Test Automation Architect
Werfen
Summary
Senior, hands-on technical role accountable for test automation architecture, frameworks, infrastructure, and engineering standards across Beacon, HCP, EBF, firmware, component, and other software-intensive programs. Establish scalable automation spanning component, firmware, API, integration, system, UI, and end-to-end testing. Design reusable test infrastructure for physical systems, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments. Collaborate with Software, Firmware, Systems, QE, DevOps, Cybersecurity, and Architecture teams to promote testability by design and continuous testing. Expected to architect, code, prototype, troubleshoot, review designs/code, and technically mentor engineers.
Job description
Key Responsibilities
- Own the test automation architecture, strategy, standards, and technical roadmap.
- Build reusable automation frameworks with Python and suitable supporting technologies.
- Develop automation architecture for firmware, components, EBF, subsystems, APIs, integrated systems, and end-to-end workflows.
- Create reusable test libraries, harnesses, simulators, mocks, utilities, and test infrastructure.
- Design automation environments using AWS, VMs, Docker, containers, and physical/virtual test environments.
- Incorporate automation into CI/CD and DevOps pipelines.
- Establish automated processes for environment provisioning, configuration, deployment, test execution, result collection, and diagnostics.
- Support parallel and scalable test execution across virtualized/containerized environments.
- Set engineering standards for Git, code reviews, configuration management, logging, diagnostics, traceability, and maintainability.
- Advance testability by design, including APIs, automation interfaces, observability, logging, simulation, and fault isolation.
- Investigate complex failures across software, firmware, infrastructure, networking, and system integration boundaries.
- Minimize flaky tests, environment dependencies, execution time, and automation technical debt.
- Lead architecture and code reviews while providing hands-on technical mentoring to automation engineers.
- Promote reuse of common automation capabilities across programs instead of independent product-specific frameworks.
Core Technologies / Experience
- Python, including framework/library development
- C/C++ and/or C# working knowledge
- Firmware and embedded-system testing
- Component/subsystem automation
- EBF / engineering build and test frameworks
- AWS / cloud-hosted test infrastructure
- Virtual Machines / virtualization
- Docker and containerization
- Linux and Windows environments
- CI/CD / DevOps
- Jenkins/Gitlab/Bitbucket/AWS/Azure DevOps or equivalent pipeline technologies
- Git
- REST/API automation
- Hardware/software integration
- Test harnesses, simulators and mocks
- Test-data and environment management
- Logging, diagnostics, observability and automated reporting
- Networking fundamentals relevant to distributed/integrated test environments
- SQL/data validation where applicable
Expectations
- Strong software engineering and architecture mindset, rather than script-based test automation.
- Must be hands-on and capable of designing and coding automation frameworks.
- Experience designing automation that scales across multiple products, environments, and teams.
- Ability to operate across firmware → component → application → system → cloud test layers.
- Strong debugging and root-cause-analysis capabilities across complex integrated environments.
- Ability to modernize legacy automation while maintaining ongoing product verification.
- Demonstrated ability to create reliable, reusable and maintainable automation infrastructure.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 8 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
- Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science.
- Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages.
- Ability to administer software engineering tools; configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
- Ability to operate instrumentation.
- Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.
- Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, etc.) found in product development.
Skills & Capabilities
- Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages
- Ability to administer software engineering tools; configuration management, requirements management, and defect management
- Ability to operate instrumentation
- Possesses strong written and oral communications skills
- Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers
Travel Requirements: <5% of time
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree plus a minimum of 10 years of related experience or Master's Degree plus a minimum of 8 years of related experience or waiver based on experience.
- Degree should be in a technical discipline such as Chemistry, Math, Physics, Engineering, or Computer Science.
- Proficiency with a personal computer and software packages.
- Ability to administer software engineering tools; configuration management, requirements management, and defect management.
- Ability to operate instrumentation.
- Possesses strong written and oral communications skills.
- Ability to work in a team environment of software developers and testers.
- Proficient in code languages (Assembly, C, C++, Java, C#, etc.) found in product development.
- Python, including framework/library development
- C/C++ and/or C# working knowledge
- Firmware and embedded-system testing
- Component/subsystem automation
- EBF / engineering build and test frameworks
- AWS / cloud-hosted test infrastructure
- Virtual Machines / virtualization
- Docker and containerization
- Linux and Windows environments
- CI/CD / DevOps
- Jenkins/Gitlab/Bitbucket/AWS/Azure DevOps or equivalent pipeline technologies
- Git
- REST/API automation
- Hardware/software integration
- Test harnesses, simulators and mocks
- Test-data and environment management
- Logging, diagnostics, observability and automated reporting
- Networking fundamentals relevant to distributed/integrated test environments
- SQL/data validation where applicable
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision
- 401(k) Matching
- Paid Vacation
- Sick Leave
- Performance-Based Bonus
Company overview
Werfen is a global leader in specialized diagnostics, founded in 1966 in Barcelona, Spain as a family-owned innovative company. The organization has established itself as a worldwide authority in five key clinical areas: Hemostasis, Acute Care Diagnostics, Transfusion, Autoimmunity, and Transplant diagnostics. With headquarters in Barcelona and technology centers strategically located in the United States and Europe, Werfen operates directly in 30 countries and serves more than 100 territories through distributors. The company achieved remarkable financial performance with worldwide sales exceeding €2.2 billion in 2024, supported by a workforce of over 7,000 employees globally. Werfen's comprehensive portfolio includes advanced diagnostic systems, reagents, laboratory automation solutions, and point-of-care testing platforms that enable healthcare providers to deliver precise and timely patient care. Their innovative technologies span from blood gas analyzers with hemolysis detection capabilities to automated immunoassay systems and specialized diagnostic assays. As a vertically integrated diagnostics company, Werfen maintains complete control over research, development, manufacturing, and distribution, ensuring quality and reliability across their product lines while continuously advancing diagnostic science to address critical healthcare challenges worldwide.