OT & Automation Testing Lead

APM Terminals; Den Haag; On-site; EUR 48,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

APM Terminals is seeking a QA Engineer to support, coordinate, execute, document, and report quality assurance and testing activities for automation products and OT deployments across all project phases.

You will work with QA Leads, Product Managers, Deployment Leads, and engineering teams to ensure end-to-end verification before live operations, including test evidence and readiness reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering or related discipline.
• Experience in quality assurance and system testing in industrial environments.
• Familiarity with OT and automation systems.

Responsibilities

• Plan, prepare, coordinate, execute, document, and report testing activities across product development, deployment, commissioning, go-live, and stabilization phases.
• Review requirements to ensure completeness, traceability, and testability.
• Develop and maintain test conditions, test cases, scripts, and acceptance criteria with traceability.
• Execute testing activities including FAT, SAT, integration, interface, operational scenario, UAT, regression, and performance testing.
• Manage defects through identification, classification, tracking, retesting, and root cause analysis.
• Support readiness reviews, quality reporting, and go-live assessments across automation and OT deployments.

Skills

Test planning

Defect management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Automation Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechatronics, Systems Engineering, Quality Management, or related discipline

Tools

Jira

Xray

Job description

APM Terminals is seeking a QA Engineer to support, coordinate, execute, document, and report quality assurance and testing activities for automation products and OT deployments across all project phases.

You will work with QA Leads, Product Managers, Deployment Leads, and engineering teams to ensure end-to-end verification before live operations, including test evidence and readiness reporting.