patterns for priority business journeys.
o Lead hands-on automation design and implementation using Playwright or an equivalent framework, with CI/CD execution and actionable results.
o Prioritize automation by business risk, stability, and reuse; make manual validation and business judgment explicit where needed.
o Validate source-to-target migration, data completeness, reconciliation, and downstream report accuracy across operational systems, the EDW, and Nexus.
o Partner with domain QA teams to enable adoption, review coverage, and address flaky or duplicated tests.
• Evaluate AI-enabled behavior
o Define test approaches for AI-agent decisions, grounding, guardrails, permissions, and human oversight.
o Build measurable evaluations against approved business rules and expected outcomes, combining automated evaluation with human review.
o Ensure AI-related findings are traceable to scenarios, evidence, risks, and accountable owners.
• Manage defects, evidence, and readiness
o Lead defect triage, severity and impact assessment, ownership, retesting, and escalation.
o Set expectations for complete, traceable execution evidence and consistent scenario outcomes.
o Consolidate domain readiness, unresolved defects, dependencies, and residual risks into an integrated recommendation.
o Keep domain-specific sign-off authority clear while providing a program-level view for release decisions.
• Run metric-based reporting
o Use Jira dashboards and the agreed test repository as the reporting source of truth.
o Report execution and pass/fail rates, blocked and not-run scope, defect severity and aging, defect flow and burn-down, retest status, automation coverage, data readiness, and risks by system, scenario, and geography.
o Deliver concise written and verbal updates for working teams and executives, with clear owners, decisions, risks, and next actions.
Required qualifications
• Senior-level experience leading quality engineering or test architecture for complex, cross-system enterprise transformations.
• Strong practical automation background with Playwright or comparable tools, plus experience with UI, API, integration, and data testing and CI/CD.
• Experience planning and leading both SIT and UAT, including sequential end-to-end scenarios, distributed teams, business participation, defect triage, and release readiness.
• Experience across enterprise CRM/CPQ, finance ERP, billing, usage, integration, and revenue-recognition workflows.
• Experience with data migration validation, source-to-target reconciliation, data warehouses, and analytics reporting.
• Ability to build reliable test data and environment strategies and validate downstream financial and operational outcomes.
• Strong Jira skills, including JQL, dashboards, and translating execution data into clear leadership signals.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to communicate risks and decisions plainly to technical and business audiences.
• Ability to coordinate across domains while maintaining clear ownership, evidence, and sign-off.
Preferred qualifications
• Experience with Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365), RevPro, Informatica, and Metronome in integrated quote-to-revenue environments.
• Experience with EDW and Google Nexus, or comparable data migration and analytics platforms.
• Experience with AI-enabled business agents, including evaluation of grounding, guardrails, and human oversight.
• Experience with quote-to-revenue, order-to-cash, fulfillment, billing, renewals, amendments, or revenue recognition.
• Experience establishing a test source of truth and integrating it with Jira or CI/CD results.
Measures of success
• A baselined integrated test strategy, scenario inventory, ownership map, milestones, and SIT/UAT exit criteria.
• Cross-system and regional coverage is visible, with dependencies, test data, and environment readiness managed before execution.
• Migration and analytics validation provides traceable evidence of data completeness, reconciliation, and report accuracy.
• Priority automation runs reliably and produces results teams can use to act.
• Jira reporting gives leadership a timely view of execution, defects, automation, data quality, risks, and readiness.
• Domain sign-offs and unresolved risks are explicit, and the integrated readiness recommendation is supported by current evidence.
Regards,
Chandu. A
Mail: Chandu.A@Amistadlabs.com
Gmail: AforAkkineni@gmail.com
Phone: +1 780-628-0860
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