Test Lead Loans and Agency Services

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

Benefits offered by this job

Thirteenth month

Holiday allowance 8%

Employee Benefit Budget 10%

Development budget per year

Hybrid working

Pension

Job summary

Rabobank is seeking a Test Lead to drive quality assurance across Loans, Agency & Fees. The role focuses on designing test plans, mentoring testers in a global DevOps team, and ensuring robust testing across a complex backend landscape for wholesale banking clients.

You will partner with DevOps and product owners in sprints, influence test strategy, and oversee end-to-end validation, API checks, and data integrity across dozens of integrated applications.

Qualifications

• 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.
• You must be located in the Netherlands, relocation is not possible for this role.

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.

Skills

Quality Assurance mentorship

Team leadership

Test planning

Reporting

Manual testing

Context-driven testing

Exploratory testing

Risk-based testing

System integration

API testing

SQL

ISTQB

TMap

Agile/Scrum

Results oriented

Customer focus

Netherlands resident

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.

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.

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.

• 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).
• You must be located in the Netherlands, re-location is not possible for this role.