Senior Test Architect

Poppulo

Senior Test Architect leading the design and evolution of quality engineering and test automation. Contributing to Poppulo’s SaaS Employee Experience platform for efficient communication and workplace technology.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timeRemote • 🇮🇪 IrelandSenior💰 €75,000 - €115,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCypressDistributed SystemsDockerJavaJMeterKafkaKubernetesMicroservicesPythonSeleniumTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and drive the overall test architecture and automation strategy across multiple teams and services.
Design, build, and evolve scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and modern testing libraries.
Establish best practices for automated testing across all layers (unit, integration, API, UI, performance, and end-to-end).
Collaborate with engineering teams to embed testing into the development lifecycle, ensuring high test coverage and fast feedback cycles.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing and reliable deployments.
Partner with Architects and Engineering Leads to ensure test strategies align with system architecture, including microservices and monolithic applications.
Define and implement strategies for testing distributed systems, including event-driven and asynchronous architectures.
Leverage AWS services and cloud-native patterns to support scalable and efficient test execution.
Drive improvements in test reliability, execution time, and maintainability.
Establish observability and reporting standards for test results, quality metrics and release readiness.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers and QE professionals on automation best practices.
Evaluate and introduce new tools, frameworks, and approaches to improve quality engineering capabilities.
Ensure testing approaches align with security, compliance, and data protection requirements (e.g., GDPR, PII handling).
Identify quality risks, gaps, and areas of technical debt, and drive remediation strategies.
Promote a culture of quality ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence across teams.

Requirements

What you’ll need

10+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or test automation, with significant experience in an architectural or leadership role.
Strong programming skills in Java, TypeScript, Python or similar languages used for building automation frameworks.
Deep experience with modern test automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Robot Framework or similar.
Strong understanding of performance testing with tools such as locust, k6, Jmeter.
Proven experience designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks across multiple teams or products.
Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated testing into build and deployment workflows.
Hands-on experience testing distributed systems, including microservices and monolithic architectures.
Experience working with AWS and cloud-native environments.
Strong knowledge of API testing, UI testing, performance testing, and test data management strategies.
Experience with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) is highly desirable.
Familiarity with event-driven systems and messaging platforms (Kafka, SNS/SQS, etc.) is a plus.
Strong understanding of observability practices (metrics, logging, tracing) as they relate to testing and quality.
Experience with security and compliance considerations in testing (GDPR, PII, etc.).
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across teams.
Passion for automation, quality engineering, and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
Accident and life insurance
Access to the best in class learning and development platforms
Flexible work arrangement
Variable compensation

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaTypeScriptPythonPlaywrightSeleniumCypressRobot FrameworkAPI TestingUI TestingPerformance Testing

Soft Skills

Excellent CommunicationStakeholder ManagementMentorship