Lead Principal QA Architect

About us

At Aptitude we love complexity.

We immerse ourselves in the intricacies of finance digitization, subscription management, compliance, and revenue management which gives us the power to make a real impact. Once we understand how an organization works, we can implement software solutions that provide the clarity, confidence, and control they need to drive growth and achieve their ambitions.

Aptitude has served the offices of finance for over 20 years, delivering financial control and insights to empower our clients to achieve their strategies and ambitions. We are currently serving over 75 CFOs whose organisations generate a combined revenue of over $1 Trillion.

We are proud of our growing team of smart, motivated and passionate people, and believe diverse experiences and perspectives build stronger teams and better solutions.

Headquartered in London, we have seven office locations around the world with clients across four continents.

What you'll do and what we offer

Your responsibilities will include:

• Owning QA Strategy of Product Portfolio in alignment with the company’s overall objectives
• Provide strategic guidance to senior management on quality-related issues and opportunities for improvement
• Acting as a Mentor and Guru in the Testing domain and share your knowledge within and outside the testing community
• Researching solutions (tools, platforms, frameworks, etc.) to improve test efficiency, such as automation solutions for functional, regression, and performance testing
• Researching solutions to improve system stability, including online system capacity testing, monitoring system construction, CI/CD pipeline, Chaos engineering
• Identifying quality risks and efficiency bottlenecks, formulate reasonable improvement goals and solutions and facilitate implementation
• Leading the design, implementation, and delivery of test solutions using new or existing technologies that test major portions of software (e.g., significant component, set of features, applications or services) for large-scale, critical, and/or highly complex software
• Establish proper metrics and regulary report on them, contribute to company OKRs
• Provide guidance and oversight to a team of dedicated professionals, ensuring their continued growth and development
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, customer success, to ensure seamless integration of quality assurance processes

We’ll provide you with the opportunity to grow your expertise in an environment that supports you, your life and your career.

We’ll also offer you a competitive salary plus profit-related bonus scheme, as well as the following benefits:

• Private healthcare
• Life and disability insurance
• ShareSave scheme – ability to purchase company shares on preferential terms
• English language lessons during working hours
• Flexible working conditions and hybrid work model for Wroclaw based and telework for other cities

What we're looking for

The ideal candidate will have the following skills & experience:

• Quality Assurance & Testing background
• Minimum 5 years of experience in test automation and test process management
• Extensive knowledge of Java, GIT
• Familiar with the following tools: Junit5, Rest Assured, Test Containers, Jest, Playwright, Pact, Mockito, WireMock
• Working knowledge of Continuous Integration best practices, in particular declarative Jenkins pipelines, build Artifact repositories
• Working knowledge of Containers and Kubernetes
• Working knowledge of AWS or Azure
• Advanced verbal and written communication skills in English (professional proficiency)
• Excellent team player

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How to apply

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Diversity and Inclusion

If you’re interested in working at Aptitude, but don’t feel you meet every single requirement of the role, we’d still like to hear from you!  A diverse workforce is an essential part of our culture, and we’re dedicated to ensuring that our staff can show up as their authentic self – safe in the knowledge that their differences will be embraced and respected by all. We’re strong advocates of supporting applicants from a wide variety of backgrounds which include different ages, genders, ethnicities, physical abilities and sexual orientation, and we work hard to build the confidence of our workforce through inclusivity, equity and ongoing training. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the candidate we’ve been looking for, whether it’s for this role or another.