Our client is a prestigious European Institution developing a leading smart middleware that will enable cloud-to-edge federations and support all major data initiatives, such as common European data spaces. Our client is looking for a Test Manager to take charge of the priorities of the open source project. If this resonates with you, then we have the right challenge for you! Contract type: Freelancer agreement, with an initial contract duration, with the possibility for renewal Workplace type: 3 days of on-site office presence at their office in Brussels and 2 days of teleworking. Key Responsibilities: • Work within the agile process and take decisions regarding priority, business value, and functionality for all the work done by the agile development team. • Typically supervise several business analysts. • Manage the contractors in charge of the development of Simpl, and the separate contractor in charge of quality assessment. • Oversee the development of Simpl-open. This implies the steering, through daily contacts, of the contractor on matters related to requirements elicitation, architecture development, code testing. • Possess an in-depth knowledge of goals and desired objectives of the project. • Interact and validate requirements with the business. • Propose solutions by combining IT tools and business process refactoring or improvements based on an in-depth understanding of a specific business domain. • Be involved in the decision-making process related to user stories scheduling into sprints. • Review deliverable and demonstrable product version/software functionalities after every sprint. • Organize live demonstration of the product at the end of the sprint. • Evaluate and facilitate progress reporting. • Assist with internal and external communication by improving of transparency and dissemination of information. • Evaluate prioritization and resolution of defects/bugs. • Interact with business analysts, customer, users, project leaders and the developers. Specific knowledge, skills, and expertise: • Master’s degree combined with relevant IT professional experience of at least 10 years. • Multi-annual experience with large, enterprise-level multi-user Information Systems. • Multi-annual experience in Agile as well as agile toolbox (i.e., JIRA, Confluence, Big Picture, Gliffy, Balsamiq, etc.). • Excellent Knowledge of Application Management Lifecycle. • Good Knowledge of enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF, COBIT, Zachman, and actual experience developing and building models based on such framework. • Excellent leadership, conciliation, and negotiation skills. • The ability to work in a proactive and independent manner, with a focus on priorities, communication, and decision-making capacities.