Position: US - Staffing - IT Solutions Engineer / Test Lead
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Duration: Contract
Job ID: 174160
Job Overview: The GRS Quality Engineering (GRS-QE) organization is seeking a dynamic, hands-on Solutions Engineer to lead and deliver innovative quality-engineering solutions across a large application portfolio. This role focuses on Gen-AI-driven enterprise test automation, quality insights, performance engineering, data-validation frameworks, and tight collaboration with Site Reliability Engineering to build observability into every stage of the SDLC. The ideal candidate will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership to architect, implement, and scale modern testing platforms that enable teams worldwide to ship faster and safer.
Responsibilities: - Lead the end-to-end delivery of quality-engineering solutions that meet customer needs while aligning with technology guardrails and strategic roadmaps.
- Partner with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to embed observability metrics, logs, and traces into automated tests and quality gates, reducing MTTR and boosting incident readiness.
- Drive Gen-AI/LLM experimentation, including self-healing tests, autonomous test-case generation, and AI-assisted defect triage, transitioning validated prototypes into production platforms.
- Guide feature teams on modern quality practices such as Shift-Left, DevTestOps, contract testing, performance engineering, data validation, and program-level quality governance.
- Integrate and optimize vendor testing platforms/tools to maximize business value and ROI.
- Collaborate with product managers, architects, engineers, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into scalable quality solutions.
- Work with application teams to apply testing strategies, standards, and tools to agile delivery confidently.
- Facilitate global knowledge sharing, cross-team alignment, and continuous improvement across geographically dispersed squads.
- Participate in incident management, root-cause analysis, and post-mortems, providing consultative recommendations to prevent recurrence.
- Contribute to funding prioritization and roadmap planning to ensure efficient use of resources.
- Mentor and coach engineers, fostering technical growth and promoting agile best practices.
- Utilize design thinking, DevTestOps pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code to improve speed and quality.
- Stay abreast of emerging technologies in Gen-AI, cloud architecture, containerization, microservices, and observability, applying relevant innovations to ongoing work.
- Document architectures, quality standards, and strategies thoroughly for maintainability and knowledge transfer.
Qualifications: - Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
- 10+ years of hands-on software or quality engineering experience with demonstrated technical leadership.
- Proven expertise in building and integrating large-scale test automation frameworks within AWS environments.
- Hands-on skills with at least two of the following: Playwright, UIPath, RestAssured, Postman, Pact.
- Experience embedding automated tests into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar.
- Solid understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure-as-code.
- Familiarity with performance/load testing tools (k6, JMeter, LoadRunner) and observability platforms (DataDog).
- Exposure to Gen-AI/LLM-powered testing tools (Copilot, OpenAI) or custom prompt/embedding solutions.
- Strong communication, facilitation, consensus-building, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Proven ability to mentor and elevate team technical capabilities.
- Relevant certifications (AWS, testing tools, or observability) are a plus.
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Pay Range: $70 - $85/hour on W2
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