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Software Test Engineer
Optics11 · 🇳🇱 Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
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About the role
We are looking for a hands-on Software Test Engineer to ensure the quality and reliability of software solutions used in real-world sensing and data processing systems. Optics11 is a deep-tech company developing advanced fiber-optic sensing technologies for challenging environments and applications in energy and underwater security. Our systems enable high-performance sensing and monitoring through advanced photonics, signal processing, and data-driven intelligence. We are expanding our R&D team with a Software Test Engineer who is passionate about quality, structured validation, and delivering robust software in complex engineering environments. As a Software Test Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and executing practical software tests to validate software components (including algorithms, cloud back-end, and user interfaces) that process sensor signals generated by fiber-optic sensing systems. You will work closely with data scientists, signal processing specialists, back-end developers, and software architects to ensure that products meet functional and non-functional requirements. This role requires a hands-on professional with a proactive mindset, a structured approach to software testing, strong attention to detail, and the ability to understand complex technical systems and translate requirements into effective test strategies. Key Responsibilities • Perform functional, integration, regression, system, and end-to-end testing across edge devices, cloud services, APIs, databases, and graphical user interfaces. • Define test strategies, test plans, test cases, acceptance criteria, and automated test scripts for an edge and cloud software platforms. • Identify, document, and track software defects, ensuring clear reproduction steps and proper follow-up. • Collaborate with product owners, developers and engineers to understand system requirements and ensure test coverage. • Contribute to the development and maintenance of automated test frameworks and pipelines. • Test edge–cloud behaviour under interrupted connectivity, delayed or duplicated messages, device restarts, software updates, and synchronization failures. • Validate software performance, reliability, and stability under different operating conditions. • Support testing of software running on edge hardware, including hardware–software integration in laboratory and field environments. • Analyse test results and provide clear, actionable feedback to development teams. • Ensure traceability between requirements, test cases, and test results. • Integrate automated tests into GitLab CI/CD pipelines and help define appropriate quality gates. • Contribute to continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, and quality standards. • Participate in release readiness reviews and ensure software meets quality benchmarks before deployment. • Join one of Europe’s most promising deep-tech scale-ups. • Shape the future of a rapidly growing multidisciplinary R&D organization. • Competitive salary and benefits package. • Enjoy regular team activities and company events. • Fresh team lunches provided 3 times/week. Requirements: Technical skills • Familiarity with test management and bug tracking tools (e.g., Jira, TestRail). • Programming or scripting skills (e.g., Python, C++, Javascript or similar). • Experience developing automated tests using tools such as Pytest, Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, or comparable frameworks. • Experience testing web-based graphical user interfaces. • Experience testing REST APIs, back-end services, or distributed software components. • Experience with Docker, AWS, Gitlab , Linux and CI/CD pipelines. • Ability to design structured, maintainable, and reproducible automated tests. • Familiarity with behaviour-dr