Software Quality Architect (f/m/d)

Leica Geosystems AG; Heerbrugg; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Vacation 25–30 days

Bonus system + pension

Development opportunities

Relocation support

Employee discounts

International environment

Job summary

Hexagon Geosystems, a global leader in measurement and geospatial technology, seeks a Software Quality Architect to define and drive the quality strategy across teams. You will build the practice from the ground up and shape automation, testing, and governance for a 60+ repository codebase.

Based in Heerbrugg with international collaboration, you will implement CI/CD integration, API contract testing, performance and security testing, and open-source compliance to ensure robust, scalable

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with testing methodologies and automation frameworks.
• Proven track record building or maturing a quality function.
• Experience with API contract testing and governance across teams.
• Strong English communication and stakeholder management across locations.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive testing and quality strategy across teams.
• Design test plans, automation concepts, and regression strategy for 60+ repos.
• Introduce API governance and contract testing between teams.
• Introduce and manage modern testing, automation, and quality-enablement tools.
• Perform performance and security testing to identify risks and ensure compliance.

Skills

Testing methodologies

Automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Quality engineering practices

API contract testing

Governance across teams

Performance testing

Security testing

Open-source compliance

Regression strategy

Git tooling

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Git

Test automation tooling

Job description

Hexagon’s Infrastructure & Geospatial Business Area combines measurement, positioning, and mapping technologies to help geodata-dependent industries capture, measure, and visualise the physical world – turning data into actionable insights for better decisions and greater efficiency.

Software Quality Architect(f/m/d)

Heerbrugg 80-100%

We offer you

• Flexible annual working hours based on a 40-hour week
• 25–30 days of vacation, depending on age
• Bonus system and extra-mandatory pension fund contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Relocation support
• Employee discounts and various company events
• International working environment with collaboration across teams and countries

Here you can find more information about us as an employer.

Hexagon’s Infrastructure & Geospatial Business Area combines measurement, positioning, and mapping technologies to help geodata-dependent industries capture, measure, and visualise the physical world – turning data into actionable insights for better decisions and greater efficiency.

This appeals to you

• Defining and driving the testing and quality strategy across teams — building the practice from the ground up, since no dedicated testing function exists today.
• Designing test plans, automation concepts, and a regression strategy that integrate into CI/CD pipelines, for a codebase spanning 60+ interdependent repositories.
• Introducing API governance and contract testing between teams, creating traceability across fragmented tools, and aligning with teams outside your own to define the quality metrics that don’t yet exist.
• Introducing and managing modern testing, automation, and quality-enablement tools, building custom solutions where needed — including the test/load infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet.
• Performing performance and security testing to identify risks early and ensure compliance, including open-source compliance.

This is you

• Strong expertise in testing methodologies, automation frameworks, CI/CD integration, and quality engineering practices.
• Experience standing up or significantly maturing a quality function, ideally from scratch — comfortable with ambiguity.
• Experience with API contract testing and governance across teams that don’t report to each other.
• Experienced in performance and security testing, open-source compliance, and regression strategy for complex, multi-repo or microservice systems.
• Solid software engineering foundation (Clean Code, test automation, Git, tooling), analytical and structured, with excellent English communication and a track record of driving a quality mindset across roles and locations.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align teams around common quality standards, processes, and priorities without direct authority.

We offer you

• Flexible annual working hours based on a 40-hour week
• 25–30 days of vacation, depending on age
• Bonus system and extra-mandatory pension fund contributions
• Opportunities for personal and professional development
• Relocation support
• Employee discounts and various company events
• International working environment with collaboration across teams and countries

Here you can find more information about us as an employer.

About Us

At Hexagon, we are the global leader in measurement technologies. Our precision measurement, positioning, and autonomous solutions transform the world’s most vital industries – providing the confidence that customers rely on to build, navigate, and innovate.

From microns to Mars, we drive productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability where it matters most. We help industries operate smarter, reduce risk, and reach new levels of efficiency.

Looking ahead, we are advancing our customers towards a future of true autonomy – enabling them to meet sustainability and demographic challenges with confidence.

With approximately 16,000 employees across 50 countries, Hexagon combines global scale, expertise, and innovation to make a lasting impact across some of the world’s most vital industries.