A technology company builds software for public spaces. Its applications help municipalities manage assets such as trees, playgrounds, lampposts, and roads, and support municipalities in handling reports from residents. This contributes to a living environment that is sustainable, clean, safe, and future-proof. The software connects data with people, and your work thus has a direct social impact. The organization is evolving. Historically, they worked with manual testers at the end of the development process.
Now, they are moving towards a way of working where quality is an integral part of software development from the start. Quality is an integral part of the team. As a Software Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in this transition. This is a unique opportunity to help build how quality assurance looks within the organization and to bring your experience and vision for better software and a better society.
What you will do.
- Be part of an empowered product team with product managers and software developers.
- Help the team to make quality a structural part of the development process.
- Support teams in identifying risks and determining an appropriate testing approach.
- Help answer questions such as: how do we ensure the quality of this functionality?
- Collaborate with developers on the right balance between unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing.
- Take ownership of the end-to-end regression suite and ensure it remains reliable and valuable.
- Help teams improve test automation and its integration within CI/CD pipelines.
- Coach development teams on software quality and help further develop quality awareness.
- Analyze quality problems and translate them into structural improvements in processes and working methods.
- Contribute to further shaping the quality strategy and help the organization grow into one where quality is built into everything they do.
What they ask
- Several years of experience in software quality, quality engineering, or test automation.
- Experience with Agile software development and multidisciplinary product teams.
- Experience with setting up and maintaining automated tests.
- Knowledge of different testing levels, such as unit, integration, and end-to-end testing, and knowing when which approach is appropriate.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to translate risks into concrete quality measures.
- Be a connector: know how to engage people, ask critical questions, and dare to address others on quality.
- Be pragmatic and understand that quality is always a balance between risk, speed, and customer value.
Wishes.
- Experience with.NET, CI/CD, observability, or SaaS product development.
Practical
- The opportunity to shape software quality within the organization from the ground up.
- A lot of freedom and ownership in how you fulfill your role.
- The opportunity to coach teams and make a hands-on impact.
- A role where your work has a social impact every day.
- A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) is required upon employment.
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