Chapter Lead Testing QA Wealth

Are you a testing and/or quality assurance expert and enthusiastic person who inspires others to create innovative solutions? Then we need your help, in making ABN AMRO a personal bank in a digital age!

One of our strategic goals is to become data-driven, so we can get to know our clients even more and serve them in a better way. As a Chapter Lead, you contribute to this goals by focussing on innovation within your department. You stay up-to-date on the latest developments and you mentor your team members in becoming technical experts. How are you going to shape innovation, advancements and projects within your department?

Besides innovation, you are also going to enhance IT craftmanship of your Chapter members. Our employees get the freedom to grow and experiment. You support and guide them, so they can become the technical experts that contribute to a future-proof bank. When and where you and your team do you work, that is up to you! We work hybrid, which means you and your team can flexibly decide where and when you can work most comfortable and effectively.

All-in-all, working at ABN AMRO means that you contribute to projects that matter and impact millions of customers! Are you up for the challenge?

Please apply and join us within I&T – Wealth.

As Chapter Lead, you will combine working as an IT Engineer, with your role as Lead. About 60% of the time you will work in your own block (DevOps team) on refining, analysing, designing, developing/coding, testing, maintaining and realizing good quality and future proof IT solutions. The rest of the time you will manage your team (8-10 IT Engineers). This includes:

• Educating yourself and others with the right technical capabilities and the latest innovations.
• Mentoring your Chapter members on technical craftsmanship.
• Actively participating in knowledge gaining and sharing by joining triangles, circles, communities and events. Furthermore, focus on proper knowledge dissemination across the teams, pushing the limits of our technology and focussing on holistic solutions.
• Proper alignment with stakeholders. For example, informing leadership on the alignment you have with Architects on the technological landscape and lifecycle. Furthermore you ensure a current stack and room for innovation on the backlog by discussing this with the Product Owners.
• Working in a DevOps environment and advocating the Agile and CICD processes.
• On a strategical level you mentor your team, evaluate technical assessments, do interviews and ensure that new employees are properly onboarded.
• Take care of the HR processes to facilitate all aspects relating to the influx, development, performance and outflux of employees.
• Create and foster a healthy working environment and a holistic culture for your Chapter.

Grid Wealth is responsible for a wide variety of products and services to our Retail and Private Banking customers. We serve clients in Investments, pensions, and fiscal saving clients. We help them to oversee their finances, make sound financial decisions and grow their Wealth for comfortable financial future. In the grids colleagues from both business and IT work together in multidisciplinary teams and share responsibility for delivering the roadmap Wealth solutions in the Netherlands. Within the grid we develop and maintain a variety of applications using many different technologies and innovative (IT)concepts!

As chapter lead, you will work in a fast paced and accessible environment. We love to share knowledge and to challenge each other, for example by sharing our expertise in our blog, during the events of our developer community and by organising hackathons.

You feel at home in a technical environment and are always up to date on the latest technologies. At the same time, you are people minded and a tactful inspirator. You inspire others by setting right example and you inspire others to reach a continuous improvement mindset and achieve the highest possible quality. Furthermore, you constantly look to push the boundaries of new possibilities and work smart through striving for automation.

Do you think you‘re a fit? Check your profile:

• Proven expertise in testing and automated testing - with a deep knowledge of Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools
• +5 years experience as DevOps or Test/QA engineer
• Curious for technology and IT solutions - with a strong passtion for an automation first Test approach with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk.
• Architectural understanding, ability to learn new technical concepts fast
• Ability to coach, motivate and inspire others
• You have an entrepreneurial mind-set
• You know all about DevOps and Agile working
• Experience leading a small to a medium size team including line management, coaching & mentoring is a bonus

You are given every opportunity and independence to demonstrate your professional expertise in a no-nonsense environment and to further develop yourself. We attach great value to personal development and thereby offer you many training and development opportunities. In addition:

• Attractive salary Hay 10 or 11 (Depending on your experience).
• Attractive Pension scheme.
• Benefit budget, so you can decide yourself if you want extra holiday allowances, a lease bike or that you want the budget paid out.
• Personal development budget.
• Banking for better days. These are days you can use for your personal development or on which you can contribute to society.

Are you interested? Then respond to this vacancy. For more information, you can reach out to Shabi Shafei (IT Lead Wealth)

We would like to get to know you!

The success of our organisation depends on the quality of our people and the ideas that they have. Truly surprising insights and innovative solutions for our clients result from an interplay of cultures, knowledge and experience. Diversity is therefore extremely important to our organisation. To ensure that everyone at ABN AMRO can develop their talents, we encourage an inclusive culture in which all colleagues feel engaged and appreciated.

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