Software QA architect

Soleras Advanced Coatings BV; Belgique; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dynamic environment

Competitive salary

Training program

Team events

Accessible location

Extra vacation days

Job summary

Soleras Advanced Coatings seeks a QA Architect to elevate quality across the Synaps platform. You will shape test strategies, drive automation for frontend, backend, and infra, and validate releases with developers, DevOps, product owners, and support engineers.

You will define practical quality gates, validate REST APIs, distributed services, and database integrations, and mentor teams to embed robust testing into daily development workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience designing or implementing automated testing solutions.
• Willingness to travel internationally to visit customer sites and production environments.
• Focus on testability, reliability, and regression risk in a distributed platform.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategies translating feedback into test scenarios for unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Design and maintain automated tests for C#/.NET services, Angular apps, REST APIs, microservices, and DB integrations.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to detect regressions early and ensure maintainability.
• Mentor developers and QA engineers on testing practices, diagnostics, observability, and regression prevention.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD testing

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Angular

C#/.NET

REST APIs

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Travel internationally

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Kubernetes

Docker

PostgreSQL

TimescaleDB

Job description

Soleras is a global market leader in thin film technology. We develop innovative solutions for thin film coatings – from components and consumables (targets) to machines (coaters) and the associated software. Our solutions are used in energy-efficient glass, displays, solar panels, thin film batteries, and web coatings. With production sites and teams in the US, Europe, and Asia, we have an international reach. Our high-quality technologies and ISO certifications make us a reliable partner in the thin film industry.

Join us and help raise the bar for thin film coating.

What to expect of the job?

We are looking for a 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 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 we offer?

• 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.