About The Role

As a Software Quality Engineer, youll be part of a multi-disciplinary team. Your team is responsible for a slice of our customer-facing platform, representing a particular business domain. You take care of shaping the quality approach within your team. Of course, tests need to be automated on all levels of the test automation pyramid, it's you who coaches the developers on your team to "build quality in" as part of the process. Everything that should be automated, is automated - driven by you, implemented by the entire team.

Your day-to-day activities will include

• Working embedded inside a development team, on features of our platform. You cultivate the quality mentality and accelerate the achievement of shippable quality
• Creating and maintaining test automation (frameworks) for UI, API, and infrastructure tests that are integrated into our development workflow
• Optimizing the software development lifecycle, eliminating bottlenecks in the process anywhere between ideation and production to improve speed, efficiency, ease of development, and the ability to scale business processes
• Fostering a shared understanding between business and team on the requirements of new features
• Monitor the software running in production and identify and implement opportunities to increase observability, testability, and operability

Must-haves

• You enjoy a challenge and working in a fast-paced environment, where processes and requirements are not always well defined
• Experience in working with distributed engineering teams, applying modern testing methodologies, tools, and techniques
• You have a consistent track record of delivering test automation frameworks and solutions for microservice architectures in Agile and/or DevOps working environments
• Your software development knowledge is up to date in at least one modern programming language.
• Standout colleague: you collaborate effectively with team members, express technical leadership supporting your views and ideas while keeping open to different opinions, being brave and always contributing to the overall growth of the team

Nice to haves

• Experience working as a T-shaped team member, picking up whatever task comes your way
• You have experience in coaching teams in creating a quality culture, applying shift-left principles, and applying continuous improvement
• Besides functional testing, you have some experience with non-functional testing of performance, reliability, availability, and security for distributed systems
• You are a continuous learner who stays up-to-date and you can use your knowledge to tackle whatever problem you face. Whether it's containerized workloads with Docker in AWS, git, gradle, npm, service virtualization, API testing, UI testing, E2E testing, CI/CD, or schema-less datastores, you have the answer or are comfortable figuring it out

What We Offer

Our colleagues are from all over the world - in total there are over 20 nationalities! Next to that, we offer a competitive salary (75-85k) and excellent secondary benefits, such as 25 vacation days, 8% holiday allowance, a 13th month, performance-based bonus and travel allowance of EUR 0,19/km,

Our recruiting process

Does this sound like your next step? Lets talk! There will be a maximum of 3 interview rounds before you get an offer.

Please contact Frank for this vacancy by mail ([email protected]) or by phone (+31 6 2480 2113)

DE FUNCTIE

Jouw drijfveer is ervoor zorgen dat je teams zelfstandig kunnen draaien en ze met behulp van jouw coaching kunnen groeien. Door jouw inspanning komen de teams op een hoger niveau en hierin neem je ook de rest van de organisatie mee. Je verantwoordelijkheden stoppen dan ook niet binnen je team. Interactie en communicatie met andere afdelingen in het kader van de agile implementatie binnen verschillende projecten. Ook overzie jij de doelen van de organisatie en help je mee met het bereiken hiervan.

Daarnaast houd je je bezig met de volgende werkzaamheden:

• Begeleiden en faciliteren van de scrum events;
• Tijdig en grondig wegnemen van impediments;
• Coachen van het team op het vlak van zelforganisatie, multidisciplinair werken en continuous improvement;
• Initiëren van veranderingen die de productiviteit van het agile team verhogen;
• De organisatie verder helpen in haar Agile en DevOps volwassenheid; inclusief implementatie van CI/CD en data quality;
• Beschermen van het team tegen invloeden van buitenaf;

HET PROFIEL

Voor deze interimfunctie zijn wij op zoek naar meerdere overtuigende, assertieve en pragmatische professionals die goede en diepgaande kennis hebben van het Scrum Framework en hier direct impact mee kunnen maken. Ga jij uitdagingen niet uit de weg en weet jij kansen te pakken? Dan ben jij de persoon die we zoeken! Naast je ambitieuze karakter beschik je ook over:

• Minimaal HBO werk- en denkniveau;
• Ervaring als Scrummaster binnen een IT-team;
• Aantoonbare werkervaring in een IT/Data omgeving;
• CSM1 / PSM1 gecertificeerd;
• Expert op het vlak van CI/CD en/of expert op het vlak van Data quality;
• Ervaring binnen een corporate omgeving is een pré;
• Ervaring met SAFe best practices is een pré.

HET AANBOD

• Dit betreft een opdracht op zzp-basis per februari 2023. Tarief is 80,- tot  100,-