Our client is one of the world's leading manufacturers of lithography equipment and a majority of the world's microchips receive their critical lithographic patterning in their machines.
As part of the services development team, help safeguard quality of delivered software by improving test approach and speeding up qualification of team deliverables.
You will be part of a team with 3-6 developers, a test architect and a Scrum Master, Product Owner and functional domain expert.
Your team will work together with many other teams on building reliable solutions for our customers using a SAFe-Agile approach.
The collaboration with our client has reached the 10 years threshold and we have more than 300 talented colleagues working alongside the client.
Business trips to the client site in the Netherlands might happen 1-2 weeks/quarter (every 3 months)

Responsibilities:

• Together with the team and the test architect, co-determine test approach and create test specifications.
• Work with the team on testing across the product stack
• Contribute to continuous improvement activities in test approach and implementation areas, particularly in areas of test automation and automation frameworks
• Advise on test approach and hands-on improve existing automated tests, finding the right balance between test coverage and test duration, taking risk into consideration.
• Develop and execute automated testing for assigned projects to successfully and consistently enable delivery of high-quality software products and services on time, and to specification
• Submit issues for encountered problems and follow up on them. Investigate failures, perform root cause analysis, and utilize the internal defect tracking tool to create detailed, high quality defect reports
• Introduce junior team members to appropriate test techniques. Improve knowledge of testing in your team.
• Suggest process/tooling improvements where necessary. Contribute to defining internal QA goals (evaluation of new tools, setting up new process for performance testing, creating/updating/delivering training to new hires)

Mandatory Skills Description:

• At least 5 years of work experience with focus on testing
• Proven background of at least 4 years in test tools and methods.
• Proven test automation experience of at least 4 years with proper automation frameworks.
• Strong background in working with Linux and Java applications
• Strong background in testing server-side software, RESTful web services & GUI applications, Junit, Mockito, Selenium, SQ
• Understanding and experience of Agile

Nice-to-Have Skills Description:

• Experience with testing distributed platforms and microservices is a plus.
• ISTQB certification is highly appreciated.
• You should first of all be passionate about technology and should be excited by the idea that his work will impact millions of end-users worldwide.
• You should be analytical, product and quality-oriented.
• You like to investigate issues, you are creative in solving problems and you do not fear to present your solutions.
• You are open-minded, you like to discuss about technical challenges and you want to push the boundaries of technology.
• You take ownership and you support your team, you are the backbone of your group.
• You are client and quality oriented - you do not settle for second best solutions, but you strive to find the best ways to acquire top results.