QA Engineer

Alkmaar April 21, 2026 Full Time

Join Our Team as a QA Engineer at Beyond Sports!

If you’re someone who gets energy from improving product quality, enjoys diving into complex digital journeys, and wants to help elevate the reliability of cutting‑edge sports‑tech products, this could be your next step.

What Your Day Will Look Like

As a QA Engineer at Beyond Sports, you’ll play a key role in the quality and stability of our digital sports products. You’ll be involved throughout the development lifecycle and work closely with developers, product owners, and other squads. Your day-to-day responsibilities include:

· Develop and execute automated and manual test cases across full user journeys, integrations, and edge cases.

· Perform manual, exploratory, and integration testing, documenting defects and supporting root‑cause analysis.

· Review and challenge requirements early to ensure solutions are testable, robust, and free of logic gaps.

· Verify data integrity and API compatibility through contract testing and debugging tools.

· Own QA processes within your squad, creating test documentation, contributing to planning and estimation, and driving best practices.

What We Value

At Beyond Sports, we build fast, innovate constantly, and collaborate across disciplines. You’ll fit right in if you:

Are Analytical & Curious - You enjoy dissecting product logic, understanding system behaviour, and finding what others may miss.
Think Like a User and an Engineer - You balance user journeys with technical insight, ensuring both functional and architectural quality.
Communicate Clearly - You can translate technical findings into clear, actionable information for product managers and developers.
Take Ownership - You don’t wait for instruction—you raise flags, create plans, and push for quality at every stage.
Enjoy High‑Pace Tech Environments - You work well independently, but also thrive within a multidisciplinary, collaborative squad.

Tech Stack and Skill Requirements

You don’t need to meet every single requirement—but here’s what we’re ideally looking for:

Required Experience

2 years of experience in a commercial software QA role.
Obtained or working toward ISTQB Foundation certification.
Strong understanding of digital product logic, how features behave, interact, and impact the user experience.
Ability to develop and execute automated test scenarios for web or mobile applications.
Experience with integration testing, ensuring smooth communication between components (e.g., API ↔ database).
Skilled in analysing requirements, identifying logic gaps, and spotting edge cases early.
Proficient in defect diagnosis, reporting, and tracking, with solid knowledge of testing processes and the full QA lifecycle.

Competent With

Automation Tools: Cypress, Appium, or similar frameworks.
API & Contract Testing: Postman and contract testing principles.
Debugging Tools: Charles Proxy, Browser DevTools.
Development Methodologies: Agile (Scrum/Kanban) and/or Waterfall.
Project Tooling: JIRA, Confluence, and basic Git awareness.
Fluent in English (Dutch is a plus).

This role is based on-site at our Alkmaar office (32–40 hours per week). You’ll need to be living in the Netherlands and eligible to work in the EU. No sponsorship is being offered for the moment at Beyond Sports.

We are not offering visa sponsorship at the moment.

Why Level Up Your Career at Beyond Sports

High‑Impact Work: You’ll directly influence the reliability and quality of products used globally in the sports‑tech space.
Continuous Learning: You’ll have access to courses of your choice, modern QA tooling, and opportunities to learn alongside engineering and design teams.
Global Reach: Your work supports international partners, clients, and creative production teams.
The Perks:
- 25 vacation days per year – rest fuels performance.
- Pension program – future you will appreciate it.
- Lunch and beverages – fresh meals from our in‑house chef.
- Company gym card – boost your health and energy.
- Fresh fruit, drinks, and Friday afternoon drinks.
- Bi‑monthly team outings and office games (Cornhole, table tennis, basketball).

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you love improving quality, identifying risks early, and ensuring digital sports products are reliable and smooth for millions of users, we’d love to hear from you.