We are seeking a Senior QA Test Engineer to join our team in Brussels, Belgium. The successful candidate will be responsible for defining the scope of testing, planning test activities, and ensuring effective collaboration and interaction between team members. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in testing, excellent communication skills, and experience working in an international environment.
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Job Description
For an European institution in Brussels, Belgium, we are looking for a Senior QA Test Engineer.
EU candidates are welcome to apply. Candidates need to be willing to relocate.
A work permit is required for non-European candidates, but not provided!
This position is open for contractors and employees. Candidates need to be fluent in English.
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Define the scope of testing within the context of each release/delivery;
- Responsible for the planning test activities, both functional and non-functional testing;
- Participate in the requirement analysis phase to ensure an effective test strategy is devised;
- Ensure that all processes related to Quality Management are set up and maintained;
- Work together with the relevant stakeholders to devise a strategy for security/penetration testing;
- Ensure effective collaboration and interaction between the team members in performing a thorough end-to-end functional and non-functional testing of the System(s);
- Validate the Test Summary Reports along with testing evidence delivered for all testing-related activities and provide expert comments on the deliverables and accept or reject them;
- Maintain all documentation related to Quality Management;
- Support the project team and the Contracting Authority on all issues related to Quality Management;
- Plan, support deployment and manage the testing effort for any given engagement;
- Participate in the test management meetings such as 'end of FAT' and 'end of SAT' meetings;
- Carry out quality audits and IT processes quality assessments;
- Plan end-user testing, including MS testing;
Profile:
- Bachelor or Master degree;
- +8 years of relevant work experience;
- Excellent knowledge of the testing lifecycle and the landscape of the tools to automate the test cases to perform;
- Excellent knowledge of testing standards and methodologies;
- Good project and contract management knowledge;
- Hands-on experience using project management tools (JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, etc.) and methodologies (Prince2, PM2, PMI, Agile, SAFE, Scrum, etc.);
- Ability to chair meetings and give presentations;
- Ability to apply high-quality standards to all tasks;
- Knowledge of software development and testing methodologies;
- Capacity in writing documents;
- Good communication skills: ability to communicate effectively with the development team;
- Experience and willingness to work in an international/multicultural environment;
- Fluent in English;
Following countries are part of the European Union: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Republic of Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden.