Overview
Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer Jobs in Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium at NTek Software Solutions
Title: Senior Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Company: NTek Software Solutions
Location: Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium
Role: Senior test Automation Engineer
Location: Antwerp, Belgium (Hybrid)
Duration: 15/06/2026 – 31/12/2026 (with option to extend (2028))
Language: English & French / Dutch
Description
Responsibilities
- Designing, setting up and maintaining automated testing with a focus on backend processes
- Testing of APIs, integrations and event-driven flows
- Validating asynchronous communication between systems
- Elaboration of BDD scenarios (Gherkin) and implementation via automation frameworks
- Integration of testing into the CI/CD pipeline
- Analyzing and debugging complex errors in distributed systems
- Working closely with developers, analysts and architects
- Contribute actively to testing strategy and quality improvement
Must-have skills
- Minus 8 years of experience
- Strong experience with backend testing
- Demonstrable experience with queuing systems/messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS or similar)
- Thorough knowledge of asynchronous architectures
- Java as the primary language for test automation
- Experience with automation frameworks (e.g. JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber…)
- Practical experience with CI/CD (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab…)
- Experience with BDD/Gherkin
- Experience within a Java context
Pros
- Experience in large enterprise environments
- Knowledge of end-to-end integration testing
- Strong debugging skills in complex landscapes
- Experience with Agile/Scrum
Skills
- 8 years of experience as a test automation engineer
- Demonstrable experience with queuing systems /messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ, JMS)
- Wide storage with automation frameworks
- Ervaring with BDD / Gherkin
- You are prepared to work partly remotely in Brussels
- You speak French or Dutch in combination with English
- Practical experience as a test automation engineer in a Java environment (Java is the primary language for automation)
- Practical experience with CI/CD