QA Architect

Summary

Andersen, an international IT company, is looking for a QA Architect to join its team for large-scale projects across various industries.

Andersen is a pre-IPO software development company that provides a full cycle of services, following project management standards and best practices. For over 18 years, we have been helping enterprises and middle-sized firms transform their businesses by creating effective digital solutions using innovative technologies.

Immerse yourself in a global landscape as we collaborate with enterprises spanning North America, Western Europe, Israel, Australia, and the UAE. Our diverse expertise extends across FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, Media & Entertainment, Logistics, Travel & Hospitality, eCommerce, and more.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing and specifying quality requirements for software products and related IT services.
• Planning tasks, tools, resources, and skills; estimating quality assurance process costs.
• Optimizing QA-related costs and managing quality requirements through the cost–quality–risk balance; technically and economically justifying quality expectations.
• Defining and implementing quality assurance methodologies throughout the entire software lifecycle.
• Developing and implementing test automation processes, including selecting tools and frameworks.
• Developing and applying non-functional testing practices – ensuring reliability, scalability, availability, fault tolerance, performance, and recoverability.
• Defining and implementing requirements to ensure testability of software products and services.
• Specifying quality gate requirements for CI/CD processes; selecting and evolving CI/CD-integrated QA tools and frameworks.
• Leading QA engineers, mentoring and training team members, and developing competence matrices and growth paths.
• Ensuring alignment of business requirements with testing processes by collaborating with architects and developers.
• Analyzing and optimizing testing processes to improve product efficiency and quality.
• Researching and implementing tools and technologies to improve QA engineer efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Creating and maintaining templates for QA artifacts and documentation.

Requirements

• Experience as a QA Architect, Lead QA, or Senior QA for 5+ years.
• Deep and broad understanding of the trade-offs between various quality aspects and the effort required to ensure them across different types of software products and IT services.
• Ability to articulate the relationship and risks between “business need” and “ensured/missing quality requirement,” and to provide clear, consultant-level recommendations to management.
• Hands-on, current experience in optimizing QA-related costs and improving development and maintenance processes through quality initiatives – at the organizational, methodological, skillset, and tooling levels.
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies (ISTQB, TMap, etc.) and quality management principles.
• Proficiency with test automation tools (Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Postman, etc.).
• Experience writing test documentation: test plans, test cases, and scenarios.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum and Waterfall methodologies; experience in cross-functional teams.
• Understanding of REST API, microservice architecture, and integration processes.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to identify critical quality issues and propose optimal solutions.
• Participation in digital transformation projects for large enterprise companies.
• Experience with test management tools (JIRA, TestRail, Zephyr).
• Experience working with high-load systems.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their integration into the QA process.
• Experience implementing QA engineer efficiency tools, including those based on generative AI capabilities.
• Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate+ and above.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!