The Quality Assurance Architect provides highly specialized
and advanced technical expertise and mentoring in the design/development of
product testing/quality processes and in developing testing architecture
Responsibilities
- Provides advanced technical expertise and mentoring to the quality assurance team and the broader organization. Champions quality assurance process improvements across the organization.
- Analyzes new and emerging trends in quality assurance architecture, evaluates alternatives, and completes feasibility studies.
- Provides advice to senior management on quality assurance advancements, and makes strategic methodology and development recommendations
- Designs and develops product testing/quality processes, ensures a team review of defects in assessing product quality, and facilitates the review of applications for testing needs and requirements/design quality.
- Maintains up-to-date knowledge of current information technology techniques and tools.
QA Tester vs. QA Engineer vs. QA Architect
A good explanation is available @ http://manishrathi.com/2009/09/11/qa-tester-vs-qa-engineer-vs-qa-architect/
simple and nice explanation. To add more on responsibilities:
ReplyDeleteThe role touches almost every aspect of ALM , i.e from requirements to requirements. Horizontally, the Quality Architect is responsible for coordination and collaboration across cross-functional teams (from marketing to design & development to QA to operations & customer care) Vertically, the person is responsible to boost team's productivity and at the same time explain quality metric data to executives in layman terms.