Senior Test Engineer
ThoughtLabs Belgium
Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium
2 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
Dutch, English, French Experience level
SeniorJob location
Wezembeek-Oppem, Belgium
Tech stack
API
Software Bug Management
Code Coverage
Scrum
E2e Testing
Test Data
Web Services
Backend
Information Technology
Data Management
Front End Software Development
Application Client
Job description
- Define test objectives and approach for E2E testing, ensuring alignment with business and technical requirements.
- Ensure that test plans are developed and maintained, supporting the goals of the individual products while also aligning with the global project objectives.
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work closely with program managers, project managers, product owners, business analysts, and business stakeholders to ensure testing efforts meet both technical and business expectations.
- Act as the primary point of contact for testing-related discussions, ensuring clear communication of test progress, risks, and outcomes.
Test Coordination & Execution
- Oversee test activities across different phases and levels, assigning responsibilities, ensuring adequate test coverage and verifying compliance with quality standards.
- Coordinate functional, integration and end-to-end (E2E) testing to validate system workflows and business processes.
- Coordinate with business users to conduct UAT ensuring the system meets their requirements and expectations.
Test Data Management
- Lead and structure the test data provision in SUT and adjacent systems based on best practices and industry standards ensuring compliance with legislation and applicable norms.
Defect Management & Risk Mitigation
- Track defects progress, facilitating resolution with development teams.
- Assess risks in testing and implement mitigation strategies to minimize impact on project timelines and deliverables.
Test Reporting % Quality Assurance
- Aggregate and analyze test results, including identifying and categorizing defects, providing clear and actionable reports to stakeholders.
- Offer insights on readiness, risks, critical open defects and quality trends to support Go/No Go decisions.
QA Chapter contribution
- Proactively participate in the QA Chapter initiatives, fostering collaboration between testers and other roles and enabling sharing knowledge and lessons learnt, between teams/projects.
- Support the Chapter in achieving key objectives as part of the initiatives for continuous improvement.
Requirements
- You are able to speak, read and write fluently English and French or Dutch.
(All texts are written in English and the standard language used by the team is English)
- Demonstrated experience in creating comprehensive E2E test plans
- Hands-on experience in coordinating and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT) activities with business stakeholders is a must
- Capability to recognize non-functional testing needs.
- Proficiency in assessing test scope and guaranteeing comprehensive test coverage.
- Proven experience in coordinating Agile/Scrum teams
- Be able to work autonomously.
- Proficient in stakeholder management.
- Have a critical mind and dare to challenge.
- Be able to understand technical IT concepts like: Service and Client Application, Web Service, API, Protocol, Frontend, Backend, etc.
- Soft skills: Active, Creative, Autonomous, Think out of the box, Result driven, Pragmatic and Resilient.