QA Architect

Company overview:

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

In today’s environment, where efficiency, automation, and cost optimization are essential to enterprise growth, we are uniquely positioned to deliver impact.

In 2023, Microsoft, the world’s 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 Leapwork’s 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, you’ll 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 don’t 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.