Test Automation Engineer - Ghent Office

Job Description

Are you looking for a real challenge in IT and consultancy? Are you ready to grow personally and professionally, together with a diverse team of skilled colleagues? Then, please take your time to go through this opportunity.

Sogeti Belgium is looking for you! More particularly, the Ghent office, is hiring new colleagues to help and support their many clients in West and East Flanders.

We are currently looking for junior, intermediate or senior test automation engineer(s) to join our teams and deliver high-end consultancy services to our clients, both on the international as on the regional level. For more information on our culture and ambition, please check our website.

Do you have a technical mindset, do you love to think about the best ways to check software and are you interested in working with the best-in-class, then this vacancy is great for you.

Job description

As Test Automation Engineer you will be engaged in projects at our customers. You will be a trusted advisor at the client with the support of the whole community of Sogeti behind you. You will be able to deepen your knowledge about the different tools, approaches and frameworks. For those of you who have more experience, you will be involved in pre-sales activities and creating offers for our partners. You are able to convince our clients on how test automation should be approached and carried out. In your daily life you will work on the following tasks in a self-supportive way:

• Be the internal SPOC at Sogeti for all test automation related activities (technical support, presentations, solution architect, proposal writing, training)

• Installing, configuring, and upgrading test tools

• Aligning test automation activities with the manual test process

• Creation and maintenance of automated scripts and applying the latest scripting techniques

• Running all automated scripts and monitoring and assessing the execution results

• Responsible for setting up data, tools and databases to support integrated test environments

Level

Currently we are looking to enrich our teams with junior, intermediate and senior consultants. You can count on a challenge that is equal to your abilities.

Due to our large organization, we can engage resources from all experience levels for our broad portfolio of clients, projects and assignments.

On top of this all, every person’s individual growth is assured due to our focus on T-shaped employees. They have a broad knowledge about IT and business and can go in-depth on their area of expertise. Building knowledge and expertise on both sides allow the company and the resource grow together.

Your profile – Skills & Experiences (in accordance with your level)

• Higher Education (Bachelor - Master level),

• Starting as of 1 year experience in testing of computer systems and test automation

• You have knowledge of and experience with various test tools such as UFT, Performance Center, Selenium, SoapUI, Postman, Jmeter, Appium, Cucumber, FitNesse, Tricentis TOSCA, etc..

• You have knowledge of various development practices (V-model, scrum, TDD, CI, DevOps,…)

• You have knowledge of and experience with a structured test automation process

• You have knowledge of and experience with DevOps/CI tools such as Maven, Github, Jenkins,…

• You have experience in structured programming (Java, C++, Perl, Python,…)

• Your technical background, communication skills and flexible attitude allow you to gain the trust of our customers

• You combine self-organization with teamwork

• You have a high problem-solving attitude

• You have a true consultancy mindset advising and helping the clients to start and accelerate on test automation

• You have an eye for quality and detail and are very accurate in your work

• You have strong communication skills and can adapt your communication style to a specific audience

• You show stress resistance, work independently and take initiatives

Location

• Local Office: Ghent

• Focus area: West & East Flanders

Languages and mobility

• Resident in Belgium and eligible to work in the EU (Preferably in the provinces of West or East Flanders)

• Fluent communication skills in French OR Dutch and
  English

Why should you take the leap?

“Global Reach, Local Touch”: as a global leader in IT consultancy, we are committed to all our employees and clients to spread the knowledge, experience and innovations across West & East Flanders in a pleasant and decent way.

Sogeti is the perfect place to bring your passion for IT into play and learn new skills. You will be given the opportunity to develop your career through working on interesting projects, our internal training & development program and by attending training courses to broaden your knowledge and obtain certifications.

That’s how we boost your personal career and encourage life-long learning in your area of expertise! Your evolution will be monitored closely by your operations manager, a counselor, and your own HR business partner.

You’ll be joining a fun team of people who are passionate about their job. You will be given a lot of trust and freedom. You will learn a lot of new things and will be able to take on new challenges. We value your personal growth and respect your private life. A lot of flexibility will be provided.

We promote a culture of diversity. We believe that working with talented individuals from different backgrounds and points of view is a strategic advantage and an ongoing opportunity. Diversity enriches our creative solutions and adds value for our clients.

With the digital tech sector growing at a rapid pace and women significantly underrepresented in the industry, we are determined to inspire and recruit more women into technology and build diverse teams that reflect the clients we serve.

In exchange for your work and commitment, you will be rewarded with a nice salary, a shiny company car, fuel card, lunch vouchers, eco-cheques, flexible hours, 32 vacation days, a flex plan, a mobility plan, a share ownership plan, the possibility to regularly work from home (up to 70%) and a so much more.