Lead Specialist, Technical Architect

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Pearson VUE

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1994

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Pearson VUE is a global leader in computer-based testing, providing a wide range of credentialing and certification exams for various industries. They support test-takers and test owners by offering resources, scheduling options, and accommodations to ensure equitable access to testing. Their mission is to empower candidates and enrich communities through the delivery of high-stakes exams that validate professional skills and knowledge, contributing to career advancement and industry standards.

📋 Description

• Set strategic direction for the ExamDeveloper quality system across process, automation, tooling, training, metrics, quality gates, and release confidence • Partner with the Product Architect and Engineering leadership on long-term automation and quality strategy • Evaluate QA processes, tools, technology, data, and people practices and drive improvements • Establish quality metrics covering automation health, test reliability, defect leakage, cycle time, release readiness, and QA investment effectiveness • Serve as the domain subject-matter expert on quality, automation approaches, and critical test scenarios • Drive robust test coverage across application areas • Lead complex root-cause analysis, intermittent-defect investigation, and reliability work • Mentor and coach senior quality engineers and build quality capability across teams • Support automated test suite and quality-practice development • Evaluate emerging tools and AI-assisted testing practices • Provide technical oversight of QA practices and test artifacts • Represent quality in leadership discussions and with internal or external stakeholders • Influence architecture, platform, delivery, and investment decisions • Improve reliability, reduce defect leakage, strengthen release confidence, and identify systemic quality risks early

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience • 8+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation experience • 3+ years operating as a domain-level quality expert or SME across complex, distributed platforms • Demonstrated influence on quality practices, automation frameworks, or standards adopted across multiple teams • Deep experience with test automation strategy, tooling, and quality improvement • Experience in large product environments with multiple Agile teams, distributed QA teams, and high volumes of testing and release-readiness decisions • Recognized expertise in automation architecture, quality strategy, reliability, and test tooling • Proficiency with scripting and object-oriented programming languages • Experience with Gauge, Selenium/WebDriver, C#, VM-based test execution, or cloud testing infrastructure is relevant • Strong grounding in Agile delivery, cloud-native environments (Azure/Kubernetes), and CI/CD quality gates • Experience with SQL, telemetry, dashboards, observability, and production quality signals • Familiarity with LLMs/ML and AI-assisted QA tooling is preferred • Experience supporting accessibility compliance and WCAG standards is preferred • Excellent communication and ability to influence senior stakeholders without formal authority • Strong written communication skills for clear asynchronous communication across distributed teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual incentive program eligibility • Benefits offered by Pearson (specific benefits linked in the posting) • Remote work within the United States