Application Test Architect, Application Consultant

As a trusted advisor, you'll forge strong relationships with our customers, gaining deep insights into their business objectives and long-term aspirations. Armed with this understanding, you'll provide expert guidance on how technology can be leveraged to propel them towards unprecedented success. From aligning processes to technology to developing and deploying bespoke solutions, you'll be the visionary architect behind their digital transformation journey. Your expertise in application development and deployment best practices will ensure seamless integration and optimized performance.

In this role, your impact will be immense. You'll conduct thorough needs assessments, uncovering the requirements for new applications or upgrades to existing ones, and document these specifications with utmost precision using cutting-edge Business Analysis (BA) methodologies. Whether it's crafting comprehensive use cases, tracing requirements meticulously, or visualizing process flows, your attention to detail will be unmatched.

Drawing upon your exceptional analytical prowess, you'll gather requirements from stakeholders and masterfully translate them into functional and nonfunctional specifications. As the driving force behind our customers' application modernization endeavors, you'll guide them through every step of the process, ensuring their systems are future-proofed and optimized for success. Your expertise will also come into play as you assist customers in selecting and customizing the perfect packaged solutions to fulfill their unique business needs.

Collaboration will be your cornerstone as you work closely with application architects and development staff to bring your visions to life. Your keen eye for detail will shine as you analyze requirements, meticulously plan design and implementation work, all while adhering to time, cost, and quality targets. You'll consult with customers on compatibility challenges, such as hardware and operating system considerations, data conversion processes, and training requirements, offering them holistic solutions that align seamlessly with their budgets.

In this fast-paced environment, you'll have the exhilarating responsibility of helping customers choose between multiple applications, including packaged solutions. Your sharp insights and discerning judgement will empower them to make informed decisions that drive their organizations towards unprecedented heights.

Our consultants are restless for innovation. They are at the edge of technology, changing the way our customers implement business solutions - so, if you're a problem-solver, an innovative thinker, and a self-starter with a passion high impact assignments which align technology to business outcomes, then we want to hear from you! Apply today to join our dynamic team that has a host of exciting projects and customers waiting for you to work with them to solve complex transformation puzzles through technology.

Your Future at Kyndryl
As an Application Test Architect, Application Consultant at Kyndryl you will join the Kyndryl Consultant Profession, working with other Kyndryl Consultants, Architects, Project Managers, and cross-functional Technical Subject Matter Experts - presenting unlimited opportunities with unmatched support through our investment in your learning, training, and career growth.

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Who You Are

As a Test Architect you will lead and design robust testing strategies for our clients, ensuring high-quality delivery across complex systems. In this role, you will define test architectures, implement automation frameworks, helping clients ensure the success of their application development, ERP, and Mainframe Transformation projects through functional, non-functional and specialized testing capabilities.

You will work with diverse clients, advising on scalable testing solutions, automation strategies, and quality governance to enhance their software development lifecycle. You should have a strong technical background, expertise in test automation, and experience aligning testing with business and technical objectives.

Testing Practice Goals

The consulting organization that you are support will be focused on helping both clients and your colleagues establish testing programs. Consulting services include everything from leading workshops and consulting engagements where we assess testing maturity and opportunities to helping clients build a strategy, testing centers of excellence, and around testing to implementation full scale testing programs. Areas the testing team will get involved include:

• Understand business problems and goals and help organizations understand their testing requirements both organizationally and on a specific program.
• Assess the adequacy and maturity of testing programs and organizations.
• Assess the opportunity for automated testing and improved testing practices.
• Define and deliver testing plans for functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing.
• Ensure the configuration management of tests.
• Ensure the auditability and transparent reporting of tests that have been run.
• Implement and configure common testing tools to create a testing platform.
• Creating a charter and organization for a client's testing organization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Service Offering Development: You will discover patterns of client problems and then collaborate across partners, Kyndryl service offerings, and other consulting teams to create hardened capabilities that teams
• Understanding Client Problems and Seeing Innovative Solutions: Leads in Kyndryl's consulting organization know how to listen to clients facing real challenges ensuring that the changes they deliver to production will meet the needs of their stakeholders. Take what they have learned and propose innovative solutions that Kyndryl can help deliver. Whether that's a new testing strategy and testing team structure, a new set of automated testing tools, a test plan for a specific program or project, or the automation of existing test cases.

• Test Strategy & Architecture
  • Design and implement scalable test architectures that align with business and technical requirements.
  • Define end-to-end testing strategies, covering functional, performance, security, and integration testing.
  • Establish and enforce best practices for shift-left testing, test automation, and CI/CD integration.

• Automation & Tooling
  • Develop and implement test automation frameworks (UI, API, performance, and security testing).
  • Select and integrate best-in-class testing tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, JUnit, TestNG, Appium, Postman, JMeter, Gatling).
  • Drive adoption of AI-driven and low-code/no-code test automation where applicable.

• Quality Governance & Best Practices
  • Define and implement quality assurance processes and metrics to measure testing effectiveness.
  • Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements for software quality.
  • Provide guidance on test data management, environment setup, and test orchestration.
  • Mentor and train teams on test automation, performance engineering, and quality engineering principles.

Required Experience & Skills

• 7+ years of experience in software testing, with at least 3+ years in a test architect role.
• Expertise in test automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Playwright, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of API testing (Postman, REST Assured, Karate) and performance testing (JMeter, Gatling).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test automation in DevOps environments (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

The compensation range for the position in the U.S. is $134,160 to $254,880 based on a full-time schedule.

Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job-related skills and experience. For part time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement.

There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations:

California:$147,600 to $305,880

Colorado: $134,160 to $254,880

New York City: $161,040 to $305,880

Washington: $147,600 to $280,320

Washington DC:$147,600 to $280,320

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl's discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl's applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off. Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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