Senior Test Automation Engineer (DF)

Description

The company builds robots and farm management software for dairy farmers, and that software shapes how well its products perform, how reliable they are and how safe they are.

Founded in 1948, the company has supplied automated systems to dairy farmers for more than 30 years and operates in more than fifty countries.

As Senior Test Automation Engineer, you help set the quality engineering and test automation direction for the farm management platform, guide technical choices and raise the maturity of testing across teams.

Your work goes beyond writing and maintaining tests. You set up the conditions that let teams ship quality software with confidence.

You own strategic quality work, spot where things can improve, and help teams make decisions based on objective quality data.

You lead automation across component, API and end-to-end levels, grow component testing, and build the test infrastructure, including CI/CD pipelines, execution environments and runners, so feedback stays fast and reliable throughout delivery.

As a senior member of the Test Automation Chapter, you define standards, share practice, coach engineers and shape the long-term direction of test automation in Digital Farming. Many changes reach past one team, so you align with stakeholders and engineers in the Netherlands, Turkey and Portugal.

You also work hands-on in a Scrum team on tests and quality practices for the platform.

The company culture rewards learning, experimentation and ownership of ideas, in an international setting that values collaboration, initiative and diverse perspectives.

Responsibilities

• Define and develop the test automation strategy across component, API and end-to-end testing.
• Lead quality improvement initiatives and drive their adoption across multiple teams.
• Give technical direction and coaching to test automation engineers in the Test Automation Chapter.
• Own the component testing domain: set its approach, expand component test coverage and integrate it into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Drive collaboration between testing, software development, architecture and other technical disciplines in the Netherlands and Turkey.
• Provide objective insight into product quality, risk and release readiness.
• Design, build and maintain automated E2E and API tests in TypeScript and Playwright.
• Design, build and maintain component tests in C using Testcontainers.
• Help move tests from Cucumber to Playwright.
• Manage and improve CI/CD test pipelines in GitLab.
• Own the automated quality gates that decide whether code is ready to merge.
• Manage the Windows VM test lab and its supporting infrastructure.
• Maintain dashboards, reporting pipelines and quality metrics.
• Maintain the tooling and scripts for test execution and infrastructure automation in PowerShell, Python, Azure, Windows and Kubernetes environments.

Requirements

• You are a people-oriented senior engineer with a strong technical base and a passion for product quality.
• You enjoy helping engineers grow, bringing teams together and bringing clarity to complex development environments.
• A bachelor's or master's degree in Software Engineering or another relevant technical field, or equivalent ability in working and thinking.
• At least 5 years of experience in test automation, verification or quality engineering in a technical product development setting.
• Experience guiding, coaching or mentoring engineers on technical initiatives.
• A broad interest in multidisciplinary systems, software and robotics.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align teams and disciplines.
• Fluent English.

Conditions

The work is mainly done at the campus in Maassluis.

Hybrid working: you work on campus at least three days a week.

Flexible hours, with the option to spend extra time onsite between 06:00 and 20:00.

Occasional travel to Turkey is expected to support collaboration and the rollout of improvements across teams.

Salary range of €6.000 to €8.000 gross per month, with clear room to grow within the scale.

Benefits

• Up to 8 weeks of vacation per year and a strong pension scheme.
• Full ownership of your development, with access to a wide range of courses through the company academy.
• Daily access to campus sports facilities: indoor gym, outdoor padel courts, basketball and volleyball courts, table tennis and table football, plus Hyrox workouts and personal training.
• Fresh coffee and tea from the in-house barista, with milk from the company's own farm, and a healthy, affordable company restaurant.
• A free shuttle bus between the metro station in Maassluis and the campus.
• Celebrations such as anniversaries and the annual Christmas party.