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Test Lead Loans and Agency Services

Rabobank

Utrecht
Full-time
5-10 years experience
Hybrid

€5,030 - €7,183 per month

Key Skills

Quality assurance
Test leadership
Test planning
Manual testing
Exploratory testing
Risk-based testing
System integration
API testing
SQL
Agile
Scrum
DevOps
Mentorship
Root cause analysis
Test methodologies
Data flows

Job Description

This is what we offer you

Gross monthly salary between € 5.030 and € 7.183 (scale 09).
  • Thirteenth month's salary and 8% holiday allowance

  • 10% Employee Benefit Budget

  • EUR 1,400 development budget per year

  • Hybrid working: balance between home and office work (possible for most roles)

  • A pension, for which you can set the maximum amount of your personal contribution

View all our benefits.

Job Title

Test Lead Loans and Agency Services

Job Description

CORE is the Core Banking platform for Corporate Banking Services for regional offices worldwide. Your testing expertise helps driving and safeguarding the quality of the Foundations Area services.


You & your role

Drive quality assurance across the Loans, Agency & Fees team by designing and executing test plans, analysing results, and collaborating on continuous improvement initiatives as a Test Lead. You ensure robust testing across a complex backend landscape, collaborate with cross-functional teams. As test lead you mentor and work closely with testers in an international DevOps team to deliver high-quality services to our end users to enable servicing our Rabobank’s wholesale clients.


Examples from practice

  • Guiding and monitoring the testers of the team on test methodologies and best practices.
  • Testing across dozens of integrated applications, ensuring smooth data flows between systems.
  • Conducting thorough system testing to ensure optimal performance and reliability and/or cross-functional integration testing of end-to-end flow.
  • Validating backend processes via APIs and SQL queries.

Facts & figures

  • 36-40 hours per week in hybrid mode.
  • Over30  connected applications rely on your testing expertise.
  • More than 49,000 Rabobank colleagues around the world.

Top 3 responsibilities

  • Ensure quality is embedded in every step of the DevOps way of working, through test expertise and methodology, manual testing and validations, effective test plan design and reporting, and conducting root cause analysis and follow up of bugs.
  • Collaborate closely with the DevOps team and product owner by actively participating in sprints, solution reviews and advise on test approach.
  • Identify and communicate risks and improvements by acting as a quality ambassador and challenging technical decisions to drive continuous improvement.

As a Test Lead, your contribution will enable maintaining and building the foundations of the CORE application.


Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our Loans, Agency & Fees team.


The 25 colleagues in the Loans, Agency & Fees team help maintain and develop the foundations of the core banking platform for Corporate Banking Services. Collaboration is our way of working, as one technical team within Rabobank. You work with testers, developers and the product owner in an international development and operations environment.


Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we want to invest in you and work together to create a better world. This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment and a good work-life balance. You can also work on banking matters for our personal and business clients, as well as on social issues such as the food and energy transitions.


Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we are working towards a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. We do this step by step, paying attention to what is going well and to the areas where we can continue to improve. By being open to different perspectives, we are creating an environment where colleagues feel heard. That helps us build an organisation where people enjoy working and where we truly understand and serve our customers.


You & your talent

  • Proven experience with Quality Assurance mentorship and leading a team
  • Comprehensive communication verbally and in writing, in test plan designs and reporting
  • Manual testing
  • Proven experience with context-driven, exploratory, concurrent and risk-based testing.
  • Proficiency in system integration, web services, API testing, SQL.
  • Familiarity with structured test methods (e.g. ISTQB, TMap)
  • Worked in Agile/Scrum environments.
  • Striving for results (Results driven).
  • Focus on the customer (Customer focused).
  • Stimulating collaboration (Collaborating).
  • You must be located in the Netherlands, re-location is not possible for this role. 

You & the application process

You can apply to the Test Lead vacancy at Rabobank at least until October 11th (the closing date may be extended until we find the right candidate).


  • Applications via e-mail cannot be accepted, only through our career channels.
  • For substantive questions about this role: Henk Jan Verstege, Tech Lead, via [email protected]
  • Questions about working at Rabobank and the procedure? Lisa Boschma, recruiter, via [email protected] #LI-LB 
  • If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via text message and email to schedule the interviews.
  • You can find answers to frequently asked questions here.
  • Assessments can be part of the application process. A reliability assessment is part of the procedure.
  • We respect your privacy.

Core Responsibilities

The Test Lead will drive quality assurance across the Loans, Agency & Fees team by designing test plans and executing manual and automated validations. They will mentor team members and collaborate with cross-functional DevOps teams to ensure robust performance and reliability of the core banking platform.

Requirements

Candidates must have proven experience in quality assurance leadership, manual testing, and working within Agile/Scrum environments. Proficiency in API testing, SQL, and structured test methodologies like ISTQB or TMap is required, along with the ability to work in the Netherlands.

Benefits

  • Thirteenth month salary
  • Holiday allowance
  • Employee benefit budget
  • Development budget
  • Hybrid working
  • Pension scheme

About Rabobank

Industry: Banking

Company size: 10,001+ employees

Rabobank is a cooperative bank with a mission. Our goal: to help customers realize their ambitions. We serve about 10 million customers in 47 countries. As an international financial institution, we work on the well-being and prosperity of millions of people. In the Netherlands, we serve individual and business customers. Globally, we focus on the food and agriculture sectors. For big or small challenges, in every area, people join forces in search of solutions. Rabobank has been doing this for 125 years, and we will continue to grow a better world together. As an employer, we support the growth of colleagues every day. At Rabobank, you can work on your own development & shape the world around you. This is reflected in your own development budget, our hybrid work environment, and a good balance between your work and home life. You can work on banking matters for our individual and business customers, as well as on societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

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