1. Functional Test Automation Enablement & Impediment Resolution
- Act as a senior technical enablement resource to triage, analyze, and resolve functional test automation issues, blockers, and impediments impacting LOB teams.
- Partner closely with LOB Single Points of Contact (SPOCs) to:
o Diagnose complex or systemic automation challenges
o Recommend compliant patterns, configurations, or approaches aligned with enterprise standards
o Drive resolution across tooling, pipelines, test frameworks, and execution models
- Identify recurring impediments and feed actionable insights back into enablement materials, standards, and platform improvements.
2. Level 3 (L3) Support via Office Hours & Escalation Channels
- Serve as Level 3 technical support for Functional Test Automation during established Office Hours and enterprise chat channels.
- Handle escalations that exceed L1/L2 support capabilities, including:
o Complex framework behavior
o CI/CD integration issues
o Test execution failures with non obvious root causes
- Ensure timely, high quality responses that unblock teams and reduce downstream delivery risk.
3. Support for Niche, Edge Case, and Non Standard Applications
- Provide targeted enablement and escalation support for:
o Applications outside mainstream or opinionated usage of enterprise test automation tools
o Legacy platforms, atypical architectures, or constrained environments
- Work with product teams and engineering stakeholders to:
o Document viable patterns for non standard use cases
o Identify when exceptions or enhancements are required
o Escalate gaps that require platform or tooling changes
4. Development & Publication of Test Development Standards
- Create, curate, and publish enterprise functional test development standards, including but not limited to:
o Test repository and GitHub structure conventions
o CI/CD pipeline configuration patterns for test execution
o Test tagging, execution strategies, and results management
o Environment aware configuration and data handling practices
o Practically applicable across diverse LOB contexts
o Accessible, reusable, and adoption oriented
o Maintained and iterated based on real world usage and escalations
5. Knowledge Assets & Enablement Content
- Produce and maintain enablement artifacts such as:
o Reference implementations
o Troubleshooting guides for common and advanced issues
o Decision guides for framework, pipeline, and execution choices
- Partner with platform and product owners to ensure published guidance aligns with supported tooling and roadmap direction.
Out of Scope
- Direct feature development within application delivery teams
- Acting as embedded sprint capacity or side programming resource
- Ownership of application specific test delivery or execution