Software QA Architect

What to expect of the job? We are looking for a software QA Architect to help us continuously improve the quality, reliability, and scalability of the Synaps platform. You will define test strategies, improve automation, and validate releases together with software developers, DevOps engineers, product owners, and support engineers. The role covers frontend, backend, infrastructure, CI/CD, and industrial system integrations. What you will do *Quality Architecture & Testing Strategy:
* You will translate customer feedback, support insights, in-field observations, and production learnings into test scenarios for unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
- Introduce risk-based testing practices that focus effort where it matters most.
- Base test scenarios on recurring customer feedback, support insights, and lessons learned from real installations.
- Help define practical quality gates for releases without slowing down delivery unnecessarily. *Test Automation
* You will design and maintain automated tests for C#/.
NET services, Angular applications, REST APIs, microservices, and database integrations.
- Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so regressions are detected early.
- Promote maintainable test automation that developers can understand, trust, and extend. *Backend & Platform Validation
* You will validate business logic, backend workflows, REST APIs, distributed services, SQL databases, Kubernetes-hosted applications, and industrial machine integrations.
- Help safeguard data integrity, performance, and system reliability.
- Translate technical risks into clear validation scenarios. *Mentoring & Continuous Improvement
* You will help developers and quality engineers apply testing, diagnostics, observability, and regression-prevention practices in daily development work.
- Coach developers to prevent regressions in their own code.
- Encourage practical testing habits that fit naturally into development work. Who are we looking for? *Experience
* We are looking for software development experience in frontend, backend, or full-stack environments, with a focus on automated testing and platform quality.
- Experience designing or implementing automated testing solutions.
- Willingness to explore and broaden the testing framework over time.
- Willingness to travel 20% internationally to visit customer sites, gather in-field feedback, and build hands-on experience with real production environments. *Technical Skills
* Frontend and backend experience are equally valuable; the key requirement is understanding how application architecture affects testability, reliability, maintainability, and regression risk. Below an overview of the expected skills, a perfect match is not required, notion of is. Backend Skills
- Focus on validating platform logic, service behavior, APIs, data consistency, and reliability across distributed backend components.
- Experience with Angular, C#, .
NET, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Python and service-oriented architectures.
- Ability to validate usability, correctness, performance, data consistency, and integration behavior. Frontend Skills
- Focus on validating user-facing workflows, UI behavior, automated regression coverage, and the interaction between the frontend and underlying APIs.
- Experience with frontend testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium is valuable.
- Ability to define valuable UI, API, integration, and backend automation coverage. Devops Skills
- Focus on integrating automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, containerized deployments, and cloud-native environments where tests run reliably before release.
- Experience with Azure DevOps or GitHub and CI/CD pipelines.
- Understanding of Kubernetes and containerized applications. Why Soleras? First and foremost, we are machine builders, sharing a passion for technology in a high-tech and dynamic environment, but above all, sharing the core belief that everyone of us – from R&D and operations to finance and marketing – contributes to making ‘the difference’. Thanks to a great order book and technology driven products in a fast paced industry, we are the reference in large area optical coatings. Products made with our equipment are part of your life on daily bases. You’ll find our coatings in the windows at your home, our coatings on and in your smartphone and perhaps even in the solar panels on your roof, etc. On top of that, Soleras is a young software department with a strong vision and the latest software packages such as Postgres, Timescale DB, Docker, Kubernetes... What do

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- A dynamic and international work environment where innovation and collaboration are key.
- A competitive salary with an attractive package of additional benefits.
- An extensive training program and personal guidance through a mentorship program.
- Enjoy fun extras such as after-work drinks and sports, summer barbecue, Christmas drinks, and so much more.
- Thanks to our location near the highway, our company is easily accessible.
- On top of the 20 standard vacation days, you receive an additional 12 compensation days per year.