Medior / Senior Test Engineer at Keylane in Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

We are looking for a tester with a clear approach and critical eye when it comes to our software. You will be responsible for the design and execution of test plans. In addition, you take ownership of continuously improving our testing approach, with a strong focus on test automation and smarter, more efficient workflows.

Key about your role

As a Software Tester within a Scrum team, you help the team deliver reliable software that is fit for customer use. You define and apply an effective test approach for epics and stories based on their risks and impact. Together with software engineers, business analysts and the Product Owner, you make quality an explicit consideration from refinement through release.

You design, review and execute manual and automated tests (We use Playwright). You assess test coverage across the relevant testing levels and consider integration, performance and security testing when appropriate. You identify edge cases early, challenge assumptions in requirements and solution designs, and translate test results into clear, actionable quality information.

When defects or test failures occur, you ensure they are clearly documented, analysed and followed up. You help determine whether the right response is a test fix, a product fix or explicit risk acceptance. For larger epics and cross-team work, you maintain oversight of the overall test effort and guide colleagues who contribute to it.

We also embrace AI-assisted testing as part of our development lifecycle. Our engineers use tools such as Claude, ChatGPT and Codex to explore requirements and risks, develop test scenarios, support test automation, analyse failures and document findings. AI is an aid, not a substitute for professional judgement. You are expected to understand and validate its output and remain accountable for the quality, security and correctness of your work.

As part of a community of fellow testers, you keep developing your knowledge of testing techniques, tools, automation and the insurance domain. You share what you learn, contribute to testing standards and help the team treat quality as a shared responsibility.

Key About Your Team

The Axon Product Development department consists of more than 120 colleagues, organised across 9 functional clusters such as Claims, Contracts, Financials and Requests, and 16 Scrum teams. Together, they extend Axon's functionality and continuously improve the product, ensuring it evolves with the changing needs of insurance companies and continues to deliver lasting value to our customers and their policyholders.

Check out our blog posts and videos to see what it is like to work at Keylane.

About Keylane Property and Casualty

As the leading European supplier of robust, highly configurable and customer-centric SaaS platforms to the insurance industry, Keylane offers solutions that optimise today's business processes, unburden our clients and help them remain agile and ready for the future.

We provide and implement continuous upgrades so our customers can comply with the latest rules and regulations. Combined with our commitment to backwards compatibility, this makes us a partner our clients can rely on and gives them a platform that continues to deliver.

• You are passionate about software quality and bring a critical, analytical and risk-aware mindset to complex business processes.
• You have a bachelor's degree or higher and substantial experience testing large, business-critical software systems.
• You can define a risk-based test approach and design, review and execute high-quality manual and automated tests.
• You understand test coverage across different testing levels and know when integration, regression, performance or security testing is needed.
• You contribute to acceptance criteria, challenge requirements and solution designs, and identify edge cases early in the development lifecycle.
• You can identify, reproduce and clearly report defects and vulnerabilities, verify fixes, and analyse the root causes of failing tests.
• You take ownership of improving test automation, testing workflows and quality standards, including their integration into CI/CD practices.
• You have experience writing automated end-to-end tests using Playwright or similar technology.
• You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, work effectively across teams, and guide colleagues in recognising and addressing quality risks.
• You understand Agile ways of working, organise your work independently, and can maintain oversight of the testing effort for larger or cross-team initiatives.

It is a plus if you have experience with the insurance industry, data modelling, SQL or databases such as DB2 and PostgreSQL.

Using AI

• You are interested in using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT or Codex as part of the software development lifecycle. For example, to explore solutions, understand unfamiliar code, generate or improve code and tests, refactoring, troubleshoot issues, document solutions and support code reviews;
• You understand that AI-generated code and suggestions must be critically evaluated, tested and reviewed. You take ownership of the quality, security, correctness and maintainability of the code you deliver;
• It’s a plus if you have experience with or interest in CI/CD (TeamCity, Bash, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef, etc.) and in integrating AI-assisted development into these practices.

*A Certificate of Conduct (VOG) and reference check are part of the application process.

*Each employee within Keylane must follow training on information security and irrespective to the role basic information security responsibilities apply

• A monthly gross salary between € 3.500 and € 5,200 based on 40 hours per week.

• 8% holiday allowance of your total gross salary.

• A profit share.

• A pension scheme, with the option to save extra.

• Travel reimbursement: Receive a mileage allowance of €0.23 per km or an NS Business Card, which can also be used for personal travel

• 24 holiday days (with the option to buy extra) and 7 inclusion days, which can be exchanged with fixed Dutch national holidays, allowing you to take them when you like.

• Flexibility in working environment. As part of a hybrid working team, you will work partly from home and partly from the office. If you work in the office, a free lunch is waiting for you every day. If you work from home, you will receive a working from home allowance (€ 4 net per day) and internet allowance (€ 35 net per month).

• The possibility of working remotely from abroad for up to 2 months per year.

• The possibility to lease a bike through our bike leasing program.

• A one-year contract that, subject to satisfactory performance, will be converted into a permanent contract.

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