Enterprise Quality Architect: Strategy, Automation & CI/CD

Spilberg; Utrecht; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Spilberg is seeking a Quality Lead / Quality Architect to shape the quality engineering strategy across a large organisation. You will define architecture, governance and standards, and drive measurable improvements in software quality.

Working across Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product and Security, you will translate a quality vision into practical, reusable solutions and governance that enable teams to ship high-quality software at scale.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Architecture, or QA/Engineering leadership.
• Proven ability to define quality strategies, governance and roadmaps in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong technical foundation in test automation, CI/CD and modern testing practices.
• Knowledge of performance engineering, observability, reliability, API testing and contract testing.
• Ability to translate strategic decisions into practical approaches for engineering teams.
• Strong stakeholder management and coaching skills to drive organizational change.

Responsibilities

• Develop an enterprise Quality Engineering strategy and improvement roadmap.
• Define test architecture, quality standards and quality gates.
• Strengthen test automation and embed quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide direction on API, contract and integration testing.
• Embed performance, scalability and reliability considerations early in design and development.
• Improve quality reporting, traceability and visibility of risks.
• Coach teams and align architects, engineering leads and management.
• Explore opportunities to apply AI and GenAI within Quality Engineering.

Skills

Quality engineering

Test architecture

QA leadership

CI/CD

Performance engineering

Stakeholder management

Tools

JMeter

Grafana

LoadRunner

OpenTelemetry

PactFlow

KONG

Azure Test Plans

Job description

Spilberg is seeking a Quality Lead / Quality Architect to shape the quality engineering strategy across a large organisation. You will define architecture, governance and standards, and drive measurable improvements in software quality.

Working across Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Product and Security, you will translate a quality vision into practical, reusable solutions and governance that enable teams to ship high-quality software at scale.