Quality Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer

SALARY: £68,000pa to £83,000pa plus the benefits listed below.

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full-time.

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week on site and 3 days from home. Additionally, you can work from home all 5 days a week between the months of July and September each year.

Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we put our customers at the heart of everything we do, and every colleague has an important part to play. We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

Do you want to play a crucial role as part of our engineering team, with a dedication to excellent quality and build, leading, maintaining and evolving our quality engineering capabilities whilst adopting industry best practices and standards?

This role sits within our Smarter Journeys Lab, a co-located team within the Colleague Channels Platform. We work together on key initiatives to deliver value at pace by designing services colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use. As a Quality Engineer within this Lab you'll be working in an Agile project environment, driving transformation by leading the test automation strategy and delivering quality software solutions into production.

You’ll also understand the importance of testing and the Quality Framework within LBG and educate other change disciplines, driving agile adoption in teams as part of the broader engineering community, from cultural aspects of agile to adoption of collaboration tools.

What you’ll need

• Experience of owning and embedding Quality Engineering Transformation ideas and conducting training and upskilling sessions for colleagues within a team or practice, develop their skills in software programming and use of different test automation tools.

• Experience in creating Feasibility Analysis, analysing automation Quotients and Return of Investment (ROI) articulations and influence and shape enterprise quality roadmaps by running POCs, suggesting tooling improvements and proactively enhancing frameworks for the wider quality community.

• Strong experience in automating functional and regression testing using a variety of tools such as Playwright (most preferred) or Selenium/Cypress and experience in API testing, creating API testing framework using tools such as Playwright, Rest Assured and Postman or equivalent.

• Experience in developing BDD framework with Cucumber and in writing step definition using Gherkin based features and script refactoring.

• Experience working with tooling for DevOps execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT Hub and experience with Agile testing methods & tooling (Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence) within an Agile team.

• Experience with programming languages such as Javascript or Typescript or equivalent.

And any experience of these would be useful

• Performance Testing using tools such as Performance Centre / Load Runner and Jmeter or equivalent.

• Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as OCP, AWS, GCP or Azure.

• API micro services and contract testing.

• Security testing using tools such as Zap, Burp suite or equivalent.

• Disaster recovery testing and OAT.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.  We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.  We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

Want to do amazing work, that’s exciting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.