Test Coordinator

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Title: Test Manager/ Test Coordinator

Location: Brussels/Antwerp, Belgium

Employment Type: Contract

Mode of Work: onsite

Language: Dutch

Key word: Insurance, Test, Mainframe, Jira

Job Description

The Test Analyst is responsible for drafting, coordinating and executing a test plan, possibly together with other test analysts, to ensure thorough acceptance testing of new or modified programs/software. These acceptance tests ensure that the final production rollout of the new software is of high quality and error-free. Hands-on focus — not a test coordinator role.

Main responsibilities

• Test plan creation
• Define the scope of the test project
• Perform risk analysis related to testing
• Determine test strategy (stakeholders — who, test levels — when, quality attributes — what)
• Define test clusters
• Develop the test approach (RRBT: Risk Requirements Based Testing)
• Specify test environment and infrastructure
• Set up the test organisation
• Create the test schedule
• Validate acceptance criteria
• Test preparation and analysis
• Prepare test activities and analyses based on requirements and functional analysis
• Execute tests, possibly together with testers from the operations organisation for system and acceptance tests
• Perform (re)tests
• Log defects
• Check and analyse test results
• Assess and report findings
• Validate requirements and functional design
• Create test cases, including test data and test scripts
• Guide and support testers
• Coordination of test execution
• Track progress of the test plan
• Explain test activities to testers and follow up on these activities
• Ensure activities proceed according to agreed quality and quantity standards
• Report on test progress, including coverage and defect counts

Profile

• Languages
• Dutch: native
• French: good understanding required; speaking is a strong advantage
• English: required (understand, speak, read, write)
• Must have
• A1 or university degree in Computer Science, or equivalent by experience in a similar role
• Minimum 10 years' experience as a test analyst on Mainframe environments
• Experience with functional testing
• Experience in the insurance sector, preferably in life insurance
• Experience with a test management tool, preferably ZEPHYR
• Experience with defect management tools, preferably JIRA
• Strong communication skills
• Experience working in an Agile environment
• Proactive mindset
• Commitment and engagement
• Nice to have
• Experience with TOSCA (test automation)
• Experience with Enterprise Architect
• Experience working in release processes and environments
• Experience with output systems
• Experience with archiving systems