IT tester

IT Tester | Santander Consumer Finance SA

Your role and the team 

As an IT Tester, you play a crucial role in the quality and reliability of our IT systems. You are responsible for testing new and existing software solutions and ensuring that they meet the set requirements. Together with a team of developers, product owners and other testers, you work on innovative projects and contribute to a smoothly running IT environment.

You will work in a dynamic, demanding and interesting environment. Our IT department is responsible for building and managing all the systems we work with at Santander.

You are

  • Accurate and analytical, with an eye for detail.
  • Proactive and communicatively strong, you dare to ask critical questions.
  • A team player who enjoys working together but also functions well independently.
  • Driven to continuously improve and optimize processes.

Your duties and responsibilities in short

  • Perform functional and regression testing on new and existing applications.
  • Drafting test plans, test cases and test scenarios.
  • Identify, analyze and report bugs and areas for improvement.
  • Collaborate with development teams to ensure software quality.
  • Automate testing where possible and advise on testing strategies.
  • Creating logs to document test phases and defects.
  • Report bugs and defects to development teams.
  • Perform post-release/post-implementation testing

You have

  • A completed MBO or college education in IT or a similar field.
  • Good knowledge of the Dutch and English languages both verbally and in writing
  • Good command of Word, Excel and PowerPoint
  • Practical knowledge of HTML, JSON, XML and Java
  • Knowledge of testing strategies and automation

We offer 

  • A personalized induction program
  • A unique international working environment where you will work with different nationalities both internally and externally
  • A laptop
  • In addition to a competitive salary, you can count on a 13th month, annual performance bonus of up to 10% of your annual salary, 27 days of leave and a collective pension plan with 5% own contribution.
  • Travel allowance EUR 0.23 per km with a maximum of 30 km one way or reimbursement of the entire journey by using an NS Business Card
  • We encourage development and growth and offer various training opportunities.
  • The possibility to work partly from home with a home office allowance (€3,35) for the days you work from home.

About us

We are
Santander Consumer Finance. We have been active in the consumer finance market in the Netherlands since 1985 (car financing, personal loans and stock financing). In the Netherlands, we serve our customers from our office in Utrecht, and since 1992 also in Belgium from our office in Merelbeke (near Ghent). The leasing company Santander Leasing is also part of Santander (in the Netherlands with offices in Den Bosch, and in Belgium from Merelbeke). Our Benelux team consists of approximately 350 colleagues. Together, we are part of the Santander Group, one of the largest financial institutions in the world.

What makes Santander Santander?
We work with many different nationalities. Showing initiative is appreciated by us, just like humor. We stimulate creativity and spar with each other about new ideas. We have an open corporate culture with an informal working atmosphere.

What sets us apart:

  • We have an open-plan office with several bigger or smaller meeting rooms and focus rooms if you have the need for more privacy and focus.
  • We know how important mobile work is. Where it can be reconciled with the job, employees can work from home two or three days a week and are still connected to colleagues and customers via MS Teams.
  • For 7 years, we have been receiving the Top Employer Netherlands, Belgium and  Europe award.
  • The health and wellbeing of our professionals are a priority and a fundamental pillar of Santander's value proposition, which is communicated internally and globally under the name Behealthy.
    At Santander, we believe that the wellbeing of our employees is key to creating a positive, dynamic and innovative work environment. When people feel good, they have greater energy, creativity, and commitment, thus driving the success of the entire organization. In times of change and great challenges to achieve together, it is even more important to adopt healthy habits that help us prevent diseases and maintain physical and mental balance.
  • Our employees can get a sports subscription and Bicycle plan via our FiscFree offer.
  • Our Evermood programme offers a platform free of charge for employees about various matters – from support in the form of tips on financial problems to advice on childcare issues and help with conflict resolution at work.

Enthusiastic?

Join the team! This is your chance to use your talent in a dynamic, international organization. Apply via this link:https://santander.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SantanderCareers/job/Utrecht/IT-Tester_Req1469972-1

* Screening is part of the application process. We check, based on the screening procedures in place within Santander, whether new employees are sufficiently reliable to perform work at Santander.

* We have a strong risk culture and expect all our professionals, regardless of their position, to have a proactive and responsible attitude towards risk management.

Acquisition in response to this vacancy is not desired.