Test Automation Engineer - Council for the Judiciary

Project overview

Please note! This role is only available for secondments/suppliers or for freelancers who join us on payroll. We can tell you more about this by phone.

Project details

€83,- Assignment Description We are looking for an experienced test automation engineer/QA engineer to strengthen the DWD backend team, which works on the Digital Work File of the judiciary. The digital work file (DWD) is used by judges, councilors, and legally substantive employees of the Judiciary.

The tester's tasks and responsibilities are: preparing quality control for new functionality, participating in refinement to sharply define acceptance criteria, building test scripts, integrating test scripts into CI/CD, assessing test outcomes, and finalizing tests in an agile/scrum DevOps environment/methodology, primarily focused on backend software. Driving improvements in quality, test automation, and automation of chain tests. You are the quality conscience within the team and convince your teammates and the PO of the setup of quality processes. Coaching medior testers.

But also analyzing incoming reports from application usage. Assignment Background The Digital Work File (DWD) is used by judges, councilors, and legally substantive employees of the Judiciary. The Judiciary is undergoing a digitalization process. Paper files that are still in use are being replaced by digital files. The primary goal of the application is to make digital files understandable and manageable by reading, annotating, structuring, and summarizing (sometimes very extensive) file documents.

The DWD affects the primary work process of judges and legal employees of the Judiciary and therefore has a significant impact on their daily activities. User-friendliness and cognitive ergonomics are highly valued. Requirements HBO or equivalent thinking/working level, Experience with the tasks described above in the assignment description, working in an agile/scrum/DevOps environment (6 years) REST and Soap protocol, Javascript/Typescript, demonstrable experience with test automation, with a strong preference for Karate.

Experience in a Java/Spring Boot application environment (5 years) Automated delivery and testing in a container environment, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence (4 years) Wishes Knowledge of Azure pipelines, Splunk, SQL Knowledge of Pulsar, AMQ, OCP Knowledge of Cypress and Playwright Other role wishes Availability for on-call services Because the DevOps team is not only responsible for the realization of new functionality but also for the functioning of the systems in production (application management, resolving events and incidents), supporting this is also part of your tasks.

You do not have a nine-to-five mentality and ensure that

• together with the rest of the team
• the sprint goals are achieved and that the applications function well in production. Where necessary, you help others in the team (developers, designers, or testers) to achieve this. Competencies Proactive, takes initiative, strong in collaboration Coaching skills Quality awareness Strong in clear communication Additional information An offered CV must contain the full name, address, date of birth, telephone number, and email address of the candidate. Work situation: Secondment is not allowed. Exclusivity is required upon acceptance of an invitation for an intake up to 4 days after the intake date.
• Start: 2026-11-01T23:00:00
• Location: Utrecht, NL
• Languages: Dutch