Senior Test Automation Engineer

At Lely, software plays a crucial role in the performance, reliability, and safety of our robotic and farm management solutions. Every day, our products help dairy farmers around the world work more efficiently while improving animal welfare and supporting sustainable food production. As a Senior Test Automation Engineer, you help shape the quality engineering and test automation strategy for Horizon, Lely's farm management platform. You provide technical direction, drive improvements across multiple teams, and help elevate the maturity of our testing practices. Your focus goes beyond building and maintaining automated tests; you create the conditions that enable teams to deliver high-quality software with confidence. You take ownership of strategic quality initiatives, identify opportunities for improvement, and help teams make informed decisions based on objective quality data. You play a leading role in advancing our automation approach across multiple test levels, including component, API, and end-to-end testing. This includes further developing our component testing capabilities, designing, implementing, and maintaining the underlying test infrastructure, such as CI/CD test pipelines, test execution environments, and CI/CD runners. You drive continuous improvements to the test platform, ensuring fast, reliable feedback throughout the software delivery lifecycle and enabling teams to deliver high-quality software with confidence. As a senior member of the Test Automation Chapter, you help define standards, share best practices, coach fellow engineers, and contribute to the long-term direction of test automation within Digital Farming. Many improvements extend beyond a single development team, requiring you to build alignment and collaborate effectively with stakeholders and engineering teams in the Netherlands, Turkey and Portugal. Alongside these chapter-wide responsibilities, you are also part of a Scrum team, where you contribute hands-on to the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated tests and quality practices within Horizon. The work is carried out primarily from our campus in Maassluis. Occasional travel to Turkey is expected to support collaboration and successful implementation of improvements across teams. Your main responsibilities include: Defining and evolving the test automation strategy across component, API, and end-to-end testing. Leading quality improvement initiatives and driving adoption across multiple teams. Providing technical direction and coaching to fellow test automation engineers within the Test Automation Chapter. Taking ownership of the component testing domain, including defining the approach, expanding component test coverage, and integrating it into the CI/CD pipeline. Driving collaboration between testing, software development, architecture, and other technical disciplines across the Netherlands and Turkey. Providing objective insights on product quality, risk, and release…