Functional Tester (Hybrid, Brussels)

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Functional Tester to join our Testing Competence Centre in Brussels on a hybrid basis. The consultant will support the IMAJINES project by ensuring that all functional qualification activities meet the Centre's quality standards.

Key responsibilities

• Analyse functional and non‑functional requirements to define relevant test scenarios.
• Participate in specification reviews, flagging ambiguities and inconsistencies.
• Design, write and maintain detailed test cases.
• Prepare test campaigns, create required test data, and execute functional, regression and exploratory tests.
• Document anomalies, assess their criticality, and track resolution with development, business and functional teams.
• Collaborate with business representatives for functional validation and produce execution, summary and test reports.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing processes, methods and tools, and share QA best practices.

Required profile

• Minimum seven years of experience in manual functional testing on complex IT projects.
• Strong analytical, synthesis and writing skills.
• ISTQB certification preferred.
• Highly organised, proactive, autonomous and able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams.
• Curious about business processes and committed to quality.

Required skills

• Manual functional testing, exploratory testing and regression techniques.
• Understanding of the test lifecycle and Agile (Scrum/Kanban) environments.
• Knowledge of test environments, CI/CD pipelines, GitLab and Docker.
• Ability to write simple SQL queries for test data preparation.
• Familiarity with XQual (test management), Mantis (anomaly management) and Agilitest (test automation).