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Tribe Test Engineer

Mission context
DevEx tribe aims to enhance development experience by making application development faster, smoother while preserving and ensuring a higher quality.

Join our DevEx Tribe as a Tribe Test Engineer and help shape our testing strategy, define best practices, and select/integrate testing tools—ensuring quality. The position is 50% at the office and 50% working from home.

Function Key Responsibilities

1. Testing Strategy
   Develop and implement a scalable testing strategy aligned with organizational goals and agile methodologies, in collaboration with the Tribe Product Owner and other squad members.
   Own testing initiatives within agile teams.
   Foster a quality-first culture, embedding shift-left testing and continuous improvement across squads.
2. Standardizing Testing Practices
   Define and enforce standardized testing methodologies, including:
   • Integration Testing (e.g., RestAssured, Karate)
   • System & End-to-End Testing (e.g., Cypress, Playwright)
   • User Acceptance Testing (UAT) (e.g. Octane)
   Promote automated testing (UI, API, performance) and CI/CD integration to accelerate feedback loops.
   Advocate for non-functional testing.
3. Testing Tool Selection & CI/CD Integration
   Evaluate, recommend, and implement modern testing tools aligned with our tech stack (Java, JavaScript/TypeScript).
   Lead Proof-of-Concept (PoC) initiatives for new tools.
   Oversee tool integration into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., automated test execution on merge requests).
4. Stakeholder Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing
   Partner with Product Owners, Scrum Masters, DevOps teams and Testing Guild to embed testing as a core development practice.
   Translate technical testing outcomes into business-insightful reports for stakeholders.
   Mentor teams on best practices, test automation, and quality assurance, fostering a collaborative, feedback-driven culture.
   Challenge requirements based on testing expertise, ensuring feasibility and risk mitigation.

Language

English. Sound knowledge of English - knowledge of a local language is a plus (French / Dutch).

Education

Bachelor/Master or equivalent by experience.

Agile requirements

• 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 / Technical mandatory knowledge

• At least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Hands-on expertise with:
  • Test Automation Frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright).
  • BDD/TDD (Cucumber, Octane).
  • API Testing Tools (Postman, Bruno, RestAssured, Karate).
  • CI/CD Pipelines (Gitlab-CI, Jenkins).
  • Version Control (Git).
  • Excellent knowledge of Java in a test engineering context.
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and shift-left testing principles.
• Eager to use AI technologies to improve software testing and to upskill in other programming languages.

Nice to have

• Experience with containerization (Docker).
• Business domain knowledge (e.g., finance, banking, payments).
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) (e.g., Terraform).
• Knowledge of Javascript/Typescript.

Business preferable experience

Specific requirement for agile: practical experience with Scrum.

Soft skills

• Quality-first mindset with meticulous attention to detail.
• Adaptability & collaboration thrives in fast-paced, feedback-driven environments.
• Passion for continuous learning: stays updated on emerging testing trends (AI in testing, observability, chaos engineering).
• Proactive knowledge-sharing: actively improves team processes and challenges requirements when needed.