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Test Automation Engineer

  • Hybrid
    • Gent
  • Development

Job description

Are you someone who gets genuinely excited about catching bugs before users do? 🐛✨ At Zero Friction, we’re looking for a Test Automation Engineer who loves digging into new features, making testing smarter (not harder), and wants to help us scale a platform that’s transforming the energy sector.

From manual test plans to automated regression suites — you’ll play a key role in ensuring our product works flawlessly across browsers, devices, and countries. If you're ready to be the gatekeeper of quality in a growing SaaS scale-up, keep reading. 👇

But first, let us introduce ourselves 👋

We are Zero Friction. We offer a reliable and efficient B2B SaaS platform for district & communal heating and cooling suppliers and building managers. We’re serving small to Enterprise customers and shaking things up in the district heating and cooling market. Without major investment, billing and cost allocation of collective heat and other energy types is fully automated. We’re fully in the scale-up phase and mentality, where we like to work together to build a success story.

Ready to fight friction with us? 🚀

Job requirements

🤓 Main responsibilities

  • Set up and improve testing processes and documentation standards

  • Create and execute manual test plans and test cases for new features and bug fixes

  • Maintain and run regression test suites for every release

  • Design and implement automation tests using tools like Selenium, Playwright, or Testcafe

  • Collaborate with developers and product to define clear acceptance criteria

  • Own the quality gate in release go/no-go decisions

  • Keep our test documentation clear, up-to-date, and actionable

🧰 Your toolkit

  • Familiarity with the .NET framework and C#

  • Solid experience with REST API testing and browser-based testing

  • Hands-on experience with test automation tools (Selenium, Playwright, Testcafe or similar)

  • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows

  • Comfortable testing in a microservices architecture

  • Cross-browser and cross-device testing know-how (desktop and mobile)

  • Experience with Azure Test Plans or similar test case management tools

  • Experience with Azure DevOps or other issue tracking systems

👂 Does this sound like you?

  • Analytical thinker with a structured approach to problem solving

  • You get satisfaction from catching issues before they reach users

  • Communicative and collaborative — you love working with devs, product, and support teams

  • Detail-oriented without losing sight of the bigger picture

  • You don’t just report bugs — you help prevent them

🤝 What's our offer?

  • A high-impact role in a fast-growing scale-up

  • A competitive salary package tailored to your personal needs

  • Flexibility in working hours and location (hybrid work is totally fine)

  • A supportive, no-nonsense team that loves solving real problems together

  • Work with a view — quite literally. Our impressive terrace overlooks the Ghent skyline

🤩 Excited?

Don't hesitate to apply — we only accept applications in English. 👇

You’ll be recruited based on competencies. People’s qualities are what matter most, regardless of gender, religion, ethnic origin, age, sexual orientation or any disability.

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