Product Owner - (technology platform)

KH01 Kramp Groep B.V.; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 74,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 vacation days

12 ADV days

Flexible working policy

Travel and working from home allowance

Profit sharing bonus

Budget for training and courses

Generous pension plan

Job summary

Kramp Groep B.V. in Utrecht is seeking a Product Owner to lead our QA Platform vision and roadmap, driving quality initiatives across more than 30 product teams.

You will shape testing strategy, accelerate test automation, and empower teams with the right tools, frameworks, and best practices to deliver high‑quality solutions at speed. You will partner with developers, QA architects, and business stakeholders to track KPIs, own the backlog, and foster a quality‑first culture across Kramp’s

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a Product Owner in a tech environment.
• Vision for technology platforms enabling multiple teams.
• Strong product management and stakeholder management skills.
• High-level understanding of Test Engineering or QA leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own the QA Platform backlog and roadmap aligned with business goals.
• Collaborate with developers, platform teams and QA architects.
• Drive test automation adoption and quality governance across teams.
• Define KPIs to measure platform quality, stability and efficiency.

Skills

Product Owner

Quality leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Test automation

Platform management

Tools

Playwright

BrowserStack

Job description

Kramp is Europe’s leading specialist in parts and accessories for the agriculture, forestry, landscaping, and construction industries. Through our strong e-commerce platform, deep product expertise, and customer-first approach, we help our customers keep their businesses running. At Kramp, we make it easy for our customers to run their businesses.

To support this ambition, we’re looking for a Product Owner to join our Technology team and drive our QA Platform. In this role, you will help build, scale, and embed a quality-first culture across our digital landscape, ensuring our teams have the vision, tools, processes, and capabilities needed to deliver high-quality products at speed.

Your Role

As a Product Owner, you will lead our QA Platform vision and roadmap, driving quality initiatives across more than 30 product teams at Kramp. You will play a pivotal role in shaping our testing strategy, accelerating test automation, and enabling teams with the right tools, frameworks, and best practices to deliver high‑quality solutions efficiently. Acting as a trusted partner, coach, and advocate for quality, you will collaborate closely with other product teams to promote a culture of continuous improvement and quality ownership. By sharing your expertise and influencing ways of working, you will empower teams to build quality into every stage of the development lifecycle. Together with our technology organization, you will help create reliable, scalable, and customer‑centric products, ensuring exceptional digital experiences for customers across Europe while supporting Kramp’s ambition to grow and innovate at scale. Be a key contributor of shaping the QA vision and the implementation of the QA Strategy aligned with Kramp’s Tech strategy and ensure initiatives support strategic goals. Establish and track measurable KPIs to evaluate platform quality, stability, security, cost efficiency, adoption, and developer satisfaction. Own and prioritise the QA Platform team’s backlog, ensuring alignment with business objectives, customer needs, and organisational priorities. Create clear, actionable user stories with well‑defined acceptance criteria to support effective delivery for the QA platform team to develop. Collaborate closely with developers, platform teams, QA architects, and business stakeholders to gather requirements, incorporate feedback, and drive platform improvements. Champion test automation, quality engineering best practices, and strategic QA initiatives to increase adoption and engagement across teams. Ensure QA platform implementations contribute to overall platform quality, reliability, stability, and operational excellence. Monitor, analyse, and report on platform performance and key metrics to support data‑driven decision‑making. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks related to QA platform initiatives while fostering a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence. Additionally, you will work closely with our QA Platform Lead to build, scale, and lead the QA Platform Team, taking ownership of the platform’s vision, strategy, and delivery. You will empower and enable product teams across Kramp by providing automation frameworks, testing tools, and best practices, while driving a quality‑first culture throughout the organisation. This includes: Defining the roadmap and priorities for the QA Platform, ensuring alignment with business and engineering objectives. Driving the adoption and effective use of test automation tools across Kramp (such as Playwright, BrowserStack, and related technologies). Driving the process of optimising test environments, tooling, test data management, and quality processes. Ensuring an excellent developer experience through robust QA support, guidance, and enablement. Partnering closely with the QA Practice Lead to shape and evolve Kramp’s overall QA vision, strategy, and standards. Building and supporting the QA Platform Team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Who are you?

• 5+ years as a Product Owner in a technology‑driven environment with experience in managing products or platforms that need to be adopted and enabled across the organization.
• Proven ability to define and evolve the vision of technology platforms that enable multiple teams, and drive the strategy and adoption needed to make them successful.
• High‑level understanding of Test Engineering, QA, or Quality Leadership.
• Experience managing complex platforms and driving quality initiatives.
• Strong product management and stakeholder management skills, with a demonstrated ability to build effective relationships, influence decision‑making, and align cross‑functional teams at all levels of the organisation about QA initiatives.
• Passionate about driving change and inspiring others to embrace new ideas, technologies, and ways of working.
• Skilled in prioritising initiatives based on business needs, stakeholder input, and organisational priorities.
• Nice to have Experience or exposure to test data management, test environment management, and quality engineering practices at scale.
• Proven success in enabling enterprise‑wide test automation, quality governance, and continuous improvement across multiple product and engineering teams.
• Experience on agile methodologies applied in large enterprise organisations.
• Experience on ERP large transformation programmes.

What do we offer?

At Kramp, we believe meaningful rewards help people grow, perform, and thrive. Our reward package is designed to be fair, transparent, and competitive, giving you confidence and support to do your best work.

We offer an attractive salary of €6,597 - €8,063 gross per month, depending on your experience and qualifications.

• 25 vacation days and 12 ADV days (based on a full‑time contract)
• Flexible working policy in hours and location
• Travel and working from home allowance
• Profit sharing bonus
• Great budget for training and courses
• Generous pension plan

About us

Thanks to our ambitions we are active throughout Europe: a leading position in the agricultural market for parts. We heavily invest in E‑Business and innovations. Our aim is to make it easy for our customers to run their business. Working at Kramp means working with over 3500 international colleagues. The people at Kramp are enthusiastic, professional and involved. We speak our customers’ language, understand their challenges and earn their trust to exceed their expectations. Our promise “It’s that easy” is embedded in our culture and DNA.

Working at Kramp means

• you belong here! Being part of our open business community
• your work makes a difference! Have an impact on what matters
• you will develop and realise! Learn and realise your potential

More about Kramp: https://group.kramp.com/en/careers/

Location: Utrecht (NL)