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NetSuite · 1 week ago

Principal Test Platform Architect & Quality Consultant

Redwood City, CA, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$137K/yr - $338K/yr

10+ years exp

NetSuite is a leader in cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Principal Test Platform Architect & Quality Consultant to modernize and scale their enterprise testing approach. The role involves leading assessments, rationalizing tooling, and designing scalable test platforms while ensuring compliance and security across on-prem and cloud environments.

Cloud ComputingComputerCRMiOSSaaSSoftware

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead an enterprise assessment; define a target-state architecture and roadmap

Rationalize tooling and eliminate redundant testing across teams

Leverage AI/ML to accelerate test design, selection, triage, and environment stability while maintaining strict security, privacy, and compliance guardrails across on-prem and cloud

Build a scalable test platform and integrate security/compliance controls into CI/CD

Standardize performance and stress testing practices aligned to SLOs

Establish KPIs, dashboards, and governance; enable teams through playbooks and consulting

Enterprise discovery and assessment

Map current test practices, tools, environments, and data flows across teams and products (on-prem and cloud)

Quantify redundancy, flakiness, coverage gaps, runtime hotspots, and security/compliance gaps

Align on requirements with QA, Dev, Program Management, Security, and Compliance

Tooling and process rationalization

Create a consolidation plan for overlapping tools and duplicated test suites; recommend standard frameworks and patterns per test layer

Define exit criteria and migration paths; minimize disruption while improving signal quality

Strategy and Roadmap

Define an AI/Ml roadmap for quality engineering working with teams; prioritize use cases, data sources, required guardrails and ROI

Target-state architecture

Design a scalable test platform supporting functional, stress testing: parallelization, ephemeral environments, environment orchestration, and self-service test data services

Quality and security by design

Integrate quality gates, SAST/DAST/IAST into CI/CD for both on-prem and cloud deployments

Establish compliant test data strategies (masking, synthetic generation, retention, residency)

Governance, metrics, and enablement

Stand up dashboards and evidence trails for audit readiness

Create playbooks, golden paths, and training to enable large testing teams; provide hands-on consulting and reviews

Change leadership

Build a cross-functional working group; sequence pilots and incremental rollouts

Communicate outcomes and ROI to leadership; guide teams through adoption

Qualification

Quality EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureCI/CDFunctional TestingStress TestingPerformance TestingSecurity ComplianceObservabilityStakeholder ManagementChange EnablementAI/ML Knowledge

Required

10–15+ years in quality engineering or software architecture, with 5+ years consulting or leading large enterprise testing transformations

Demonstrated success rationalizing tools and eliminating redundant testing across multiple large teams

Deep expertise in functional, stress testing at scale, including methodologies, workload modeling, and environment design

Strong CI/CD experience across on-prem and major clouds

Solid knowledge of security and compliance controls integrated into pipelines (SAST/DAST/IAST, secrets hygiene, SBOM/signing, license compliance)

Proficiency with observability (metrics/logs/traces), service virtualization, and test data management

Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, and change enablement across matrixed orgs

Preferred

Experience with microservices, event-driven systems, and data/streaming performance testing

Experience and or knowledge of AI tools available for testing enterprise scale software

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion

Short term disability and long term disability

Life insurance and AD&D

Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)

Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts

Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits

401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match

Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.

11 paid holidays

Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Financial planning and group legal

Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance