QA Engineer

YoungOnes; Breda; On-site; EUR 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Travel allowance

OpenUp wellbeing partner

Healthy lunch every day

Fitness budget

Snacks and bi-weekly drinks

Job summary

YoungOnes is seeking a QA Engineer who sits at the crossroads of development, product and quality. You’ll help teams see risks before coding, decide test approaches, and build reliable automated tests while executing manual testing when needed.

You’ll act as the central bug liaison, reproduce issues, document requirements for developers, and prioritize fixes. A data-driven, collaborative mindset will help you drive quality across the product.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's level in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.
• At least 2 years of work experience, including at least 1 year as a QA Engineer, Software Tester or Test Automation Engineer.
• Experience setting up test approaches and test plans.
• Experience with test automation and test frameworks.
• You're comfortable working with AI tools and use them purposefully to test faster and better.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum with a bug tracking system, preferably Jira.
• You work independently, make decisions in your own work and give advice when asked or not.
• You're critical and analytical, take initiative and work well with developers, product and business.

Responsibilities

• Think along from the start by joining refinements and highlighting risks and impacts.
• Choose the right test approach per feature, deciding what to test automatically vs manually.
• Build and maintain automated tests for key platform functionality.
• Perform manual and exploratory testing to catch edge cases beyond scripts.
• Be the central point of contact for bugs, reproduce and prepare Jira tickets with priorities.
• Advise on releases by mapping risks and assessing quality.
• Provide insight by collecting test data to show software quality levels.
• Help teams balance bug fixes with building new features.

Skills

Quality assurance

Test automation

Analytical thinking

Agile/Scrum collaboration

Independent decision making

Cross-functional teamwork

AI-assisted testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering

Tools

Jira

Job description

About the role

At YoungOnes, you make sure our platform delivers on its promise: stable, reliable and free of surprises for the people who use it every day. As a QA Engineer you don't work at the end of the chain, but right in the middle of our development teams. You think along before any code is written, test smartly where it matters, and act as the bridge between development, product and the rest of the company when it comes to quality. You report to the Teamlead Frontend and work daily with the frontend, mobile and backend teams.

What you'll do

• Think along from the start. You join refinements and help teams see the risks and impact of a feature before they start building;

• Choose the right test approach. Together with the team, you decide per feature what to test automatically, what to test manually, and why;

• Build and maintain automated tests. You set up tests for key platform functionality and keep them reliable;

• Manual and exploratory testing. You go through the app yourself, look for edge cases and find what a script misses;

• Central point of contact for bugs. Bug reports from across the company come to you. You reproduce them, gather all the information a developer needs to get started, and get them ready in Jira with the right priority;

• Advise on releases. You map out risks and give clear advice on the quality of a release;

• Provide insight. You collect test data and show how our software quality is doing;

• Keep the balance. You help teams weigh fixing bugs against building new features.

What you bring

• A bachelor's level of working and thinking, preferably in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field;

• At least 2 years of work experience, including at least 1 year as a QA Engineer, Software Tester or Test Automation Engineer;

• Experience setting up and carrying out a test approach and test plans;

• Experience with test automation and test frameworks;

• You're comfortable working with AI tools and use them purposefully: to test faster and better, and to set up automated tests;

• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum team and with a bug tracking system, preferably Jira.

• You work independently, make decisions in your own work and give advice, whether asked or not;

• You're critical and analytical, take initiative and work well with developers, product and business.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of TypeScript/JavaScript and you're comfortable working with code;

• You look beyond "does it work?": also at accessibility, speed, security and multilingual support.

• Experience with tests that run automatically on every code change, and you know how to deal with unreliable tests;

• You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping colleagues test better;

• Experience testing mobile apps.

We're looking for someone who sees quality as something the whole team owns. You don't just perfect your own testing work; you ask yourself what needs to change structurally so the whole team tests better. Our own values guide the way: Own it, Say it, Make it.

What we offer

• A gross salary between €3,400 and €4,800 based on full-time employment;

• 25 vacation days, 6.5 ADV days and 1 additional holiday per calendar year, based on a 40-hour workweek;

• 8% vacation pay, a pension plan, and (if you live more than 10 km from the office) a travel allowance;

• We prioritize mental well-being in collaboration with our partner OpenUp;

• Great perks such as: a yearly fitness budget, a freshly prepared healthy lunch every day, snacks, bi-weekly afternoon drinks, XL borrels every three months and much more;