QA Automation Full Remote colaborare PFA/SRL/CIM

Job description

The mission:
ING is dedicated to providing people with the best digital financial experience when it comes to customer interaction and digitalization of banking services is the key enabler for making this experience personal, intuitive and smart.
Our mission is to find the very best and we guarantee a flawless employee experience, where everyone has the chance to be successful and always be one step ahead.
The Automation squad is both part of PaaS and IaaS with access to key foundation elements for making our goal possible: a stable and versatile automated environment on
the infrastructure side.
Our team’s portfolio is diverse, containing a significant number of projects with a wide span of technologies and platforms like ELK stack, Redis, Zabbix, Ansible or Puppet.
The platforms are built with self-service capabilities for our engineers (developers and DevOps) across our hybrid cloud and as well integration with ING Group endpoints.
Automation embraces infrastructure as code and promotes “everything as a service” concept inside ING technology areas

Your Day to Day

• Get involved in designing, building and maintaining the system
• Automate all parts of the system, from deploying to self-healing mechanisms
• Increase our platform adoption of core automation toolset and services
• Improve our infrastructure, monitoring, tooling and continuous delivery processes
• Research, identify and drive opportunities to improve automation
• Troubleshoot and solve any encountered issues across our technology stack focusing
• on permanent fixes and automation instead of point-fixes
• Support our platform users and consumers
• Document systems designs, business requirements, technical interpretation and
• security guidelines

What you bring to the team

Knowledge and experience:
• Proven experience on a similar role for at least 2-5 years
• Scripting and/or programming experience with one of the following: Python, Bash, Ruby, PowerShell
• Linux OS fundamentals (bonus points for Windows)
• Practical experience with Configuration Management tools: Puppet, Ansible, Chef
• Experience with Big Data (Elasticsearch) and caching solutions (Redis)
• Experience with virtualization, Public or Private Cloud Providers (Azure, VMware)
• Experience with continuous delivery, continuous integration pipelines (Gitlab CI, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with monitoring tools (Zabbix, Grafana, Elastic APM or equivalent tech)
• Basic networking knowledge & troubleshooting tools (operating system, network, storage)
• Basic understanding of networking concepts and internet protocols
• Minimum knowledge of web/application servers
• Experienced in working in a complex environment following Agile methods
• 24×7 mindset and are willing to participate in a stand-by shift, knowing that ING operates a 24×7 business for its customers

Nice to know:

• Experience with software development IDEs
• Everything as code and everything as a service mind set
• Proven experience with containers (Docker, Kubernetes or OpenShift)

Competencies :

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Meticulousness and punctuality
• Willingness to continuously research and improve technical skills
• Resilience to stress and constructive and collaborative
• Willingness to support and coach team members and/or automation platform users
• Strong problem solving and analytical thinking – ability to diagnose issues in a
• timely manner
• Results and delivery orientation
• Good team player