QA Architect

Company overview:

At Leapwork our vision is to break down the barriers between humans and computers through the worlds most accessible automation platform. We are the leading global AI-powered visual test automation solution enabling some of the worlds largest enterprises to adopt scale and maintain automation in under 30 days.

In todays environment where efficiency automation and cost optimization are essential to enterprise growth we are uniquely positioned to deliver impact.

In 2023 Microsoft the worlds largest and most recognizable software company recognized Leapwork as a truly innovative and disruptive product leading to a strategic partnership that continues to be a major growth catalyst.

The Role:

As a QA Architect you will work in a fast-paced team-oriented environment using Agile methodologies. You are a highly experienced quality engineering leader with deep expertise in performance scalability and architectural quality practices. You understand what it takes to build quality into products early not just validate it at the end.

You are great at seeing the bigger technical picture across products and platforms identifying risks before they become issues and defining robust test strategies that ensure our solutions scale reliably in enterprise environments. You will play a key role in shaping performance engineering practices across Leapworks portfolio including Rush AI Studio and future platform capabilities.

Role Responsibilities:

• Responsible for defining and driving the overall quality architecture strategy across products with a strong focus on performance scalability and reliability.
• Lead the design and implementation of performance engineering practices standards and frameworks across the organization.
• Define performance baselines SLAs scalability thresholds and quality gates for key product areas and platform capabilities.
• Partner with Engineering Product DevOps and Architecture teams early in the development lifecycle to ensure systems are designed for performance resilience and scale.
• Own the strategy for performance load stress endurance and concurrency testing across products and services.
• Evaluate and introduce the right tools frameworks and environments for performance and scalability validation.
• Drive architectural reviews from a quality and non-functional testing perspective identifying risks related to concurrency infrastructure bottlenecks service dependencies and AI workload scaling.
• Establish robust metrics dashboards and reporting mechanisms to monitor and assess non-functional quality across releases.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to QA engineers and teams in performance engineering automation strategy and quality best practices.
• Collaborate across teams to strengthen testability observability and continuous quality practices within CI/CD pipelines.
• Drive initiatives to shift quality engineering left enabling earlier detection of scalability and performance risks.
• Support release readiness by ensuring products are validated not only for functionality but also for enterprise-scale usage and operational reliability.

Technical Qualifications / Role Requirements (Must - Have Skills)

• Minimum of 10 years of work experience in Software Testing / Quality Engineering with significant experience in test architecture performance engineering or scalability validation.
• Strong experience in defining and implementing test strategies at an architectural level across complex products or platforms.
• Extensive hands-on experience with performance and load testing tools such as JMeter Gatling LoadRunner k6 or similar modern frameworks.
• Strong understanding of performance testing methodologies including load stress spike endurance and concurrency testing.
• Experience defining performance benchmarks SLAs KPIs and scalability thresholds for enterprise-grade applications.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems APIs databases messaging systems and cloud-native architectures from a quality and performance perspective.
• Experience with Web applications APIs services and platform-level testing including non-functional validation.
• Ability to identify and assess performance bottlenecks across application database infrastructure and network layers.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices observability tools and integrating non-functional testing into release workflows.
• Hands-on knowledge of Agile & DevOps processes source control databases and at least one programming or scripting language.
• Excellent leadership communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to influence engineering decisions and drive cross-functional alignment on quality architecture and performance strategy.
• Experience working in a fast-paced global environment.
• Having knowledge of tools such as Jira Jenkins TeamCity Azure Grafana Dynatrace AppInsights or similar monitoring and pipeline tools is a plus.
• Experience with AI-enabled platforms compute-intensive workflows or highly concurrent enterprise systems is a plus.
  

Why Leapwork

We are on an exciting journey of global growth and this is your chance to get onboard and contribute to digital transformation initiatives in a forward-thinking company working with and learning from a talented and passionate team committed to innovation and excellence.

By joining our team youll become part of a fast-paced international environment where you can grow challenge yourself and do what inspires you. We work hard but have fun while doing it and we believe that collaboration social activities and celebration are keys to success.

Leapwork Principles:

Our five key principles capture the essence of what it means to be a part of our world-class team! They are integral to how we approach our work and one another and they serve as a roadmap to our continued growth development achievements and success.

People First: Strong relationships with our customers partners and team are the foundation of our success. We win by listening understanding and offering empathy and respect to everyone we engage with. We are human and humane.

Grow or Die: Standing still is not an option. We dont just adapt to change we drive it and are determined to push things forward. We challenge ourselves and others to keep learning sharing ideas and find new ways to grow the business.

Speed Matters: We act with intent and urgency - cutting complexity seizing opportunities and delivering results fast.