Introduction

The Dutch Tax Authority growing a small and flexible team that provides ad-hoc solutions in the Tax and Customs Administration and Process landscape. Given the (fiscal) importance of the continuity of the primary processes of the tax authorities, being able to quickly offer high-quality and technically appropriate solutions is crucial. The team is focusing on solving all possible technical and process issues. Recurring assignments are: Realization Small Entrepreneurship Scheme (300,000 entrepreneurs, Carbon Tax (800,000 vehicles,> 10mlj messages), rebuilding Contribution Ecclesiastical Institutions, rebuilding application dividend tax, etc.

The organization is responsible for and provides the ICT facilities. Most of the applications are currently being developed, maintained and managed by the organization in its own data center. In addition to ensuring continuity in the massive levy and collection processes that take place within a solid, stable environment, efforts are also being made to modernize the IT landscape. This is partly done internally by making use of the expertise that is available internally, but also by attracting (ready-made) solutions and expertise from the market.

The Task

For the Technical Support Team, we are looking for two Senior testers with a great deal of knowledge and experience in performance testing and performance analysis (from now on Specialist performance testing). Both performance testing specialists are used for the Digital Highway Customs (DSD) program. The performance testing specialist is expected to:

-        Design various types of performance tests

-        Script test cases with performance test tools, such as JMeter or comparable tooling

-        Intake of test / acceptance environment

-        Setting up load models, simulating the load

-        performing the automated tests, analyzing the results and drawing up a report;

-        transferring and testing realized tests in the development teams

-        proactively advising development teams with regard to performance improvements. exception are carried out in the evenings and / or weekends.

Many new systems are currently built from building blocks or are standard applications whose parameters are set so that the standard application is made suitable for a specific situation. The involvement of (end) users and the method of testing are related to this adjusted. In addition, the introduction of Agile Scrum and Test Driven Development has placed much more emphasis on as much as possible automated testing by the systems themselves.

The latest developments in test management are in the field of test engineering.

Background: A significant increase in the volume of messages to be processed for Customs systems is expected from UCC (Customs Code of the Union) and from E-commerce. To determine whether these expected numbers can be processed, a process has been started to analyze the performance of a number of Customs IT systems and improve them where necessary. Customs has chosen to place all parties involved in Customs IV facilities within 1 organizational form, using SAFe and Agile principles and the Scrum method. The production of Customs applications is organized in three process chains with a total of 17 Agile teams. The Technical Support Team is not a regular scrum team. In fact, the TTO is a form of a System team. Team TTO provides technical support to the production teams with 12 FTEs. The infrastructure on which the Customs applications are hosted is provided by the organizational unit DCS.

Additional knowledge areas / Examples of training

ISTQB Foundation, IT Foundation; A + Essentials, Information Systems Foundation, Project Management Foundation; PRINCE2 Foundation, Application Management Foundation, Design and Development Information Systems Foundation; Object Orientation Foundation

What we ask from you

-        Test Management Experience

-        At least 3 years experience as a Test Professional

-        TMap NEXT Advanced OR ISTQB Advanced certified

-        At least 2 years demonstrable experience with building performance tests with Jmeter or comparable tooling

-        You have a (internal) customer centric attitude

-        Very good command of the Dutch and/or English language

Nice to haves (not all are necessary)

-        Completed IT training, at least at HBO level

-        Demonstrable experience with Agile Scrum is an advantage

-        Experience with Mainframe (z / OS)

-        Experience with Websphere MQ (version 8 or higher)

-        Basic knowledge of databases (specific DB2 on z / OS is an advantage)

-        Basic knowledge of networks

-        Experience with a Unix variant such as Linux is an advantage

Summary:

Start date: 01-09-2020 but preferably 17-08-2020

Hours per week: 36