IT Engineer II (Back-End (General))

Details

As a QA Engineer within an interdisciplinary DevOps team, you will help realize ABN AMRO’s strategy of being a personal bank in the digital age. You will be responsible for the quality, stability, and reliability of backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the test strategy for backend services and APIs.
• Design, develop, and maintain API and integration test frameworks.
• Validate service-to-service integrations and data flows.
• Ensure data integrity, contract validation, and error handling.
• Ensure quality gates are met in CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform manual exploratory testing when required.
• Identify, report, and track defects with clear root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate with developers, product owners, and DevOps teams.
• Advocate for shift-left testing, quality best practices, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to QA capability building.

Working Environment

The Daily Banking department facilitates customers in their daily banking services, including payments, savings, credits, and insurance. The department is responsible for reliable product and contract administration and provides business customers with liquidity services such as cash pooling.

The Daily Banking IT team works at the forefront of innovation while safeguarding the stability of the bank’s core systems. Multidisciplinary teams work according to DevOps principles and manage the complete IT development chain, enabling fast time-to-market with high autonomy while maintaining robust day-to-day services.

The IT landscape includes home-built applications, Azure Cloud, Mainframe Platform, RESTful and SOAP web services, Vue.js applications, and integrations with SaaS solutions.

Requirements

Must Have

• At least 5 years of overall QA experience, including at least 3 years of strong hands-on API test automation.
• Strong experience with automation tools such as Rest Assured and Karate.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter and NeoLoad.
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments and DevOps ways of working.
• Strong proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI.
• Hands-on experience with test case management tools such as Azure Test Plans.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.

Nice to Have

• Experience working in fintech or regulated environments.
• Experience with contract-based testing, such as Pact or Specmatic, to validate API agreements between services.
• Good understanding of web application testing.
• Experience with test data management and environment coordination.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to learn quickly and adapt to new tools and domains.
• Strong communication, coordination, and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, ownership-driven, and solution-oriented mindset.

Benefits

• Gross monthly salary based on a 36-hour work week, including holiday allowance and a flexible benefit budget.
• Excellent pension scheme.
• Flexible working, with working from home possible in consultation with the team and depending on the role.
• Ergonomic home office setup.
• Five weeks of vacation per year, supplemented by two mandatory days off, with the option to purchase up to four additional weeks annually.
• Five additional “Banking for better days” leave days for personal development or volunteer work.
• Development budget of €1,000 per year, which can accumulate up to €3,000.
• Annual public transport pass providing free public transportation throughout the Netherlands for business and private use.

The vacancy is covered by ABN AMRO’s Collective Labour Agreement. The deadline to apply is 9 November.