Techstra Solutions · 3 days ago
QA Architect – Legacy .NET Platforms
Pittsburgh, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
12+ years expTechstra Solutions is seeking an experienced QA Architect to define, lead, and continuously evolve the quality strategy for a mission-critical, legacy .NET application portfolio. This role blends strategic ownership, technical depth, and hands-on leadership, focusing on establishing risk-based testing architectures and guiding QA engineers.
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Responsibilities
Define and own the end-to-end quality and testing architecture for legacy .NET applications
Establish risk-based testing strategies aligned with business criticality, change frequency, and regulatory expectations
Determine the optimal balance of manual, automated, and exploratory testing in a legacy environment
Create and maintain a long-term roadmap for improving testability, automation coverage, and quality metrics
Balance modernization initiatives with the need to protect existing, business-critical behavior
Lead, mentor, and coach QA engineers, including mid-level testers and automation engineers
Set standards for test design, automation frameworks, data validation, and defect management
Review and guide test automation approaches using tools such as Selenium, Playwright, SpecFlow, NUnit/xUnit, or similar
Partner with development leaders to influence architecture and design decisions that improve testability
Provide hands-on support for complex or high-risk testing scenarios when required
Navigate, analyze, and document legacy application behavior, dependencies, and constraints
Identify and communicate high-risk areas resulting from technical debt, tight coupling, or undocumented logic
Define strategies for regression protection in areas with limited or no existing coverage
Support incremental modernization patterns (e.g., strangler pattern, service extraction) from a quality perspective
Advocate for quality improvements during refactoring and enhancement efforts
Act as the primary QA partner to product, engineering, operations, and release management
Translate technical testing risks into business-level impact for stakeholders
Support release readiness, go/no-go decisions, and production validation strategies
Align QA practices with SDLC, Agile, or hybrid delivery models
Qualification
Required
12+ years of experience in software quality engineering, including leadership responsibilities
Deep experience testing legacy .NET applications (e.g., WebForms, WinForms, WCF, early MVC)
Proven ability to design and scale test automation architectures in constrained or legacy environments
Strong SQL and data validation expertise (e.g., SQL Server)
Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines where feasible
Strong understanding of non-functional testing (stability, performance, data integrity)
Experience leading or influencing QA teams without relying solely on formal authority
Ability to coach teams on quality mindset, risk assessment, and test strategy
Strong communication skills with both technical teams and business stakeholders
Comfort making and defending quality trade-off decisions under delivery pressure
Experience documenting and institutionalizing knowledge in long-lived systems
Preferred
Experience in commercial banking or financial services environments
Familiarity with banking systems such as lending, deposits, payments, treasury, or core banking platforms
Experience working in regulated or audit-driven environments
Exposure to compliance, SOX, or control-based SDLC expectations
Company
Techstra Solutions
Techstra Solutions is a consulting firm for digital and talent transformation.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Larry Honig
Chief Digital Officer
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