About this role
QA Specialist (Education Platforms) - 32 to 40 hours - €4791 - €6845 You don't just find bugs you also want to understand why they occur. You dive into code, logs, and APIs, identify the root causes of issues, and collaborate with developers and Technical Product Managers to find structural solutions. As a QA Engineer at SURF, you'll work on digital services used daily by Dutch educational and research institutions. You'll be involved from the start of every sprint, contribute ideas for technical improvements, and help our development teams build reliable and future-proof platforms. Where you will work SURF is the IT cooperative for Dutch education and research institutions. Together with them, we work on digital services and complex innovation challenges to improve the quality of education and research. Within our Accessible and Open Education & Research (AOER) unit, we collaborate with institutions to develop smart solutions for flexible education, digital learning materials, and the sharing of educational data. As a QA Specialist, you'll play your part in this effort. The team you will join You'll become part of our Development Team: a relatively new and growing team of platform engineers, developers, and designers. We work closely together, share our knowledge, and help each other continuously improve our digital services. As a QA Engineer, you'll work on three of our services: Publinova, SURFsharekit, and edusources. You'll interact daily with developers and Technical Product Managers and work closely with the team behind the Content Exchange Platform, on which these services run. You'll be involved in the development process from the very beginning. You'll test new features, investigate bugs, and work with your colleagues to identify practical improvements. In this way, you'll make a direct contribution to the quality of our products. What you will do As a QA Engineer, you monitor and improve the quality of Publinova, S...