Software Testing Chapter Lead in Amsterdam

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Software Testing Chapter Lead / Engineering Manager

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In Payment and Settlement Services (PSS), we are looking for a hands-on Test Chapter Lead/Engineering Manager for Testing chapter in the SEPA Payment Processing area. In this department, we have built an in-house SEPA Payment processing engine based on Java and Tibco technology stack, processing more than 3 billion transactions every year, both real-time and through batch processing. We are on our way to centralise this platform for processing of Instant Payment across European counties and building SEPA Direct Debit capability within this payment engine.

Please note that this is not a Test Manager role, but a people management role with hands-on responsibilities as a test engineer. You are a hands-on Expert Backend Test Engineer, and this will be your role in the squad for 60% of your time. The remaining 40% you will be managing your team, building up expertise in your chapter and developing your chapter members.

The engineering team that you will be responsible for and part of, are located in the Netherlands, India and Philippines. Together with the other chapter leads you will look for the best ways to deliver fast and high quality software while maintain the stability of existing system. You’re continuously looking for improvements in our way of working, while ensuring a safe and compliant bank.

You are an ideal candidate:

As an IT Chapter Lead you are a senior engineer while having excellent people management capabilities and you are seen by colleagues as a go-to person. You have not only a strong drive to constantly keep your own expertise up to speed, but also want to make an active contribution to the development and advancement of the people in your chapter and your field.

You are an energetic Chapter Lead with expertise in engineering, people management and affinity with run and maintenance of critical applications. The people in your chapter are equally ambitious as you, and you like to transfer your expertise to them and feel satisfaction from coaching (both professionally as personally) less senior chapter members. You are ambitious with what you and your Chapter want to achieve. You stimulate your Chapter members towards continuous improvement of their skills. You speak up and challenge the status quo.

You have:

• Strong people management and coaching skills
• You have at least 7 years’ experience in testing of back-end systems, consisting of multiple services/APIs
• You have at least 5 years’ experience in testing with Cucumber/Java
• Clear understanding of testing technologies and developments. We see IT Chapter Leads as senior engineers who carve the path of ING Bank’s transformation
• You have the ability to manage the day-to-day testing activities next to your lead function
• Understand both the technical parts of the application chain and the customer point of view 
• Experience with cross cultural and cross time zone collaboration 
• Experience in Agile / Scrum / DevO/ps methodologies
• You are an Orange Code role model:
  • You are always a step ahead
  • You take it on and make it happen
  • You help other be successful

Desirable experiences: 

• Working with technologies like Java, AzureDevOps, Docker, Cassandra, Oracle, JMS, Kafka and Tibco
• Parasoft SOAtest
• Banking industry experience and knowledge of ISO20022, Swift and SEPA

Your benefits

A job from 36 to 40 hours and a unique offer that fits in with the times of today. We take into account your home situation and your ambitions and help you to balance work and private life. Discover yourself our employment 

To give you an idea, we will tell you about the benefits of working at ING:

• A job from 36 to 40 hours that fits your schedule to balance work and private life
• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• Travel reimbursement
• 24 vacation days with 36-hour work week (or 27 days with 40)
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

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