QA Engineer

Currently, for one of our Partners, we are looking for an experienced QA Engineer (m/f/n) to a project delivered for an organization of the European Commission based in Brussels.

Project Context

The project concerns the transformation, development, and maintenance of eGrants pre-award and audit systems.

The scope mainly includes:

• SEP Submission

• SEP Evaluation

• eAudit

• eGrants NextGen

• Preparation of systems for the next MFF

• Integrations with corporate systems, including CCT, SyGMa, and Compass Corporate

Requirements

• Minimum studies: 3 years

• Minimum ICT experience: 2 years

• Minimum years of experience relevant to the profile: None

• Skills: Testing on SEP Submission / Evaluation

• Practical knowledge of grants and programme rules, e.g. Horizon Europe, LIFE, Digital Europe

• Awareness of EC compliance requirements, e.g. GDPR for participant data

• Experience in interpreting EC call documentation, e.g. Work Programmes and Guide for Applicants

• Knowledge of software development and governance methodologies, e.g. Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, RUP, ITIL

• Experience with backlog management, grooming, refinement sessions, iterative planning and delivery, estimation techniques, and incremental development

• Experience with project management and collaboration tools, e.g. JIRA, Microsoft Project, Confluence

• Experience with requirements management tools, e.g. Jira or GitLab

• Knowledge of testing methodologies, e.g. UAT scripts and regression testing

• Knowledge of data security and compliance practices

Technical Skills

• Testing on SEP Submission / SEP Evaluation

• UAT scripts

• Regression testing

• Unit testing

• Integration testing

• JUnit

• Mockito

• Jira

• GitLab

• Confluence

• Defect tracking

• Test case preparation

• Test coverage reporting

• Validation of delivered solutions

• Web service testing/debugging, e.g. SOA, SoapUI, REST

• Knowledge of REST / SOAP will be useful

• Knowledge of the Java stack will be useful for cooperation with development teams

Responsibilities

• Testing for SEP Submission and SEP Evaluation

• Support testing and validation of solutions delivered by other teams

• Preparation and maintenance of test cases

• Support test coverage and execution reports

• Support UAT scripts and regression testing

• Support the quality of functional and technical changes in eGrants systems

• Support SEP Evaluation analysis and support activities

• Logging, categorising, and tracking defects

• Support traceability and resolution tracking for defects

• Collaboration with Business Analysts, Developers, and Architects

• Support corrective maintenance through validation of bug fixes

• Support root cause analysis through testing and reproduction of defects

• Participation in PI Planning and identification of dependencies between teams

• Participation in Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives

• Support technical backlog refinement from a QA perspective

• Presenting or confirming completed functional and technical changes

• Monitoring quality during sprints and PIs

• Support risk and issue management during PIs and sprints

• Preparation and updating of test documentation

Offer:

• B2B contract

• Set-up: Near-site in Brussels (reloaction requirement)

• Rate: we are open for your expectations