Overview
Quality Assurance Specialist Jobs in Greater Dublin at SearchWorks
Title: Quality Assurance Specialist
Company: SearchWorks
Location: Greater Dublin
The Role: Quality Architect
Our client is modernising a large-scale transaction processing platform from a legacy monolithic architecture into a cloud-native, event-driven platform built on microservices and AWS.
The platform processes high-volume, business-critical transactions across multiple domains and engineering teams. We are looking for a senior engineering-quality leader to define and drive platform-wide quality strategy across distributed systems operating at production scale.
This is not a traditional QA management role.
We are looking for someone with strong technical depth in distributed systems, event-driven architectures, non-functional testing, and platform modernisation.
*12 Month Contract – Up to €700 a day
What You’ll Do
- Own platform-level quality strategy across multiple engineering teams
- Define validation approaches for distributed systems and event-driven workflows
- Lead end-to-end validation across microservices and asynchronous processing pipelines
- Define approaches for resilience, failover, scalability, and production-scale performance testing
- Drive migration and parity validation between legacy and modern platforms
- Build shared tooling, quality frameworks, synthetic data strategies, and reusable validation capabilities
- Embed quality controls into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native delivery workflows
- Identify integration risks and failure scenarios across domain boundaries
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve observability, tracing, and production quality indicators
- Provide clear quality readiness evidence for major releases and platform migrations
What We’re Looking For
- Experience validating distributed systems or event-driven architectures at scale
- Strong understanding of Kafka, asynchronous processing, or event-stream based systems
- Experience with non-functional testing including performance, resilience, scalability, failover, or high-volume validation
- Background in platform modernisation, migration, or legacy replacement programmes
- Experience validating end-to-end transaction integrity or data parity across systems
- Strong understanding of APIs, microservices, and integration patterns
- Experience working within cloud-native environments (AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD)
- Ability to influence multiple engineering teams without direct authority
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with focus on platform behaviour and operational reliability
