Are you passionate about testing and quality assurance in a dynamic payments environment? Join our squad and play a crucial role in maintaining and improving our payment engine. As a test engineer, you'll ensure that our application is of high quality in all aspects, including functionality, performance, resilience, and security. Most of our tests will be automated, and test automation will be part of your job. Additionally, as the entire team is responsible for maintenance and operations, we expect you to participate in standby duties.
**This vacancy is open due to maternity leave and is a temporary position until April 11, 2025. The start date is as soon as possible.

• Due to the temporary contract, we kindly ask you to apply only if you are already residing in the Netherlands.

Your role:

• Be part of a multidisciplinary squad responsible for the payment engine's maintenance and operations.
• Specialize in testing, with a focus on automating functional, performance, resilience, and security tests using tools like Cucumber and Karate.
• Collaborate with your squad, product owner, and end-to-end chain squads to refine and plan features, ensuring they integrate seamlessly into the overall system.
• Set up and manage continuous delivery pipelines and apply ITIL processes to enhance the quality of the application.
• Actively contribute to capacity and performance management, ensuring the application performs at a high standard.
• Support the squad in implementing countermeasures to maintain data confidentiality, integrity, and system availability.

About the team: In addition to your squad, you'll be part of a test engineering chapter that includes test engineers from different squads. This chapter focuses on quality and continuous improvement for our products and processes. You'll have the opportunity to enhance test frameworks, bring in new tools, and improve the CI/CD setup.

What you’ll bring:

• A minimum of 5 years' experience in testing backend systems, with at least 3 years focused on automated testing using Cucumber (Java implementation).
• Proficiency in various testing types (functional, performance, resilience, and security) and hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong quality focus, attention to detail, and ability to work collaboratively with excellent communication skills in English.
• A strong focus on quality and attention to detail.
• Proactive, a team player, and improvement-oriented, consistent with ING’s Orange Code.

It’s a plus if you have:

• Experience working in the banking industry, with knowledge of payment standards like ISO20022, Swift, and SEPA.
• Familiarity with tools like Git Lab, TFS, Azure Dev Ops, Gatling, Kibana, and Prometheus.
• Hands-on experience with technologies such as Cassandra (CQL), Java (Akka, Spring), JMS (EMS/MQ), Kafka, Tibco Business Works, Unix.

What we offer:

• Contract until 12 April 2025.
• 36-hour work week.
• Competitive salary range: €4.500,00 - €6.000,00 gross per month.
• Holiday payments and a 13th month.
• Full pension in accordance with the Dutch temporary labour CLA.
• Hybrid working environment (in-office and remote flexibility).

Interested? Respond today! You can apply until 11 November 13:00