Application Architect-Quality Engineering

IBM
IBM

IT, Quality Assurance

California, USA · Texas City, TX, USA

Posted on Jun 26, 2026
Introduction

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As an Application Architect with Quality Engineering expertise, you design and implement test solutions for enterprise-level applications, integrating test automation technologies to maximize test coverage and efficiency. You collaborate with business analysts, product owners, solution architects, and project managers to tailor test solutions to specific project needs. Your primary responsibilities will include: • Design Test Solutions: Design and implement test solutions that integrate with Agile and DevOps-based development approaches, ensuring high levels of automation and seamless collaboration with development teams. • Provide Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership for all test activities, from test requirements to test design and execution, and assist Test Managers with overall test planning. • Optimize Test Automation: Enhance test quality, productivity, and cycle time improvements through technology-driven test automation, with a strong emphasis on high ROI. • Collaborate with Stakeholders: Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, solution architects, and project managers to tailor test solutions to specific project needs. • Ensure System Performance: Contribute to performance optimization and tuning of the application infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and availability.

Required education
Bachelor's Degree
Preferred education
Master's Degree
Required technical and professional expertise

• Test Automation Expertise: Experience with test automation technologies, including model-based testing, BDD, TDD, test optimization, environment management, test data management, virtualization, cloud, and AI-driven test automation. • Technical Leadership: Experience in providing technical leadership for test activities, including test requirements, test design, and execution, with the ability to assist Test Managers with overall test planning. • Agile and DevOps Integration: Experience with designing and implementing test solutions that integrate with Agile and DevOps-based development approaches, ensuring high levels of automation and seamless collaboration with development teams. • Test Optimization: Experience in enhancing test quality, productivity, and cycle time improvements through technology-driven test automation, with a strong emphasis on high ROI. • Performance Optimization: Experience in contributing to performance optimization and tuning of the application infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and availability.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Cloud Computing Knowledge: Experience with cloud-based test automation technologies, including virtualization and environment management, to maximize test coverage and efficiency. • AI-Driven Test Automation: Experience with AI-driven test automation tools and methodologies, including model-based testing, to enhance test quality and productivity. • Performance Tuning Expertise: Experience in performance optimization and tuning of the application infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and availability in Agile and DevOps-based development approaches.

Years of Experience:
8 - 10

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