Test Lead Engineer

Project overview

For our end client Enexis, Harvey Nash is looking for a Lead Test Engineer.

Please note! Please send responses via the website, including the following information:

Availability in hours per week

Has the candidate worked for Enexis before?

Holiday plans within the next 3 months

Expected start date: ASAP

Duration of the assignment: 31-12-2026

Option for extension: yes

Number of hours per week: 36-40

Location of work: Den Bosch

On-site or from home: Flexible working hours and the possibility to work remotely part of the week. On average, two days a week at the office.

1 to 2 times a week in Den Bosch and regularly on Tuesdays in Weert (in consultation).

ZZP possible: No

Deta-Vast: No

Deadline for proposing candidates: 20-9 4 PM

Position scale: 15

Target rate (all-in, including travel and parking costs and any overnight stays, excluding VAT): 93.99 Euro

Date of intake interview at Enexis online or on location: to be determined

Type of screening: Basic

Assignment description

The assignment:

You will join us at an interesting time. The energy transition is in full swing, and you will feel it in every fiber of our organization. Smart maintenance, feeding back energy, living gas-free, optimizing the energy system, and the future energy infrastructure; these are just a few examples of the developments we are working on at Enexis. This leads to a diversity of changes and innovations in processes and supporting systems, where you can make valuable improvements regarding the acceleration of value creation and continuous reliability.

As a Test Lead Engineer, you will work within the HR & Other Staff value chain, closely collaborating with colleagues in multidisciplinary DevOps teams. The teams consist of various roles, such as a scrum master, developers, analysts, and test engineers, working together in an agile manner and jointly responsible for developing, configuring, testing, and managing software applications and data applications within their domain; such as the platform applications SAP SuccessFactors (Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll), Mendix development applications (for HSE), and Power BI reports.

As an experienced Test Lead Engineer, you will help the teams deliver the highest quality of software and data and perform optimally together. After getting acquainted with and analyzing the teams, you will develop a roadmap for improving the testing approach within the HR & Other Staff value chain, based on Enexis's vision of quality and testing. You will support and guide teams by setting up and executing test processes, registering findings, and ensuring the quality of software and data. You will play a crucial role in setting up, executing, and maintaining automated tests based on risk analyses and strategy.

You will work at the forefront of one of the greatest challenges of our time: realizing the energy transition.

The department and teams:

The HR & Other Staff value chain is one of the four value chains within Homebase Digital4ALL. The other value chains are Finance, IT Solutions & Support, Employee Service Management.

Over 200 IT professionals work in this cluster, which focuses on realizing products and services for our internal customers. The HR & Other Staff value chain consists of a total of 6 teams, each comprising approximately 6 to 10 colleagues. In addition to the HR Systems team-1, HR Systems team-2, and Analytics & Reporting teams, the HSE (Health, Safety & Environment), FM (Facility Management), and ET&O (Enexis Training & Education) teams are also part of this value chain.

Responsibilities

Realizing and implementing test strategies and roadmaps with improvement points for test processes, test automation, and quality assurance.

Defining and maintaining test architecture and test plans with optimal deployment of test levels and test types.

Creating test cases using specification techniques, creating logical and physical test cases, applying risk analyses, strategy, and executing test scenarios.

Setting up, maintaining, and executing manual and automated tests based on best practices and using the Tricentis Tosca tool (including quality gates and pipelines via GitLab).

Developing and maintaining regression test sets to quickly identify and resolve regressions.

Coordinating test activities within hybrid cloud and SaaS environments, managing teams, and guiding stakeholders in test responsibilities.

Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting test results (including coverage, remaining risks, and proposals for improvement actions) to enhance test efficiency and effectiveness.

Knowledge transfer: coaching and training engineers according to the "I do, We do, You do" methodology.

Collaborating and aligning with teams, suppliers, and other stakeholders to ensure sprint and PI goals meet the correct quality criteria and optimal value is realized for the business.

Keeping project and test management applications, such as Jira and TesterSuite, up-to-date. Documenting executed tests and providing advice for decision-making (Go/No-Go).

Personal skills:

Critical, analytical, flexible, and proactive and decisive attitude.

Strong drive for improvement, quality and results-oriented, problem-solving ability and mentality.

Team player with self-reliance and excellent communication skills, able to switch effortlessly at operational, tactical, and strategic levels.

Excellent command of the English and Dutch languages, both spoken and written.

Excellent coaching and training skills, familiar with Test Automation best practices and able to explain and apply them.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience at a senior level with agile software development, quality engineering, DevOps, and coaching teams within complex IT environments.

HBO/WO education and certified in at least one of the recognized standards for software testing and quality assurance (such as ISTQB, TMAP, ISQI CAT, or similar standard).

Demonstrable hands-on experience and/or knowledge of the test tooling Tosca and OSV from supplier Tricentis. Preferably certified in the AS1, AS2, TDS1, AE1, and API components.

Hands-on experience and/or knowledge of HR systems and processes, SAP SuccessFactors, Mendix low-code development, and/or Power BI is a plus.

Extensive experience with test software and setting up and configuring infrastructure for test automation at various clients/assignments, enabling automated tests at different levels (in an isolated environment).

Experience with or knowledge of methodologies and frameworks (such as Scrum, DevOps, and SAFe/Agile) and test concepts and techniques (such as Context-Driven Testing, Rapid Software Testing, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavioral Driven Development (BDD), Built-in Quality, and Shift-Left).

Strong communication skills and stakeholder management, including clearly conveying technical and functional test knowledge to other engineers.

Interested? We would like to receive a CV and the following information (without this information, the CV will not be processed):

Earliest possible start date

Availability in hours per week

All-in rate (incl. travel, parking costs, and any overnight stays, excl. VAT)

Has the candidate worked for Enexis before?

Holiday plans within the next 3 months

Place of residence

Motivation

Two references will be requested upon onboarding

By responding to this request, the Contractor declares to have taken note of and agrees with the General Hiring Conditions or General Hiring Conditions for Independent Professionals of Harvey Nash and the associated Client Annex Enexis. These can be found at www.harveynash.nl/Enexis

Project details

• Start: z.s.m.
• Duration: 31-12-2026
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant, NL
• Languages: Dutch