Test Analyst
Posted 2 days ago by Huxley
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
Location Liège, Wallonia, Belgium
Summary: The Senior Test Analyst role in Liège focuses on enhancing QA capabilities within a complex microservices environment. The position requires an experienced professional to define testing strategies, simplify processes, and ensure quality maturity while collaborating with both business and technical teams. The role involves significant test analysis and design, with a minor emphasis on manual testing. The candidate will work within Squad Legia on a critical business product, necessitating a deep functional understanding.
Key Responsibilities:
- Define and drive test strategy
- Simplify existing testing processes and reduce complexity
- Ensure efficient and scalable testing approaches across microservices
- Test analysis & design (core focus - ~50%)
- Translate business requirements into structured test scenarios (e.g. Gherkin)
- Identify and define relevant use cases with a strong business perspective
- Challenge requirements and propose improvements
- Define detailed test cases and acceptance criteria
- Work closely with developers who implement automated tests
- Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams
- Contribute to automation strategy (without being the primary implementer)
- Ensure alignment between manual, analytical, and automated testing
- Work within a microservices architecture
- Understand dependencies across systems
- Leverage monitoring tools (e.g. Kubernetes-based environments)
- Manual testing represents a minor part (~10%) of the role
Key Skills:
- 5-7+ years of experience in QA / Test Analysis
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to think in terms of business use cases
- Proven experience in test strategy definition
- Test case design (beyond execution)
- Functional & business analysis
- Experience working in complex environments (microservices)
- Ability to write structured scenarios (e.g. Gherkin / BDD)
- Strong communication skills to interact with both business and technical stakeholders
- Autonomous, mature, and capable of quickly onboarding into an existing product
- Exposure to automation frameworks and collaboration with developers (nice-to-have)
- Experience with Kubernetes / containerized environments (nice-to-have)
- Knowledge of monitoring tools (nice-to-have)
- Experience in distributed teams or post-transition environments (nice-to-have)
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Liège
Country: Belgium
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Senior Test Analyst (Medior-Senior) - Liège (Hybrid)
Context
We are currently supporting a client based in Liège in strengthening their QA capabilities within a mature product environment that has been evolving since 2022.
The team operates in a complex microservices architecture and recently absorbed responsibilities from an offshore team, increasing the need for strong analytical expertise and seniority.
Given recent turnover within the QA team, our client is looking to bring in an experienced Senior Test Analyst who can quickly integrate, understand business flows, and contribute to simplifying testing strategies while increasing overall quality maturity.
The role sits within Squad Legia, a team working on a critical business product requiring deep functional understanding.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive test strategy
- Simplify existing testing processes and reduce complexity
- Ensure efficient and scalable testing approaches across microservices
- Test analysis & design (core focus - ~50%)
- Translate business requirements into structured test scenarios (e.g. Gherkin)
- Identify and define relevant use cases with a strong business perspective
- Challenge requirements and propose improvements
- Test case definition & collaboration
- Define detailed test cases and acceptance criteria
- Work closely with developers who implement automated tests
- Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams
- Support automation & quality practices
- Contribute to automation strategy (without being the primary implementer)
- Ensure alignment between manual, analytical, and automated testing
- Environment awareness
- Work within a microservices architecture
- Understand dependencies across systems
- Leverage monitoring tools (e.g. Kubernetes-based environments)
- Limited execution
- Manual testing represents a minor part (~10%) of the role
Required Skills & Experience
Must-have
- 5-7+ years of experience in QA / Test Analysis
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to think in terms of business use cases
- Proven experience in:
- Test strategy definition
- Test case design (beyond execution)
- Functional & business analysis
- Experience working in complex environments (microservices)
- Ability to write structured scenarios (e.g. Gherkin / BDD)
- Strong communication skills to interact with both business and technical stakeholders
- Autonomous, mature, and capable of quickly onboarding into an existing product
Nice-to-have
- Exposure to automation frameworks and collaboration with developers
- Experience with Kubernetes / containerized environments
- Knowledge of monitoring tools
- Experience in distributed teams or post-transition environments
Candidate Profile
Medior to Senior professional (5-7% seniority)
Strong ownership and accountability mindset
Comfortable in environments with evolving processes
Able to challenge, structure, and improve QA practices
Business-oriented thinker, not just execution-focused
Extra Information
Location: Liège (Belgium)
Work setup: 50% on-site / 50% remote
Start date: June / July (depending on budget validation)
Contract type: Freelance
Team context: Stable product but growing complexity, requires fast ramp-up and strong functional understanding
Interested ? Apply directly or contact me
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