{"id":984287,"url":"https://alion.io/job/lely-team-lead-software-testing-2","title":"Team Lead Software Testing","company":{"id":54550,"name":"Lely","domain":"lely.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/lely","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"SmartRecruiters","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":79,"open_postings":19,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.842,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":41,"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Maassluis, Netherlands"],"countries":["NL"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":7000,"max":8000,"currency":"EUR","period":"month","gross":true,"usd_annual":109584},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-16T12:21:50Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-16","last_verified_at":"2026-09-23T16:30:16Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"Lely, founded in 1948, is committed to creating a sustainable, profitable, and enjoyable future in agriculture. Driven by the challenges farmers face and the needs of cows, we develop high-quality robots and data systems that improve animal welfare, flexibility, and productivity on dairy farms. Our mission is to support sustainable food production.\nFor more than 30 years, we have been a global leader in the sales and service of automated systems for successive generations of dairy farmers. Every day, we inspire our colleagues to provide customers with innovative solutions and to be a reliable partner for long-term advice and support. With our state-of-the-art Lely Campus in Maassluis and a worldwide network of dedicated Lely Centers offering tailored sales and service, Lely operates in more than fifty countries.\n What is your role?\nAt Lely, software plays a crucial role in the performance, reliability, and safety of our robotic solutions. Every day, our products help dairy farmers around the world work more efficiently while improving animal welfare and supporting sustainable food production.\nAs Team Lead Software Testing, you play a key role in ensuring the quality of these solutions. You lead a team of Software Test Engineers who are responsible for verifying software functionality and validating the integration of software within our robotic systems. At the same time, you contribute to the continuous improvement of our testing approach, helping development teams make informed decisions based on objective data and verification results.\nYou combine people leadership with technical expertise. You create an environment where engineers can grow, collaborate effectively, and continuously improve their skills. By working closely with Software, Systems, Electronics, and Mechanical Engineering teams, you help ensure that quality is embedded throughout the product development process.\nThe work is carried out at our campus in Maassluis. Remote working is the exception in this role.\nYour main responsibilities include:\nLeading, coaching, and developing a team of 7 to 14 Software Test Engineers with varying levels of experience. \nDefining and improving verification strategies, test approaches, and quality processes for software and system integration. \nSupporting teams in creating testable requirements and data-driven validation methods. \nProviding insights and recommendations on product maturity and release readiness throughout the development lifecycle. \nDriving collaboration between testing, software development, systems engineering, and other technical disciplines. \nContributing to the further development of testing and verification practices within Product Development. \n You are a people-oriented leader with a strong technical foundation and a passion for product quality. You enjoy helping engineers grow, bringing teams together, and creating clarity in complex development environments.\nIn addition, you bring:\nA bachelor's or master's degree in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, or another relevant technical discipline. \nSeveral years of experience in software testing, verification, or quality engineering within a technical product development environment. \nExperience leading, coaching, or mentoring engineers and supporting their professional development. \nA broad technical interest and affinity with multidisciplinary systems, software, and robotics. \nStrong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build alignment across different teams and disciplines. \nFluency in English. \nYou are able to work from our campus in Maassluis, as this position does not offer the option to work from home.\nExperience within robotics, mechatronics, systems engineering, or complex hardware-software environments is considered a strong advantage.\n Working at Lely means contributing to sustainable progress within one of the most innovative organizations in the Netherlands. You contribute to making the agricultural sector future-proof, and we make sure that you get all the space, resources and support you need to do so.\nAn international working environment with opportunities for own initiative and entrepreneurship. \nExcellent working conditions, including up to 8 weeks of vacation per year and a good pension scheme. \nA salary within the scale of € 7,000 - € 8,000 gross per month, in which we like to see opportunities for growth from your starting salary towards the future. \nYou have the option to participate in a preventive medical examination. \nDuring the Christmas period, Lely closes its door for two weeks. \nGood growth opportunities: you are in control of your development and can choose from various training courses through our Lely Academy, from personal development to job-specific training. \nOur modern Lely Campus offers daily access to extensive sports facilities: an indoor gym, outdoor padel courts, an outdoor basketball and volleyball court, table tennis and table soccer. You can join Hyrox workouts or sign up for personal training - and challenge your colleagues during an active break. \nEnjoy fresh coffee and tea from our own barista, with milk straight from our farm, as well as a healthy and affordable company restaurant. \nflexible working hours and plenty of opportunity to spend extra time on campus (between 6:00 AM and 8:00 PM) for sports and relaxation.\nA free shuttle bus will take you to and from the metro in Maassluis, so your workday starts and ends smoothly. \nSuccesses need to be celebrated: from anniversaries to Christmas parties - at Lely we know how to do it! \nRecruitment & Selection agency, consultancy, and/or secondment agency?\nWe appreciate the interest, but we are looking for all our candidates directly. We understand that you, as an intermediary, want to present candidates for our great positions and thus contribute to our ambitions, but this is not how we have set up our recruitment. 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