Product Manager Quality Engineering

Rabobank; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 56,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

8% holiday allowance

Employee Benefit Budget 10%

Development budget EUR 1,400 per year

Hybrid working

Job summary

Rabobank seeks a Product Manager for Quality Engineering within Tech4Dev to define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for enterprise quality capabilities. You will connect Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps and Leadership to deliver measurable outcomes and adoption.

Focus areas include Performance Engineering, contract testing and quality governance, with an emphasis on security, compliance and productive delivery across stacks.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Quality Engineering.
• Experience managing strategic technology capabilities, product roadmaps and adoption in services in enterprise environments.
• Strong strategic and systems thinking, data-driven decision-making, communication and storytelling skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, build communities and drive organisational change.
• Knowledge of performance engineering, observability, reliability, contract and API testing, traceability, test automation or test governance.
• Experience with JMeter, Grafana, LoadRunner, OpenTelemetry, SmartBear PactFlow, KONG or Azure Test Plans is an advantage.
• Understanding of emerging technology opportunities, including AI enablement, is an advantage.
• Affinity for GenAI-driven developer tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Establish a clear capability strategy, product vision and roadmap with adoption targets and metrics.
• Improve engineering productivity, quality reporting, compliance coverage and traceability.
• Advance performance-risk detection, observability adoption and reliability practices.
• Drive adoption of capabilities and ensure alignment across departments.

Skills

Experience in Product Management

Engineering Leadership

Quality Engineering

Strategic capability management

Stakeholder influence

Performance engineering

Test automation

AI enablement

Tools

JMeter

Grafana

LoadRunner

OpenTelemetry

SmartBear PactFlow

KONG

Azure Test Plans

Job description

• Salary: Gross monthly salary between EUR 5,030 and EUR 7,183 (scale 09) for a 36-hour work week.
• Extras: a thirteenth month, 8% holiday allowance, and a 10% Employee Benefit Budget.
• Development budget: EUR 1,400 development budget per year for your growth and development.
• Hybrid working: a balance between home and office work (possible for most roles).
• Pension: decide for yourself the amount of your personal contribution.

As Product Manager for Quality Engineering practice within Tech4Dev, you define and execute the vision, strategy, roadmap and adoption of enterprise quality engineering capabilities. You connect Engineering, Product, Architecture, DevOps and Leadership.

The role key domains including Performance Engineering (performance testing, reliability, capacity, and scalability) and Contract Testing & Quality Governance (contract and API testing, integration testing, traceability, test automation, governance, and modern quality engineering practices), driving consistent standards and high-quality delivery across all technology stacks.

You manage these capabilities as products and services, focusing on measurable outcomes, value realisation and adoption. You combine strategic thinking with hands-on stakeholder engagement to ensure our scanning products continuously evolve to support engineering productivity while meeting strict security and compliance expectations.

Examples for practices

• Defines and executes the long-term capability vision, strategy, and Product roadmap
• Translates strategy into prioritised outcomes, balancing short-term delivery with long-term capability growth
• Establishes clear capability maturity targets

2. Capability Management

• Define and Create Capability’s and assess maturity of the capabilities inc. measure adoption of enterprise Quality Engineering capabilities
• Manages engineering capabilities throughout their lifecycle
• Defines success metrics and adoption targets, measures business outcomes, and continuously improves capability effectiveness

3. Influence Across Departments

• Aligns stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Architecture, Security, Operations, and Leadership
• Drives strategic decisions, builds consensus, and enables adoption through effective communication and engagement

4. Coaches Others and Drives Product Culture

• Promotes product thinking and capability ownership across teams
• Drives adoption, supports capability development, and fosters communities of practice

5. Thinks Entrepreneurially

• Manages capabilities as products and services
• Drives innovation, continuous improvement, and AI-enabled opportunities while balancing value, risk, cost, and adoption

Facts & figures

• 36 or 40 hours per week
• 9.5 million customers worldwide

Top 3 responsibilites

• Establish a clear capability strategy, product vision and roadmap with agreed adoption targets, KPIs and engineering metrics
• Improve engineering productivity, quality reporting, compliance coverage and traceability across the relevant capabilities
• Advance earlier performance-risk detection, observability adoption, reliability practices and contract-testing coverage

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. It is precisely by combining people's differences that we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you add to our team of Tech4Dev.

Work on yourself and the world around you at the same time

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: ‘At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you at the same time. You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment, and a healthy balance between work and home. You can work on banking services for our private and business customers, as well as societal issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger through people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in one another. We seek diversity in areas such as knowledge, skills, and experience, but also in gender, background, and culture. Across every department, we strive for variety and the freedom to be yourself – whoever you are. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about

• At least 7 years of experience in Product Management, Engineering Leadership, Quality Engineering
• Experience managing strategic technology capabilities, product roadmaps and adoption in services in enterprise environments
• Strong strategic and systems thinking, data-driven decision-making, communication and storytelling skills
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, facilitate workshops, build communities and drive organisational change
• Knowledge of performance engineering, observability, reliability, contract and API testing, traceability, test automation or test governance
• Experience with JMeter, Grafana, LoadRunner, OpenTelemetry, SmartBear PactFlow, KONG or Azure Test Plans is an advantage
• Understanding of emerging technology opportunities, including AI enablement, is an advantage
• Affinity for GenAI-driven developer tooling and automation

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.