Test Engineer

The contract is with a consultancy in Brussels to be on an assignment at a large European site in Den Haag as follows:- The consultant will perform the following tasks and services. (not an exhaustive list):

The consultant is expected to design, execute and document reusable test approaches/cases in this area and to facilitate actively user/operational acceptance testing. A significant part of the daily work will be focused on non-functional testing (ie performance/technical security/reliability/portability testing).

Good working knowledge of English (min. level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)

Mandatory:

a minimum of 6 years experience in various areas of software testing, including:

- a minimum of 5 years experience in design and execution of functional and non-functional test cases including transferring of requirements into test designs;
- a minimum of 4 years experience in using automated testing tools, test management tools and defect-tracking systems;
- a minimum of 2 years of experience in the preparation/management of user/operational acceptance testing
- a minimum of 2 years of experience in non-functional testing of  web applications covering at least 2 out of the 4 following test types
- Penetration testing of technical security;
- Efficiency testing (ie performance, load and stress testing)
- Reliability testing (ie fault tolerance, recoverability (eg backup and restore, failover/fallback, disaster recovery, startup/shutdown procedures)
- Portability testing (eg installation tests, mobile devices)
- a minimum of 2 years of experience in test automation

Desirable:

- 1 year of experience in developing performance tests using MS Visual Studio;
- 1 year of experience in programming VBScript in combination with HP QuickTest Professional (Functional Tester).
- 1 year of experience in automated test data generation incl. test data management;