Quality Engineer

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Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Description Summary

Drives quality throughout the change lifecycle working in a cross-disciplinary team. Undertakes & manages testing of more complex code changes across multiple types of testing to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise. Understands the importance of testing and the Quality Framework within LBG and educates other change disciplines. Looks to automate testing where appropriate, updating and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team. Participates in & establishes Communities of Practice, Guilds and improvement working groups and shares learning to members of their team and across the testing community. Undertakes mentoring and coaching as well as additional leadership activities. Keen to deepen their technical knowledge and understanding as well develop, practice and demonstrate the workplace skills and behaviours required for this job role.

Job Description

Lloyds Banking Group are transforming the way we do Engineering. We’ve created “LBG Labs” and we're building multi-functional, collaborative  teams giving them freedom to bring technology to the forefront of our business. This will help us create new, and improve existing, products and services to help us really make a difference to our customers.

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A Lab is a co-located team who work together on initiatives to deliver value at pace by designing products and services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. Typically, a Lab has a strong focus on complex problem solving in an agile environment where engineers are free to experiment and create innovative products which will transform the way our customers engage with us.

Our IP&I Labs are focused on improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping empower them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment & Retirement needs. 

About the role:

As Senior Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role in driving quality software solutions into production. You’ll aim to deliver exciting customer driven solutions whilst reducing risk by coaching the team to  embed quality engineering in every phase of the software delivery lifecycle.

 You’ll build the team strategy for making the most effective use of test automation for functional and non-functional testing. . You’ll balance hands on automation expertise with coaching and building up Quality Engineering standards.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

· Deliver exciting customer driven solutions whilst reducing risk by implementing the right level of engineering artefacts through Agile testing

· Driving our quality software solutions into production

· Endorse modern testing approaches

· Delivering real value in the way that we improve our  automation

· Contribute to Guilds such as Security, Accessibility,, Test Automation, Engineering according to your strengths and interests

· Be a Quality engineering champion within Lloyds!

What we need from you:

We like people who come from a variety of backgrounds and having a diverse team. To be considered for the role as a minimum we would need to see the following in this rough order of priority:

· A passion to lead quality engineering and automation

· Extensive experience within a modern quality engineering role, with a good knowledge of the full development lifecycle

· Experience working within a collaborative  Agile team

· Proficiency  in  1 or 2 coding languages, preferably including JavaScript

· Experience in creating test frameworks in a DevOps environment

· Experience of both functional and non-functional testing

· Experience in any of the following tools would be welcomed: Webdriver, Cypress, Postman, SauceLabs, Artillery, Performance Center, SonarQube, Burpsuite, aXe. PA11y, CA DevTest, Jira/Xray,

 Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.

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.