The SFPD

The Federal Pensions Service (SFPD) has 4 main missions

• Inform and advise citizens about their retirement
• Define and grant retirement benefits and IGO/GRAPA (Inkomsten Garantie Ouderen / Income Guarantee for Elderly People)
• Pay retirement benefits, pensions, allowances, compensation for terrorism victims, and IGO/GRAPA correctly and on time
• Support political decision-making by providing data, impact analyses, and expertise

The ICT department helps SFPD fulfill its missions by providing business users with the tools necessary for their function.

Approximately 250 people work within the ICT department and are divided into 2 services.

The development service is responsible for creating the application, and the Platform & Enabling service is responsible for providing the development teams with the infrastructure and resources necessary for the creation of their applications.

Function

As a tester, the candidate will join a cross-functional team responsible for developing the application components (front and back end) used within SFPD. The candidate will work in a team (Archimedes) responsible for Pension Payment responsibilities.

Adaptations in these processes are made in a "monolithic" application as well as in several stand-alone applications/modules.

The main responsibilities of the medior tester are:

• Create a test plan and define acceptance criteria with the business and development team for each increment, optimize existing test plans
• Create, document, and execute integration and end-to-end (E2E) tests
• Ensure the automation of the execution of created tests (personally and supervise the realization)
• Monitor and maintain existing integration and end-to-end test cases
• Evaluate and improve test coverage rationally
• Assess the priority and criticality of detected bugs and take precise action
• Support the analysis and development process by providing critical feedback
• Participate in organizing user acceptance testing

The tester will also take on the following roles:

• Scrum master of the team: ensure the organization and monitoring of agile rituals within the team, implement an "inspect and adapt" mindset
• Domain Quality steward: ensure the monitoring of test best practices within the domain's teams (4)

Technical skills

• Advanced proficiency in test definition (defining acceptance criteria, creating the test plan, executing the test plan)
• Advanced proficiency in test automation techniques (methodology, best practices)
• Advanced proficiency in SQL (creating medium complexity queries: joins, deltas, etc.)
• Active knowledge of test frameworks (test levels, test responsibilities, etc.)
• Active knowledge of object-oriented language (writing Java code is required)
• Active knowledge of a versioning system such as GIT
• Active and recent experience in an agile environment
• Active knowledge of XML
• Capability and recent experience in independently and autonomously managing E2E testing of a feature
• Knowledge of different test tools used at SFPD (Xray, Postman, Cucumber, Playwright, etc.)
• Recent experience in implementing complex payment/accounting systems

Are an asset:

• ISTQB, TMAP or equivalent certification
• Scrum master certification
• Recent experience in the public sector / social security systems is a strong asset
• Active knowledge of REST and SOAP exchanges

Behavioral skills

The desired collaborator:

• Is proactive, persevering
• Is assertive
• Has team spirit
• Is curious
• Is motivated to bring added value to the organization
• Is professional: ability to accept the choices of the community even if they differ from personal preferences
• Is open to feedback
• Is able to work autonomously
• Is ready to take initiative
• Is able to set priorities
• Is able to communicate clearly with stakeholders (e.g.: user counterparts, other development teams)

Selection criteria

• Mastery of applicable technical skills and tools.
• Technical skills: Test analysis, test automation techniques, mastery of the different levels of the test pyramid (definition, implementation, best practices), E2E management of identified bugs (detection, analysis, validation)
• Tools: Playwright, Cucumber, Postman/Bruno, Git, Jira, Miro, Opengrok
• Language: Advanced knowledge of Java (writing code), writing SQL queries (medium complexity queries), XML, Rest/SOAP interfaces

• Methodology: Agile (scrum)

• Mastery of the required behavioral skills. Special importance is given to team spirit, autonomy (being the only tester on a project), and initiative

• Experience as a Scrum master
• Knowledge and experience in a large payment and accounting system. Knowledge of the pension allocation and payment system is a strong asset

The candidate should mention in their CV which best practices should be followed for the creation of automated tests, and why.

The candidate must be available to work full-time from 01/11/2026 (project requirement).

The candidate must be present on site 2 days/week.