Test Architect (Quality Engineering)

Job Req Number: 106063
Time Type: Full Time

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Why join us

Join DSVs Global IT building next-generation Enterprise Products across Supply Chain Data and Platform work in crossfunctional platform & product teams with a flat hierarchy and collaborative culture. Principles: We learn fast design for scale build pragmatically and treat quality as a team sport.

The impact youll have

You will define and evolve the platform-wide testing vision and architecture embedding quality early and ensuring pipelines deliver reliable actionable measurable improvements in release confidence defect escape rate and delivery speed.

What youll do

• Platform-wide test architecture & automation strategy
• Own and evolve the platform-wide test architecture to ensure scalability maintainability and seamless CI/CD integration.
• Define and communicate the testing vision and roadmap including overall automation strategy and architecture.
• Select and govern automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright TypeScript Rest Assured) promoting reusable components and patterns across teams.
• Establish platform-wide standards and guidelines for test policies templates test data management environment configuration and observability metrics (e.g. flakiness coverage duration).
• Ensure alignment with platform architecture security and compliance requirements in all testing practices.
• Oversee cross-team testing strategies for end-to-end integration and performance testing.
• Balance manual and automated approaches ensuring manual efforts contribute to future automation.
• Support release governance by defining quality gates readiness criteria and sign-off processes in partnership with Release and DevOps teams.

• Shift-left & enablement
• Champion shift-left principles embedding testing early in the development lifecycle.
• Act as a technical advisor on automation design contract testing and quality engineering.
• Facilitate knowledge sharing and training on testing tools frameworks and best practices.

• Strategic governance
• Define platformwide policies templates and guidelines; balance manual vs. automated approaches (manual fuels future automation).
• Oversee crossteam strategies for endtoend integration and performance testing.
• Support release governance: quality gates readiness criteria and test signoff in partnership with Release/DevOps.

• Collaboration & continuous improvement

• Partner with Platform Owners Product Owners Architects QA Engineers and the Test CoE to harmonize standards.
• Provide functional leadership and mentorship to QA Engineers across 3 product teams.
• Define and monitor platform-level quality metrics (defect density automation health coverage) and drive improvements.
• Lead root cause analysis for quality issues and promote a problem-solving mindset.

• CI/CD integration & quality signals
• Integrate automated tests into Jenkins; enforce gates parallelization and health monitoring with rolebased governance.
• Build automated dashboards (Jira/Xray/TestRail Confluence) for transparent reporting to stakeholders.

Tech stack & practices

• Automation: Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) for UI & API; Postman/REST Assured; contract testing (Pact).
• Performance: k6/JMeter (as applicable).
• CI/CD: Azure Devops Jenkins; containers/Docker.
• ALM/reporting: Jira Xray TestRail Confluence.
• Governance: RBAC approvals compliance/security monitoring in pipelines.

What you bring

• 8 years in software testing/quality; 5 years architecting automation at scale.
• Proven experience as a Test Architect or similar senior QA role with extensive knowledge of software testing lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
• Deep handson experience with Playwright TypeScript; strong API/contract testing; CI/CD integration.
• Architecture mindset: standards patterns test data/env strategy observability.
• Collaborative nonhierarchical leadership; clear businessaware communication.
• Nicetohave: supply chain/TMS or financial domain; performance testing; cloud (Azure/AWS).

What we offer:

• Permanent contract
• Private medical care
• English courses - financial or co-financed by company
• Food allowance
• Work schedule 35h/week
• Hybrid work
• Comprehensive onboarding program
• Buddy
• Good access to public transports

DSV Global transport and logistics

Working at DSV means playing in a different league.

As a global leader in transport and logistics we have been on an extraordinary journey of growth. Lets grow together as we continue to innovate digitalise and build on our achievements.

With close to 160000 colleagues in over 90 countries we work every day to offer solid services and meet our customers needs and help them achieve their goals. We know that the best way to achieve this is by bringing in new talent fresh perspectives and ambitious individuals like you.

At DSV performance is in our DNA. We dont just work we aim to shape the future of logistics. This ambition fuels a dynamic environment built on collaboration with world-class team players accountability and action. We value inclusivity embrace different cultures and respect the dignity and rights of every individual. If you want to make an impact be trusted by customers and grow your career in a forward-thinking company this is the place to be.

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