Test Automation Engineer in NETHERLANDS

Storyteq helps marketing and creative teams in top brands to scale their creative production and gain control over their marketing campaigns. Through our platform, our clients can streamline campaign workflows, automate their creative production through templates & AI and activate engaging campaigns that go to market faster. We believe creativity takes time, but creative production shouldn't. Since 2016 our mission has been to revolutionise the way creative assets are created and used. Magic happens when we let technology empower creativity. Our endless curiosity and relentless commitment to our customers lies at the heart of our problem-solving approach. This shared mission is woven into our values: we dream big, think differently, and are stronger together.

As a Test Automation Engineer you will be part of our Quality Engineering Team. Your main responsibility is to build out our automated test efforts and test processes in the team you support. Your role will primarily focus on automating critical E2E flows, assisting developers by iteratively improving their automated testing practices (reviewing e2e automated test code and improving e2e test automation DX), and implementing solutions for our Test Automation efforts as part of the Quality Engineering team.

We are looking for an experienced Test Automation Engineer with strong E2E automated test skills to join our Engineering team. In this role you will support our development teams in making our product more amazing every day for all our users. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Increase coverage of, maintain, and extend your domain's E2E critical flows to help your team improve its confidence in deliverables
• Support your team in implementing modern best practices of automated testing to help build stable, scalable and robust test frameworks at E2E and API layers (Test Trophy).
• Implement test tooling and test process improvements (DX)
• Iteratively develop our quality and testing culture towards the long-term goal of high-confidence test and release autonomy of development team deliverables (quality assistance model)
• Reduce repetitive manual testing needs as much as possible through automated test coverage, process improvements, and tooling implementations

Key Requirements:

• Have at least 3+ years of experience working with Playwright/Cypress/Selenium or other modern E2E framework (Playwright preferred)
• Have a solid understanding of semantic HTML, CSS, and core JavaScript concepts (you know how to add testIds to FE components)
• Solid test automation programming skills (Node.js ecosystem preferred (JavaScript / TypeScript)
• Demonstrated ability to develop test frameworks and autonomously contribute solutions to complex test automation challenges
• Experienced in planning automated test coverage of a deliverable in collaboration with a team
• Define your successes as a Test Automation Engineer by enabling a team to reach continuous delivery of their work confidently and autonomously to production through shift-left practices
• You are a strong communicator and collaborative team player that does not shy away from a reasonable debate over the merit of your ideas
• You are proactive, result-driven, and excited to work in a fast-growing tech scale-up.
  Great English communication skills (this is a must)

Bonus:

• Working knowledge of CI/CD tooling in that you're able to setup, extend, maintain and debug pipelines in gitlab/gitlab/jenkins/circleCI/etc. (gitlab preferred)
• Experienced in developing test frameworks for REST / GraphQL APIs and have helped enable teams to increase test coverage of them (Vitest/PHP Unit/Pact/Bruno preferred)

💰 A salary of 50k-65k EUR annually (based on your experience).

📈 Employee stock ownership.

📅 27 days of annual leave (Well-being Day and Volunteer Day included).

🏡 Hybrid working model (working from home 2 days a week).

🚆 Travel allowance.

🌎 Relocation allowance to help you cover the costs of your move to the Netherlands. The amount is decided on a case-by-case basis. Work VISA and 30% ruling application support (if applicable).
🚲 A bicycle lease plan with Hellorider after 1 year of employment.

💻 Excellent tools: High-end Laptop, Monitor, and everything in between!

📚 We support your continuous improvement with training, courses, conferences, and books.

🌦 Mental health and wellbeing support: Access to OpenUp.

🥪 Office lunches and endless snacks at the Amsterdam Office.

🍻 The best Friday afternoon drinks and quarterly team outings.

👵 A Pension contribution for employees who are based in the Netherlands.

🐶 Pet-friendly office, so feel free to bring your furry friend!

We Value Diversity
We champion and welcome diversity in our workforce and ensure all job applicants receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.

We are not only committed to increasing the visibility and recognition of talent from under-represented groups within our organisation but the wider industry too.

At the end of the day, we make sure we take time to look after ourselves, each other, and the planet because we're always stronger together.

ITG have a number of community groups (ERGs) available to employees which offer a safe space for like-minded colleagues, with shared interests to connect, socialise and check in with each other. These include Black ITGers Together, LGBTQ+ Together, Mens Health Together, Muslims Together, Neurodiversity Together, Working Parents and Carers Together and Women In Tech Together.