Responsibilities

1. Testing Strategy Design

• Develop the overarching testing strategy that aligns with organizational goals and agile methodologies, in collaboration with the Tribe Product Owner.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure testing strategies meet business, functional, and technical requirements.

• Establish metrics to measure the effectiveness of testing strategies and continually optimize them.

2. Define Testing Practices

• Standardize testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing.

• Advocate for a shift-left approach to embed quality assurance throughout the development lifecycle.

• Promote the adoption of exploratory testing, automated testing, and other modern testing techniques.

3. Testing Tool Selection and Implementation

• Identify, evaluate, and recommend testing tools that align with the organization’s needs and technical stack.

• Lead proof-of-concept (POC) initiatives to assess new tools and technologies.

• Oversee the integration of tools into CI/CD pipelines for seamless and automated testing.

4. Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work with main stakeholders to ensure testing efforts align with user expectations and product goals.

• Communicate testing strategies, progress, and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Ideal Profile

• Language requirements: Sound knowledge of English - knowledge of a local language is a plus (French / Dutch)

• Education: Bachelor/Master or equivalent by experience

Agile requirements    

The person joining the tribe will have to

• Act as the owner of testing initiatives within agile teams, ensuring alignment with sprint goals and delivery timelines.

• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and DevOps teams to establish testing as a cornerstone of the development process.

• Foster a culture of quality and accountability across all teams.

• Thirst for knowledge: Agile is about learning and adapting. Knowledge sharing is key to success.

• The goal of team success: Agile is about the success of the team, no individual success or heroic behavior. It is more important for the team to succeed than for the individual to have completed his/her tasks.

• There is no failure, only feedback: Agile is about taking everything as lessons, adjusting actions based on the feedback, resulting in continuous improvement.

Required experience / knowledge  

• At least 5 years of relevant experience

Technical experience               

Mandatory      

• Understanding of test automation frameworks and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.

• Familiarity with cloud-based testing environments, UI, API and performance testing tools.

Business experience           

Preferable        

• Specific requirement for agile: practical experience with Scrum

Soft skills     

• Quality-first mindset with attention to detail.

• Strong leadership and initiative-taking ability.

• Ability to manage competing priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

• Passion for staying up-to-date with industry trends and advancements in testing methodologies.

• While you actively share your knowledge with other developers (practices, technical, …), you also suggest improvements to the other squad members. You are constantly trying to improve the way of working of the squad.

• You are someone who easily adapt and bond with new colleagues.

• Collaboration and feedback are key elements of your personality.

• You dare to challenge the requirements you receive based on your expertise.