Your Role
As a Tribe Test Engineer, you will play a key role in driving quality across a large-scale Agile organization delivering digital products and services.
You will act as a central coordinator for test automation and quality assurance activities across multiple squads, ensuring alignment on standards, tools, and best practices. You will contribute to shaping and evolving the overall test strategy while supporting teams in delivering high-quality, reliable, and scalable solutions.
This role combines technical expertise, strategic thinking, and strong stakeholder collaboration in a fast-paced and continuously evolving environment.
Key Responsibilities
Test Automation Leadership & Technical Oversight
- Define and continuously improve the test automation strategy at tribe level
- Review and challenge squad-level automation (API, UI) to increase reliability, efficiency, and coverage
- Assess and improve automation frameworks in terms of scalability and maintainability
- Collaborate with DevOps teams to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Monitor and analyze automation metrics (execution time, flakiness, coverage) to support data-driven decisions
Stakeholder Alignment & Communication
- Translate technical challenges into clear and actionable recommendations
- Facilitate workshops and promote best practices (shift-left testing, BDD, service virtualization)
- Report on progress, risks, and blockers to leadership in a structured and transparent way
- Advocate for automation investments by demonstrating value and ROI
- Align testing priorities with business goals and delivery timelines
- Act as an escalation point for complex testing and automation issues
Profile
- 5+ years of experience in test management or quality assurance with a strong focus on automation
- Proven experience defining and improving test strategies in Agile environments
- Strong expertise in API testing (e.g., RestAssured, Karate) and service virtualization (e.g., WireMock)
- Experience with UI test automation (e.g., Playwright, Appium)
- Solid knowledge of test frameworks (Cucumber, JUnit, TestNG) and BDD methodologies
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI)
- Understanding of performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling
- Ability to translate business requirements into test strategies and risk-based approaches
Nice to Have
- Experience in large-scale Agile or distributed environments
- Familiarity with regulated industries
- ISTQB certification
Soft Skills
- Strong collaboration and teamwork mindset
- Ability to challenge and improve technical practices
- Strategic thinking with a focus on long-term quality
- Clear and structured communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Problem-solving mindset with a proactive approach
- Results-oriented and quality-driven
- Adaptable and comfortable in fast-moving environments
Languages
- English: mandatory
- French and/or Dutch: strong assets
Work Setup
- Hybrid working model with 50% onsite presence in Brussels
Join ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS and become an expert in IT comfort!
ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS is seeking to hire people passionate about IT not afraid to mix serious work and a bit of madness!
Opportunities are numerous. From bare applications development to of IT infrastructures management including conception, architecture and requirements analysis.
Although open to technologies used by our customers, ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS seeks mainly but not only consultants mastering: Windows and Linux Servers, networks, developments (JAVA, SAP, .NET,…) as well as highly specialized experts for example in cybersecurity or in Content Management System (CMS) (SharePoint, Drupal, WebLogic…).
In terms of non-technical competencies, ABAKUS IT-SOLUTIONS hires dynamic persons, open to the world, interested by innovation and having a keen sense of client relationship.
A very good command of English is essential, the capacity to speak French, German or Dutch is an asset.
Even though most of our positions require at least 3 years of experience, some are open to new starters.
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