Test Coach & Quality Expert - Contract / Part time / Agile / Scrum

Our client, a leading enterprise organisation, is looking for a Test Coach & Quality Expert to join on a temporary assignment.

The initial contract will run until the end of the year and is available on a part time basis.

The assignment:

Coaching

• Work directly with strategic projects and delivery teams to understand challenges and provide practical coaching in real project situations
• Advise teams on test strategy, risk-based testing, test planning, coverage optimization, UAT readiness, and release preparation
• Coach teams in critical testing and release activities where expert intervention adds the highest value
• Coach teams through active collaboration, helping them solve quality challenges while delivering their projects
• Identify cross-project and enterprise-wide testing opportunities, dependencies, and risks
• Capture lessons learned and translate these into reusable standards, templates, and best practices
• Build sustainable capabilities by enabling teams to become increasingly self-sufficient

Release readiness and quality governance

• Provide independent quality assessments for key projects and releases
• Support go/no-go decisions through objective insights on quality, risk, test coverage, and business readiness
• Promote consistent release readiness and quality governance practices across ICT

Quality reporting and management insights

• Help establish quality reporting standards and management dashboards
• Provide visibility into quality trends, testing progress, risks, and release readiness
• Support management and SteerCo decision-making through objective quality metrics and actionable insights

T

est automation and AI enablement

• Assess testing maturity and automation opportunities across projects
• Advise on fit-for-purpose automation solutions and testing tools
• Evaluate AI-assisted testing capabilities and recommend pragmatic adoption where business value can be demonstrated

• At least eight years of experience in software testing and quality engineering
• Proven experience as a Test Lead, QA Coach, Quality Engineer or Test Manager (mandatory)
• Strong knowledge of Agile, Scrum, and software development lifecycle practices
• Hands-on experience with functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, and user acceptance testing
• Experience coaching teams by observing and learning from testing activities
• Experience introducing testing standards, quality governance, and test reporting across multiple teams
• Ability to assess quality risks and support release go/no-go decisions
• Experience working in complex enterprise environments involving multiple business and ICT stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, and communication skills
• A pragmatic, solution-oriented approach, comfortable operating as both advisor and hands-on practitioner
• Fluent in English and a very good level of Dutch
• Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, or similar platforms
• Experience with Playwright, Tosca or other test automation platforms is an absolute must

Nice to have

• Experience with Microsoft 365, SAP, ServiceNow, integration platforms, data warehouses, or other enterprise business applications
• Experience implementing and scaling test automation frameworks
• Experience assessing automation opportunities and defining automation roadmaps
• Familiarity with AI-assisted quality engineering solutions
• Experience supporting large transformation or SDLC improvement initiatives