Senior Test Engineer

Location: Brussels

Preferred Start Date: 01/08/2026

Duration: Until 31/01/2027

Language: English

Work Arrangement: Full-time, hybrid (2 days on-site per week)

About The Role:

Are you a Senior Test Engineer who strives to constantly improve processes? Do you thrive in an autonomous cross-functional team? We are looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Test Engineer to join us to boost our software development, integration tests, and accelerate our delivery cycles to production. You will be working alongside a dynamic team that is fully responsible for interfaces integration for our Alliance Cloud team. You will have a unique opportunity to expand your reach in terms of knowledge, network, and build your expertise through software and knowhow.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively assess groomed stories and define, review, and communicate required test scenarios during squad ceremonies.

• Lead and perform qualification of stories, ensuring agreed acceptance criteria are met and that delivered features meet quality standards.
• Proactively highlight risks, unclear requirements, or potential quality gaps.
• Align with the testing cluster to execute regression testing related to the regular release and product level initiative.
• Participate in change planning and risk mitigation activities.
• Suggest improvements to increase testing efficiency, quality, and operational robustness.
• Provide guidance and coaching to less senior testers.

Professional Skills:

• Autonomous, empowered with the ability to drive, adapt, and respond to change.
• Customer-oriented and quality mindset – we continually strive to deliver true customer value.
• Open-minded, solutions-oriented, and a team player – gaining energy through collaboration with others.
• System installation and setup in the lower environment and production environment.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Good problem analysis and solving mindset.

Technical Skills:

Must Have:

• Software testing: functional, non-functional, regression, acceptance, system integration (SI), end-to-end (E2E), release qualification, post-deployment testing.
• Cloud & containers: Red Hat OpenShift, multi-environment testing.
• Test management: Jira, Jira Xray, test planning, defect management.
• Test data management: test data design, generation, versioning.
• Infrastructure & systems: Linux (Red Hat), Windows/UNIX shell, networking basics, XML, Oracle DB.

Good to Have:

• Advanced testing: exploratory, chaos, resilience, scalability, stress, endurance, SCE, usability testing.
• API & messaging: REST API testing, SoapUI, Messaging API, A2A/U2A, FIN/InterAct/FileAct.
• Advanced DevOps: Infrastructure automation, observability (ElasticSearch, Kibana, OASIS).
• Compliance: ISAE 3000 testing, audit-grade evidence handling.
• Engineering practices: peer code reviews, cross-squad automation coordination, Agile testing practices.
• Others: Java, JUnit, Git, Maven/Ant, Docker, Kubernetes, Security testing tools: Coverity, Burp Suite, Nexus IQ.
• Performance testing: performance and load testing, benchmarking (e.g., Jmeter).
• Test automation: automated regression, CI/CD-integrated automation.
• Tools & languages: Robot Framework, Java, Python, JUnit.
• CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins/CloudBees, DevOps practices.
• Alliance products knowledge/experience.
• Messaging formats knowledge/experience.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures and running distributed systems.

Experience Required:

• Agile Testing Senior (6-9 years)
• Alliance products knowledge/experience
• Messaging formats knowledge/experience
• Unix Command Senior (6-9 years)