Specialist – Test automation engineer, ICT Deparment in Europol

Europol is a well-established and recognized organisation that became an EU agency in 2010. It is constantly looking for creative, self-reliant and energetic employees, who are up to the challenges involved in international crime-fighting.  

Europol employs more than 1,000 personnel, including around 160 analysts, to identify and track the most dangerous criminal and terrorist networks in Europe.  Our people come from a variety of professional backgrounds such as law enforcement, finance, legal, information technologies, human resources, communication, etc.

Place

The Hague, the Netherlands

Requirements

•  Be a national of one of the Member States of the European Union and enjoy full rights as a citizen
•  Have fulfilled any obligations imposed by the applicable laws on military service
•  Produce appropriate character references as to his or her suitability for the performance of the duties
•  Be physically fit to perform the duties pertaining to the position (prior to appointment the successful candidate will be medically examined by one of the institution’s medical officers in order that the institution may be satisfied that the candidate fulfils the requirements of Article 12(2)(d) CEOS)
• Produce evidence of a thorough knowledge of one of the languages of the Union and a satisfactory knowledge of another language of the Union to the extent necessary for the performance of the duties
• A level of education that corresponds to completed university studies attested by a diploma when the normal period of university education is three years or more

Selection criteria

Experience in software testing on various levels (including user and operational acceptance testing) covering also data migration and system integration testing

• Experience in automated GUI related regression testing using Selenium WebDriver with coded unit tests
• Experience in developing and maintaining re-usable test automation frameworks for automated regression testing in continuous integration
• Experience in testing micro-services (REST APIs) and applications running in containers (e.g. Docker Swarm/Kubernetes) using test automation tools and virtualized components (i.e. mocking/stubbing of services)
• Experience in designing and executing non-functional tests covering aspects such as:
  o Technical ICT security (using SAST and DAST tools/scans)
  o Efficiency testing (i.e. performance, load and stress testing)
  o Reliability testing (i.e. fault tolerance, recoverability e.g. backup and restore, failover/fallback, startup/shutdown procedures)
  Desirable:
  • Experience in co-ordinating project specific test teams
  • Experience in working in DevOps teams using continuous testing approaches in release pipelines

Dead line

6 November 2019

More information

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