Quality Assurance Architect - Technology (Automation Testing)

Verra Mobility is a global leader in smart mobility. We develop technology-enabled solutions that help the world move safely and easily. We are fostering the development of safe cities, working with police departments and municipalities to install over 4,000 red-light, speed, and school bus stop arm safety cameras across North America. We are also creating smart roadways, serving the world's largest commercial fleets and rental car companies to manage tolling transactions and violations for over 8.5 million vehicles. The company lives by its core values—Do What’s Right, Choose Courage Over Comfort, Win Together, and Own It—in everything it does for its customers and team members. The company seeks to grow, both organically and through acquisition, to continue to be the undisputed market leader with a bias for action, customer focus, teamwork, drive for results, and commitment to excellence.

The QA Architect owns the vision, strategy, and hands on execution of quality engineering across the Platform, Credential, and Violations portfolios, reporting to the Senior Enterprise Architect. This is an individual contributor role with no direct reports: influence comes from technical credibility and direct partnership rather than organizational authority.

You will personally build automation frameworks, write and review test code, and work directly inside a squad when a team needs help, including training engineers, pairing on hard problems, and doing the work directly when that is what moves a team forward fastest.

Quality Strategy & Standards

Own the QA Vision: Define and own the enterprise QA vision and long term automation strategy across Platform, Credential, and Violations, informed by the shift left principle.

Establish the testing pyramid and automation approach, spanning unit, integration, contract, end to end, performance, and non functional testing, as a consistent standard while allowing for legitimate portfolio differences.

Extend the quality tooling roadmap to test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations, not only synchronous request and response calls.

Personally build and maintain core automation frameworks and shared test libraries, and write and review test code, automation scripts, and test plans directly alongside squad engineers.

Unblock Teams Directly: Step in directly when a team lacks the automation skill or capacity to implement the strategy, pairing with engineers, running training sessions, or writing the initial test suite to get a squad unstuck.

Guide Non Functional Testing: Perform and guide non functional testing, including load, stress, performance, and basic security testing informed by OWASP principles, for services where the risk profile warrants it.

Partner Without Authority: Work directly with QA Leads and Tech Leads across Platform, Credential, and Violations to implement the QA strategy in each specific context, leading through technical standards, coaching, and hands on partnership rather than direct reporting lines.

Identify and resolve cross portfolio testing dependencies, for example ensuring Credential and Violations squads can reliably test the integration points between eligibility, provisioning, and citation workflows.

Represent QA in Architecture: Represent QA in the Architecture CoE, flagging where automation or quality standards need to evolve, and track quality metrics such as defect escape rate, automation coverage, test execution time, and change failure rate.

We’re looking for a hands on quality engineering leader with a proven track record of building automation strategy and capability from the ground up. Data Quality Fluency

Working knowledge of test data management and data quality validation practices for shared or regulated datasets.

Migration Testing

Experience setting technical direction across multiple teams without direct command and control authority, leading primarily through credibility and hands on partnership.

Strong written and verbal communication that translates quality strategy for engineers and portfolio or enterprise leadership alike.

Experience: 8+ years in QA, quality engineering, or software engineering, including 4+ years focused specifically on test automation strategy and architecture. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience required.

candidates must be comfortable writing production quality automation code today, including stepping directly into a squad’s codebase and shipping tests.

Testing Expertise: Senior level knowledge of testing processes, principles, and techniques at an ISTQB or equivalent depth, along with strong proficiency in QA automation and scripting using current tooling, with Python, pytest, and Playwright strongly preferred over older frameworks.

Excellent command of automation best practices, including clean coding and the Test Automation Pyramid, along with the judgment to know when to deviate from them.

Asynchronous & Data Testing: Experience designing test and validation strategies for asynchronous, event driven, and message based integrations, along with working knowledge of test data management and data quality validation practices for shared or regulated datasets.

ISTQB or ASTQB certification, or a more advanced credential, is preferred, along with experience establishing a QA or automation function from an earlier or less mature state. Experience in mobility, transportation, tolling, parking, or other high volume transaction processing industries is a plus, as is familiarity with compliance relevant testing considerations such as PCI DSS and data privacy.

Migration & Vendor Evaluation (Preferred): Experience designing regression and cutover test strategies for live system migrations is also a plus, as is experience evaluating third party test automation or quality tooling vendors, including basic build versus buy judgment.

Own It: We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.

We focus on high performance and drive toward breakthrough outcomes. Our employees ensure accountability, optimize and align work, focus on the customer, and cultivate innovation.

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