**Introduction** A career in IBM Consulting is rooted by long-term relationships and close collaboration with clients across the globe. You'll work with visionaries across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Your ability to accelerate impact and make meaningful change for your clients is enabled by our strategic partner ecosystem and our robust technology platforms across the IBM portfolio. **Your role and responsibilities** Designs and implements test solutions for enterprise-level applications, integrating test automation technologies to maximize test coverage and efficiency. This role collaborates with business analysts, product owners, solution architects, and project managers to tailor test solutions to specific project needs. The architect specializes in various testing approaches, tools, and methodologies, including model-based testing, BDD, TDD, test optimization, environment management, test data management, virtualization, cloud, and AI-driven test automation. They provide technical leadership for all test activities, from test requirements to test design and execution, and assist Test Managers with overall test planning. The role focuses on enhancing test quality, productivity, and cycle time improvements through technology-driven test automation, with a strong emphasis on high ROI. The Application Architect with Quality Engineering skills is responsible for designing and implementing test solutions that integrate with Agile and DevOps-based development approaches, ensuring high levels of automation and seamless collaboration with development teams. They also contribute to performance optimization and tuning of the application infrastructure, ensuring optimal system performance and availability. **Required technical and professional expertise** Tooling and Technology Decisions * Evaluate, recommend, and implement appropriate testing tools, frameworks. Mentorship and Guidance * Mentor QA team members, establish best practices, code reviews, and foster a culture of quality engineering. Quality Metrics and Reporting * Define and track KPIs like test coverage, defect leakage, automation ROI, and provide insights to stakeholders. Innovation and Continuous Improvement * Stay updated with industry trends, drive PoCs, and adopt emerging technologies like GenAI IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.