Our Company
Changing the world through digital experiences is what Adobe’s all about. We give everyone—from emerging artists to global brands—everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences! We’re passionate about empowering people to create beautiful and powerful images, videos, and apps, and transform how companies interact with customers across every screen.
We’re on a mission to hire the very best and are committed to creating exceptional employee experiences where everyone is respected and has access to equal opportunity. We realize that new ideas can come from everywhere in the organization, and we know the next big idea could be yours!
We are seeking a visionary QE Architect to define and drive the quality engineering strategy, frameworks, and tool-ecosystem across our product portfolio. You will act as the subject-matter expert (SME) in quality architecture, set standards for automation, CI/CD integration, and continuous testing, and ensure high quality and scalability of our software delivery. You’ll collaborate with engineering, DevOps, product and business stakeholders to embed quality early and continuously Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Quality Strategy & Architecture
- Define and build a scalable, maintainable, enterprise-level test automation and quality framework (web, mobile, API, microservices).
- Architect quality approaches across multiple domains/teams and lead cross-product or cross-domain quality initiatives.
- Promote continuous testing (shift-left, shift-right), integrate quality gates, metrics, dashboards into CI/CD pipelines.
- Participate in product design and architecture reviews to ensure testability, reliability, and maintainability.
Technology & Tooling Ownership
- Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, or JavaScript.
- Select, evaluate and implement best-in-class automation tools, frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Appium), performance & security test tools.
- Build and maintain CI/CD integration for automated test execution, environment provisioning, test data, mocks/stubs.
- Drive innovations in quality -forwards-looking frameworks, AI/self-healing automation, predictive analytics.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QE engineers and automation teams.
- Act as a liaison between QE, product, development, DevOps and business teams — align on quality objectives, escalate issues, champion quality culture.
- Define and enforce standardization: test strategy templates, framework code standards, quality metrics (automation coverage, defect escape, release readiness).
Quality Assurance & Metrics
- Own and track quality metrics: defect density, automated coverage, release cycles, stability, production incidents.
- Lead root-cause analysis of production defects, drive process improvements, refine test strategy accordingly.
- Ensure functional, regression, performance, security, and resilience testing are embedded and executed at appropriate phases.
Preferred/Desirable Attributes
- Experience driving or implementing agentic or AI-enabled quality engineering / self-healing test frameworks.
- Experience in enterprise-scale transformation programs or product-platform migration efforts.
- Open-source contributions or internal tooling for test automation architecture.
- Certification(s) such as ISTQB Advanced Test Manager / Automation Engineer, Cloud Certification (AWS/Azure), DevOps/Agile.
- Lead experimental initiatives to test and adopt novel QE practices across Adobe products.
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What We Do
When you join Adobe Life in Austin, you’ll immerse yourself into a world of cutting-edge technology, exceptional colleagues and meaningful work that touches millions of people everywhere.
Adobe is the global leader in digital media and digital marketing solutions. Our creative, marketing and document solutions empower everyone – from emerging artists to global brands – to bring digital creations to life and deliver immersive, compelling experiences to the right person at the right moment for the best results. In short, Adobe is everywhere, and we’re changing the world through digital experiences.
Why Work With Us
Adobe Austin embodies the culture of the Austin neighborhood around it which is diverse, enterprising and innovative.
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