QA Engineer

You’re a technically strong QA Engineer with experience of complex, distributed systems.

You’ll be contributing to the quality of critical internet infrastructure within a unique international partnership between Dutch registry SIDN and Canadian registry CIRA, who operate the .nl and .ca top-level domains, respectively.

In collaboration with CIRA colleagues, you’ll work on systems that enable global domain registrations, for which consistency, reliability and security are vital. That may involve travelling to Canada occasionally and will mean bridging organisational boundaries, time zones and operational differences on a daily basis to ensure uniform, predictable platform performance.

You’ll have considerable experience in software development and in the realisation and maintenance of automated test environments. You’ll think in terms of system behaviour, edge cases and data consistency within distributed architectures and testing within an Agile setting where there’s a strong focus on reliability and reproducibility. You’ll develop and maintain automated test strategies, test plans and frameworks covering the entire domain registration lifecycle.

Your work will have direct impact on the stability, availability and security of the internet.

As part of a compact team of about 8 people, you’ll work on critical infrastructure that has to be available 24/7, with reliability and accuracy paramount.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Using industry-standard automation tools to develop and perform automated tests on new products and extensions to existing products

• Planning, documenting, rolling out and managing test strategies for assigned features

• Defining and maintaining test cases for various types of test (e.g. functional tests, performance tests, etc)

• Collaborating with developers and other specialists on product testing, including functional testing, system testing and automated regression testing

• Following best practices for software development and quality assurance

• Communicating information about test progress, test results and other relevant matters to stakeholders and management

• Contributing to the evaluation of new tools to improve the test process and the continuous delivery process

• Continuing the automation and enhancement of the CI/CD pipeline

Our core values of customer focus, trustworthiness, innovation, independence and professionalism strike a chord with you. And you want to keep learning and developing. If that sounds like you, you’ll fit right in! Because we allow people to be themselves.

You’ll also have:

• Extensive knowledge of test automation:

• At least 3 years’ experience of test automation in a client-server environment

• Experience of designing, setting up and maintaining automated tests

• Demonstrable experience of defining and implementing structured test strategies and testing plans

• Experience with test automation frameworks, e.g. Selenium WebDriver;

• Experience of testing REST APIs

• Experience of programming (e.g. using Java, Python or similar) for the automation and maintenance of testing activities

• Experience with performance and soak testing is desirable

• Experience of a modern engineering environment with modern tooling and infrastructure, e.g.:

• Containers and cloud-native technology (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS/EKS, Helm)

• Version management (Git)

• Relational databases (Oracle, Postgres, MySQL) and SQL

• Linux environments CI/CD with GitLab (pipelines, runners, automation) (desirable)

• DevOps tooling e.g. Ansible (desirable)

For us, it’s all about balance. Balance between hard work and relaxation, between performance and reward, between your ambitions and ours, between an inspiring office environment and the convenience of working from home, and of course between professional and private life. As well as utilising the latest, proven internet technologies, we also work with modern IT systems for easy collaboration, remotely, physically and in hybrid forms. We also make sure that our people have well-equipped home workstations, plus access to an office space with everything they need to get together, collaborate and inspire each another.

If you want to go running or visit granny during office hours, we’re okay with that. And if you fancy a workation, that can be arranged. As long as you live up to your professional responsibilities, we’ll work out between us exactly how and when you do your work. And we’re not fans of annual performance appraisal. What really matters is year-round personal development and results. Where you take the lead. It’s a philosophy that our personnel really like: Effectory designated us a Worldclass Workplace for 2025-2026. Recognition for our passion and outstanding employment practices.

Pay and other benefits

What’s in it for you? First, ample opportunity for growth and skills development. After all, you’ll be helping us take our IT set-up in a whole new direction. On-the-job growth will go hand-in-hand with training-based personal development – for which we have a generous budget! There’s an attractive benefits package as well:

• Gross monthly salary of up to €5,800 for a 40-hour week

• Holiday pay of 8 per cent, plus a thirteenth salary payment

• A variable collective bonus of up to 4 per cent

• An attractive extra bonus if you introduce us to a new colleague

• A basic holiday allowance of 25 days, plus scope for building up to 13 days’ occasional leave entitlement, if you work full time

• A pension with ABP

• A business rail card if you come to work by public transport

• A travel allowance if you come to work using your own transport

• Travel allowance of €0.33 per kilometre for business travel

• A PluralSight licence and the opportunity to acquire other certificates

• A daily home working allowance for every day that you work from home

• A complete, healthy home workstation

• €55 a month (net) for your home broadband

• €25 a month (gross) contribution to your health insurance

• Additional parenthood leave on full pay

• An optional cycle lease scheme, where SIDN covers 50 per cent of the lease cost, up to a maximum of €60 (gross) per month

• €500 a year to donate to a good cause of your choice

• Your own .nl domain name and hosting package

• Ample education and training opportunities

• Professional coaching and budget coaching

• A relocation allowance if taking the job means moving house

• Everything above is for a full-time role (40-hour week).

The selection procedure includes screening, which involves obtaining a Certificate of Good Behaviour (similar to a criminal record check), and performing reference and integrity checks.