Role: DevOps Engineer - Azure Cloud Tester

Location: Utrecht, Netherlands

Duration: 6-12 Months

Note: No Sponership Provided

JD:

Top 3 responsibilities:

• You bring your wide experience and knowledge to the team and contribute to increase the maturity of the team
• As a member of the squad you are responsible for testing all features as agreed up during the panning of a sprint
• As a member of the squad you are responsible for maintaining the application(s) the squad is responsible, keep it running, improve it, keep it compliant and secure.

You recognize yourself in the description below:

• Strong communication, critical thinking, responsibility-taking and decisiveness;
• Able to identify performance and technical improvements while ensuring documentation and automation standards are met;
• An active collaborator who can brainstorm, debate, and steer solutions with the squad and stakeholders.
• Capable and willing to teach, coach, and share knowledge.
• Proactive in distributed team environments.
• Able to support the squad’s delivery triangle and solve complex impediments creatively.
• A “helicopter view” thinker who oversees all system aspects within and beyond the squad
• Able to help shape quality standards in collaboration with the testers’ community
• Adaptive to change; curious, analytical, proactive, determined, results‑driven, and unafraid to voice your opinion.

Experience:

• 5–7 years’ testing experience in complex, distributed system environments;
• Background or hands-on experience in Banking / Credit Risk systems;
• Experience with test coordination, including chain (E2E) tests, integration tests, and UAT preparation/support.

Azure & Cloud:

• Proven experience testing Azure-based applications: Azure Functions, App Services, Service Bus, and API integrations.

Test Automation & Practices:

• Strong experience with SpecFlow / ReqNroll / C# and BDD/Gherkin for back‑end test automation
• Experience across all levels of manual and automated testing: Smoke, System, Regression, Sanity, Performance, Integration, Acceptance, Chain;
• Proficiency in both white-box and black-box testing;
• Experience with API testing (e.g., Postman or similar) and microservices testing;
• Contract-based testing experience
• Experience creating stubs, drivers, and test data for subsystem testing;
• Experience working with TDD and BDD methodologies.

Messaging & Data:

• Practical experience with Kafka (message validation, producer/consumer testing, schema checks)
• Strong proficiency with SQL Server for test data verification and validation.

DevOps & Tooling:

• Hands-on experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines (build, test, deployment automation)
• Experience using Azure DevOps Test Plans for managing and executing structured test cases;
• Experience working with Git and documentation in Confluence.

Risk, Controls & Compliance:

• Practitioner-level knowledge of IT risks and controls.
• Experience with Audit, Compliance, and Operational Risk processes.

Interpersonal Skills:

• Perform as an effective member of the chapter
• Mediate between end‑users and IT teams. Provide technical guidance and support
• Influence and motivate colleagues appropriately.

Customer Focus:

• Engage customers to identify needs, respond effectively, and act from their perspective. Always focus on value creation and service improvement.

Soft Skills:

• Organizational skills: Initiative, self‑motivation, Strong customer focus;
• Excellent communication skills — both spoken and written
• A strong desire for personal growth is essential.

Inspire and Develop:

• Be open to feedback and continuous learning;
• Help individuals and the team grow
• Promote innovation, transparency, employability and flexibility;
• Intellectual Curiosity: Ability to question business partners across functional areas with a critical but constructive mindset.