Test Lead

Be part of our growth and become our new Test Lead

Your future ecosystem
Between Rotterdam and The Hague, you find the greenhouse capital of the world: “Het Westland”, where our campus is located in De Lier. A region with great economic impact to the Netherlands as the second food exporting country, right after the US. In these 100 square kilometers, Priva was founded in the fifties and is still a family business. We emerged from our knowledge in climate control in glasshouses, but we expanded our knowledge to Building Automation.  

Priva started as a hardware company and transformed into an innovative software company that grew to become the global market leader in horticulture and a leader in building automation in Europe. Today, we are a high-tech family business developing hardware, software, and digital services for climate control, energy-saving, and optimal reuse of water, with solutions found in landmarks like the Rijksmuseum, Hilton Hotels, and Westminster Abbey. 

Our next step is to conquer the digital domain and become a digital service provider, selling subscriptions to "climate as a service." We enable horticulture to be predictable and scalable while helping to grow profitable crops almost everywhere, supporting our customers in realizing their business plans and meeting their targets.    

We are proud to be working with over 600 colleagues, in 16 international branch offices divided over 12 countries together with over 400 international installation partners to deliver our sustainable solutions and services in more than 100 countries.

How you add value

As a Test Lead, you will be responsible for coordinating and aligning test strategies across multiple development teams working on a single integrated product.
You won’t be managing a team, but you will play a central role in ensuring consistent and effective testing practices within the teams involved.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain an overarching test strategy for the product across embedded, cloud, and external components.

• Review and provide feedback on test plans and test cases created by team members.

• Coach QA engineers within the teams, supporting their development and promoting alignment in testing approaches.

• Work closely with internal and external stakeholders to ensure testing efforts support the overall product goals.

• Ensure adequate test coverage is achieved within available time and resources.

• Contribute to the identification and implementation of test management tools and frameworks.

• Provide clear reporting on product quality and test progress to key stakeholders.

• Support the teams in adopting best practices for both manual and automated testing.

While you won’t be performing hands-on testing daily, your role requires a strong foundation in embedded software testing and the ability to operate across different technologies and domains.

You are a highly experienced QA professional with a background in embedded systems, hardware, or software for hardware devices. We are looking for someone who:

• At least 10 years of experience in software testing, including embedded systems.

• Proven experience in system-level testing, including test planning and risk-based testing.

• A strong understanding of test automation strategies, including knowledge of Robot Framework and tools like SonarCloud.

• Hands-on knowledge of relevant technologies: Python for embedded testing, and C# for cloud testing.

• Familiarity with test management tools and frameworks.

• Experience coaching QA engineers and helping teams adopt structured test approaches.

• A pragmatic mindset with a focus on quality, efficiency, and collaboration.

• Experience in hardware-related products or consumer-driven embedded environments is a strong advantage.

What you get

In numbers:

• A gross salary based on your experience in the range of € 6.300, - and € 6.800, - based on 40 hours a week;

• We find a healthy work-life balance important: flexible working hours combined with 30 vacation days a year and the option to buy more;

• 8% holiday allowance;

• Travel allowance of € 0,23/km with a daily maximum of 150 kilometers.

For your own sustainability:

• Be secure with our pension plan;

• Feel engaged and join our participation plan;

• Keep on learning with your personal education possibilities and budget;

• Be happy and fit by using our healthy cafeteria, our free on-premises fitness where you can participate in CrossFit, Pilates, and Spinning classes or play table tennis or table football.

Our values
Priva's mission is to create an optimal environment where people can work, grow and develop. We offer worldwide solutions for horticulture and building automation. Our ambition is to be known as the leading technology and service provider for sustainable urban deltas. We are proud that our solutions result in lower consumption of natural resources and contribute to some of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Our culture is built around our core values; sustainable, innovation, make it happen, and human. In our latest employment survey, our colleagues mainly described our culture as: open, ambitious, innovative, friendly, committed, informal, flexible, and down to earth. We aim to be a dynamic, fast-paced, flat and informal organization, where our colleagues have the space to grow and develop.

We believe that in order to be successful, it is important to include people with different perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures. Every day, we continue to build our open culture with people who are driven to turn our vision into reality, regardless of who they love, where they are from, or what they believe in. We encourage and celebrate people to voice their opinions and be their authentic selves.

Apply
Does this make you smile, and do you see yourself as our new Test Lead? Apply below or contact us for more information. We’ll get back to you within two weeks, we are keen to get to know you!