Senior QA Engineer

Amsterdam - As a Senior QA Engineer within Publishing Services, you will take full ownership of quality within one of our product domains and help improve testing and release processes across the team. We are looking for a hands-on QA Engineer with a strong sense of ownership and excellent communication skills. Publishing Services builds shared products for DPG Media brands such as AD, de Volkskrant, HLN, NU.nl, Libelle and Flair. Our domains include Audio, Video, Games, Search and Recommendations.

What will you do?

You’ll take full ownership of our end-to-end testing strategy and release readiness, ensuring our mobile and web applications remain reliable, scalable, and top-tier.

• Strategy & Release Ownership: Own the domain QA process and test strategy from planning through release, coordinating release readiness, risk assessments, go/no-go decisions, and post-release validation.

• Hands-On & Automated Testing: Perform manual, regression, integration, and release testing for mobile native apps and web, while building and maintaining automated test suites using Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest.

• Proactive Risk & Issue Management: Proactively identify quality risks, drive process improvements, and follow issues through to resolution.

• Stakeholder Collaboration & Advocacy: Work closely with developers, product owners, UX specialists, and QA engineers, speaking up when quality is at risk and clearly communicating status, risks, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What makes you the ideal candidate?

You have at least five years of QA experience, a proactive ownership mindset, and a deep technical background in frameworks like Appium, Espresso, and XCUITest.

• A strong ownership mindset to independently drive quality topics, organize QA activities, improve processes, and coordinate releases smoothly.

• Excellent communication skills to effectively influence stakeholders, clarify risks, and align the team on priorities.

• Broad testing expertise spanning manual and automated practices across mobile, web, and APIs, including building maintainable end-to-end, integration, and regression test suites.

• Hands-on tech stack proficiency with Appium, TypeScript, Espresso, XCUITest, and BrowserStack.

• Practical CI/CD experience, ideally using GitHub Actions.

Nice to have

• You have experience with media products, content management systems or publishing workflows.

• Known with contract or API testing.

• Hands-on expertise with observability, performance, accessibility or security.

• A strong background working in platform engineering, SDK development, or shared-services environments.

What we offer you

With us, you’ll get an inspiring work environment that’s constantly evolving. Colleagues who think in terms of possibilities, see the glass as half full, and we give you the chance to develop yourself every day. We do this, among other things, through our DPG Campus / DPG Academy. This gives you every opportunity to bring out the best in yourself and be a true media maker!

? A salary that matches your work experience ? A 36-hour / 38-hour workweek (depending on contract type) ? 8% holiday pay and 4% personal choice budget ? Annual profit sharing based on DPG Media’s performance ? Opportunities for development, both on the job and online through our DPG Academy ? Opportunity to customize your own cultural holidays! ? A fantastic new office in Amsterdam (Mediavaert). From (spontaneous) drinks to team outings and our legendary staff party, you’ll feel at home right away!"

More reasons to want to work at DPG Media At DPG Media, we work for more than 90 strong news brands, magazines, TV shows, radio stations, and online services such as Qmusic, NU.nl, Tweakers, Libelle, VTM, and more. We reach over 90% of the Dutch population and 8 out of 10 Flemings every month. We offer you a professional work environment where we highly value freedom. We give you all the space to work on your future by offering workshops and training. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, a learner, and a team player with us, and most importantly, feel free to be yourself. At DPG Media, everyone is welcome. So, apply, regardless of your background. Over 5,500 smart colleagues are eager to welcome you into a team, whether it’s a project team, a pub quiz team, or a sports team.

Applying, and then? Are you ready to get started? Apply now! You’ll receive a response to your application within 10 working days, letting you know whether you’re in the first selection round. If you are, we’ll contact you by phone to schedule an appointment at our office in Amsterdam. Want to know more? Contact leonie.lugtenberg@dpgmedia.nl