Quality Engineering Architect

Position Overview

Autodesk is seeking an experienced Quality Architect to join our AEC (Architecture, Engineering, and Construction) division. Our distributed team is dedicated to solving large-scale challenges in the construction industry. As a Quality Architect, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality software, addressing performance and resiliency challenges in our modern SaaS platform, and driving improvements across Autodesk Construction Cloud (ACC) products with higher quality standards. Great opportunity for someone passionate about quality assurance, with a knack for automation, and those who enjoy working in a collaborative environment. In this role, you will report to the Director, Quality Architecture.

Autodesk Construction Cloud is an enterprise SaaS application, used by the leading construction and engineering firms across the world to organize and deliver on large-scale projects. ACC connects teams and project data from design to done—reducing risk, protecting profits, and increasing predictability. To grow and deliver value to our customers, we need a focus on resilience, quality, scale, and enterprise controls.

Preference for candidates in the Bay Area, CA or West Coast, United States.

Responsibilities 

• Develop and implement a comprehensive quality and test automation strategy for all ACC products

• Collaborate with engineering teams to assess and address performance, scalability, and resiliency challenges

• Ensure consistent product delivery and drive continuous quality improvements across teams

• Work closely with senior engineering leaders to shape AEC Constructions' overall software quality approach and process improvements

• Review and gain a deep understanding of how our teams manage quality and test validation across various products and platforms, and as they evolve

• Create and standardize a test automation strategy for mobile, web, and backend services

• Own the quality program, defining and executing standardized process metrics to measure team performance on quality

• Act as an expert and advocate for increased test automation using the latest industry tools and standards

• Partner with the Quality Engineering team to address platform and tooling needs, prioritizing initiatives that enhance engineering efficiency and improve release confidence

• Collaborate with engineering teams to monitor and optimize system performance, resiliency, and scalability

• Stay current with industry best practices and emerging technologies to continuously enhance QA processes

• Standardize tooling and evaluate testing tools (commercial, open-source, or proprietary) that can be leveraged across projects

• Work closely with software engineers, product designers, and quality assurance engineers across global teams

• Communicate effectively and responsibly within an Agile environment

• Excellent problem solver, and team player

Minimum Qualifications 

• Experience in technically leading and influencing teams of SDETs (Software Development Engineer in Test) or SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) for a SaaS product or platform

• Proven track record of delivering high-quality software built with microservices and distributed systems

• Deep understanding of quality aspects in distributed systems, focusing on resiliency and performance optimization

• Proficiency in test automation across various levels, including unit, component, contract/API, regression, performance/load, system/integration, and smoke/end-to-end testing

• Strong programming skills in Node.js, Python, or a similar programming language

• Experience with AWS services, including EKS, EC2, and Lambda, or similar public cloud platforms

• Solid understanding of web services and serverless functions

• Experience with CI/CD tools and processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)

• Familiarity with test automation frameworks and tools, such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar

• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

• Knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases, with an understanding of scaling challenges related to database schema and query designs

• Ability to work effectively in a cross-time zone environment

• Excellent problem-solving skills with strong attention to detail

• Strong communication and collaboration abilities

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, team-oriented environment

• Passion for improving product quality

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, such as Terraform or AWS CloudFormation

• Familiarity with additional programming languages (e.g., JavaScript, .Net) is a plus

• Experience in service monitoring and alerting

• Experience with mobile test automation on iOS or Android, with a good understanding of tools like Appium, Kotlin, or similar technologies

The Ideal Candidate

• Very advanced expert roles that provide advice relevant to their subject matter expertise to senior leaders

• Jobs at this level reflect sophisticated subject matter expertise and consultative capabilities

• Development of novel, highly innovative solutions is often required

• Recognized as experts within a discipline, and also apply working knowledge of the theories and concepts in other related disciplines

• Lead the resolution of complex problems within own discipline, often with the need to integrate cross-functional processes and outcomes

• Anticipate business challenges that could have significant impact on Autodesk's operational and financial success, and proactively develop solutions to address them

• Provide input to functional strategies related to own discipline

• Influence leaders within own function to adopt solutions, establish priorities, and allocate resources

• May lead teams or projects with broad visibility