Quality Assurance Engineer (Junior/Medior)

Job Description Quality Assurance Engineer

As our Quality Assurance Engineer (junior / medior level), you will be testing the new functionality and assuring the quality of our platform. Are you that eagle-eyed person that can spot the cracks in our code and make sure these are fixed? Please note that we do not offer Visa sponsorship for this role.

We would like to expand the team of testers. Our current senior Quality Assurance Engineer will show you the ropes. Currently, there are two development teams in the company: PHP and Matlab. To achieve the highest standards of quality, you will have to communicate closely with both teams on a daily basis. Within the team, you will be responsible for the quality of your own assigned projects besides constantly improving our QA process.

Working together as a team is very important to us at KYOS. We believe in synergy, and that only together we can develop even better practical solutions for our clients. Therefore, we expect you to be communicative and actively seek and provide feedback to your colleagues. Good constructive collaboration will bring us further whilst helping you to grow professionally.

What you’ll be doing

  • Performing functional and regression testing
  • Planning, creating, running test cases
  • Ensure reported bugs are fixed, it is your task to follow up with the developers and have them do the corrections timely
  • Carrying out regular maintenance and enhancement of the existing test base
  • Participating in 3 amigos meetings and define requirements together with the PHP and Quant teams
  • Controlling the feature delivery process

Must have qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related area like computer sciences
  • Experience in similar role, depending on level but roughly 0-2 for junior, 3-5 for medior
  • Hands-on experience with black-box, exploratory, regression testing
  • Practical experience with GitHub
  • Knowledge of software development process
  • Ability to work as a team and independently
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English
  • But above all, you must have attention to detail and be persistent to get things solved

Will be a plus

  • Proven experience with test management tools such as TestRail
  • Strong knowledge and experience with test tools like Postman, Swagger
  • Experience in API testing
  • Experience in web automation testing (a big plus)

What we offer

The chance to make the first or second step in your career as a QA Engineer. Learn about:

  • End-to-end API testing with Jest
  • Describing business requirements with Cucumber/Gherkin
  • Competitive remuneration
  • A nice international team of colleagues to work with
  • Working in a hybrid model
  • A full-time position, 32 or 40 hours/week

How to apply as Junior Quality Assurance Engineer

First of all, please confirm that you are an EU-citizen, or eligible to work in the EU. Visa sponsorship is not provided for this role. This position is based in Haarlem, the Netherlands, around 15 minutes by train from Amsterdam and also close to other major Dutch cities.
After the first round of interviews, the application process might involve a skills test and/or assessment.

In your motivation letter, please tell us why you should be our next junior Quality Assurance Engineer. Furthermore, we would like to know why you would like to work for KYOS, and what experience and skills you will bring along. You can send your application (CV and motivation letter) to: info@kyos.com