Senior Architect,QA

Job Title : Senior Architect, QA

Location Bangalore

Aptean is changing. Our bespoke ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 4500 employees, 90 different products and a global client base, there's no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

The Who, What, Where and Why

As a Test Architect, you will play a key role in driving quality throughout the software development lifecycle, and ensuring our software products are high-performing, scalable, and meet customer expectations.

This role is multifaceted, designed for individuals that have an exceptional blend of technical expertise, strategic thinking abilities, and strong leadership skills, and are eager to contribute their skills to enhance rapid delivery of enterprise supply chain solutions. You will partner strategically with developers, software architects, and other technical leaders to ensure that test approaches fully align with development approaches for effective and efficient delivery.

Who?

We'd like this person to have the following skills/abilities:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in software testing and quality assurance with a focus on test automation and architecture
• Thorough understanding of the entire software development process and how testing fits into it
• Understanding of architectural patterns (e.g., Microservices, Monolith), design principles (e.g., SOLID), and their implications for testability
• Expertise in designing scalable, maintainable, and extensible test automation frameworks using tools like Selenium, JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber, and others
• Expert knowledge of C#/.NET and Python programming languages, and related technologies
• Strong knowledge and experience with performance testing tools and methodologies (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner, K6)
• Knowledge and experience with security principles, testing methodologies, and best practices
• Strong understanding of database concepts and experience with SQL Server or other relevant databases
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and how to design and test applications deployed in these environments
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Proficient in testing APIs using tools and libraries relevant to both C# (e.g., RestSharp, HttpClient) and Python (e.g., Requests, Postman).
• Ability to define comprehensive test strategies, create test plans, and estimate testing efforts for complex projects
• Excellent leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to present complex information to various stakeholders
• Familiarity with AI test tools a plus

What?

In this role, you would:

• Enable rapid and consistent test execution through comprehensive test coverage that aligns with strategic direction, project requirements, and industry best practices
• Design test strategies that integrate functional, performance, and security testing into a cohesive and comprehensive strategy for complex applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, assist in defining testing criteria, and ensure alignment between business objectives, testing strategy, and technical best practices
• Build automation frameworks that support testing efforts across multiple platforms such as APIs, web, and mobile, and align with product roadmaps for scale and complexity
• Partner with DevOps to establish, maintain, and ensure testing environments are properly configured and include resources needed to support robust and scalable test execution across all areas
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines for efficient execution; monitor and optimize the performance of these pipelines to prevent bottlenecks and ensure deployments are quick and secure
• Research and evaluate new testing tools, technologies, and practices to further enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness across all functional, performance, and security testing
• Design solutions for creating and managing test data as an asset, enabling efficient, reliable, and comprehensive testing

What's in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to

grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding

opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow's unique challenges today with unrivaled,

purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care.

Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions.

Aptean' s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the

unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other

focused organizations. Aptean' s compliance solutions are built for companies serving

specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000

highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on

Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

"At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through

embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual

power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company." –

TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are

central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers,

build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can

succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity,

religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs

allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing

innovative solutions to our customer base.