Description

Our DevOps product team is responsible for the Sorting Decisions platform, which routes millions of parcels to their correct destinations. This back-end system ensures that mail item data is processed timely and accurately, making logistical processing as efficient as possible. The software development team implements complex business rules and creates multiple interfaces to third-party systems. As a QA & Ops Engineer, you will ensure that our interface contracts are upheld and that the platform runs bug-free. Furthermore, you will play a key role in defining test strategies that meet the business needs of our customers.

Your job

You oversee and ensure the quality of the software we deliver to our customers. This includes implementing automated testing frameworks, performing stress tests, and verifying the accuracy and completeness of the documentation provided to our clients. In parallel, you hold key responsibilities in operations, which involve deploying the software, conducting smoke tests, and executing rollbacks when necessary. Additionally, you ensure that the software complies with auditing quality gates set by ISO and ISAE. You are adept at identifying issues promptly and accurately, and you can reconfigure software components to maximize uptime.

You understand both functional and technical requirements, creating test cases based on them, and you can effectively communicate these to the developers and the product owner. Additionally, you critically assess your team’s performance and propose process improvements for any structural issues you identify. By helping to define clear quality gates, you enable the software team to deploy software to production with confidence.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Convert functional and technical requirements into reusable test cases.
• Parametrize compliance norms into auditable metrics that the software adheres to.
• Perform deployments and rollbacks using automated deployment pipelines.
• Configure site-specific applications in preparation for software deployments.
• Create and establish quality gates for the development team.
• Automate as many tests as possible to reduce the software’s maintenance costs.
• Conduct stress tests to evaluate system performance.
• Troubleshoot and debug system issues, implementing timely fixes.
• Execute white-box penetration tests and share findings with the team.
• Communicate test results and challenges to relevant stakeholders.
• Continuously seek to improve the team’s workflow.

What we offer

We offer a full-time position in an informal and professional working environment with a lot of room for personal development and many extras:

• First-hand access to customer challenges and a real possibility to positively impact them in their sorting processes.
• A product development team with a pivotal position within the department, with an overseeing Product Owner and clear goals for 2 customers for 2024-2026.
• Opportunities to learn from the most experienced software engineers in the company.
• An open and inclusive workspace with colleagues from more than 20 different nationalities.
• A globally oriented company with an equally global client base.
• A full range of digital tools will be at your disposal.
• Competitive salary.
• Company laptop and mobile phone of choice.
• Extra perks such as snacks and excellent coffee every day in our cozy Grand Café.
• Training sessions by a personal trainer in our in-house gym.
• The possibility to work flexible hours.
• A profit-sharing scheme for all employees.
• The option to purchase additional vacation days on top of the 25 standard holiday allowance.

Your profile

• Master’s degree (WO) thinking level.
• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience as a QA engineer.
• Python programming skills.
• Robot Framework programming skills.
• TMap or ISTQB knowledge, (certificate is a plus).
• Knowledge of Test Driven Development (TDD) and the testing pyramid.
• Experienced in performance testing, functional testing, usability testing, E2E testing, explorative testing.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Octopus.
• Strong communication skills across stakeholders.
• Ability to switch between a detailed approach and a high-level understanding of the system, with an understanding of the relationship between functional and technical components.
• Ability to perform Root Cause analyses.
• Knowledge of team process improvements.
• Ability to perform deployments.

Nice to have qualifications:

• Experience in creating unit tests and integration testing.
• Proficiency in the Dutch language is a plus.
• Experience in Test Automation.
• Familiarity with backend technologies (e.g. Typescript).
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.

Particularities

In the context of corporate responsibility, Prime Vision as a company is particularly open to applications from people with a disability.

Convinced this job fits you?

We would love to receive your resume and motivation letter or -video! Please send your application to HR at sollicitaties@primevision.com.