ABOUT TALON.ONE: Talon.One is the most powerful incentives engine that unifies loyalty, promotions and gamification into one holistic platform. Backed by enterprise-grade security and scalability, Talon.One empowers companies to build personalized, profitable promotions and loyalty programs using any data. Today, over 250 of the world’s most-loved brands including Adidas, Sephora and Carlsberg work with Talon.One to drive deeper engagement and lasting loyalty with their customers. ABOUT THE ROLE: As a QA Architect, you are responsible for how quality is built into our software across teams. Not as a final checkpoint, but as a core part of how we design, build, and ship. You set the direction for testing, automation, and risk management at a company level, helping teams move fast without compromising stability. You don’t manage people or own deliveries. Instead, you influence how engineering teams work by shaping developing systems, standards, and a shared understanding of quality. A key part of the role is making structural quality and testing debt visible and actionable, so leadership can make informed trade-offs between speed, reliability, and long-term health. You work closely with engineers, QA teammates, tech leads, and product leadership across squads. This is a hands-on, collaborative role for someone who enjoys shaping practices and systems, rather than running a team. ONCE YOU ARE HERE YOU WILL: Set a clear, pragmatic direction for quality and testing across teams Shift quality left by helping teams consider testing and risk during design and implementation Define how testing is balanced across unit, integration, API, and end-to-end levels Improve system testability and stay up to date with modern testing and automation approaches, applying them where they genuinely simplify testing and improve feedback Clarify what “safe to ship” means using automation, signals, and engineering judgment Make quality and testing debt visible and explain its impact in terms leadership understands Set standards for non-functional risks such as performance, reliability, security, and accessibility, in collaboration with teams Use data from tests, production issues, and incidents to identify patterns and address root causes Support engineers and QA teammates on making sound quality trade-offs Keep QA tools and setups maintainable, effective, and aligned with real needs Capture principles and decisions so teams don’t repeatedly solve the same problems Support hiring senior QA and quality-focused engineers WHAT WE NEED YOU TO BRING TO THE TABLE: Deep hands-on experience in QA or Quality Engineering, including test automation Proven experience improving quality across multiple teams or complex systems Strong understanding of modern CI/CD pipelines and automated testing strategies Comfortable in discussing risk, technical debt, and trade-offs with engineers and leadership A practical mindset focused on early feedback and long-term maintainability The ability to influence without formal authority or heavy process A genuine care for users, teammates, and product quality Confidence working with high autonomy and ambiguity ABOUT TECHNOLOGY: Kubernetes running on Google Cloud PostgreSQL We use Go for our API, core logic, and internal tooling TypeScript, React, Redux, and CSS modules for our web application Cypress for automated end-to-end testing Other odds & ends in JavaScript and shell script WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU: 90 team of engineers, product managers and product designers in Berlin Leaders with 8 years of experience building our promotions engine €1,000 annual learning budget, full LinkedIn Learning access, and free German language courses to boost your skills 30 days of annual leave, plus extra paid days for your birthday and moving day Home office setup budget, a monthly home office allowance Freedom to work from abroad for up to 90 days worldwide! Mental health support with nilo.health and a discounted Urban Sports Club membership 20% company subsidy on your pension contributions Subsidised BVG public transport ticket and a dog-friendly Berlin office where your furry friend is welcome Lease your ideal bike through BusinessBike