Quality Engineer - Everyday Banking Platform

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Job Description

Quality Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, at least 2 days in the office.

About us

Everyday Banking is a key platform for Lloyds Banking Group with a very broad reach across the Bank’s customer base and a diverse stakeholder group. The platform is responsible for the end-to-end journeys for personal current accounts and savings products to consumers and providing a market leading customer experience through the servicing of Debit and Credit cards through multiple channels.

As a quality engineer working across our feature teams , you will be technically literate, experienced in manual and automated testing processes, knowledgeable in the Savings On-Boarding journeys, able to communicate well and have an interest in ensuring quality services are delivered for customers and colleagues. A growth attitude and willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is important.

With our breadth, reach and diversity, we can offer excellent opportunities for career growth and development. And we are looking for people who can seize those opportunities; you'll get plenty of support but it's about taking the initiative, building relationships and making it happen. Do this and you can help us make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues and our communities.

So what would you be doing for us?

• Create Test artefacts in line with an agreed Test Strategy, writing automation Test scripts against user stories and maintaining Test traceability.

• A focus on reducing risk and building confidence in the team and its stakeholders on the quality definition of the product.

• Identifying defects and working with the feature team to provide fixes preventing defect leakage. Helping to capture lessons learnt to prevent similar issues in the future.

• Ensure that Testing is conducted in a way which is consistent with - and exploits  the collective frameworks, patterns and best practices that exist across the wider Test community

• Work with Software Engineers, Performance Engineers, Customer Journey Managers, Product Owners, Architects and Designers as a part of the Feature Team.

• Open to new “thought process” and Change mindset, bring in new ways of working/ innovative and creative ways of delivering “Quality”.

• Being a member of the QA Guild helping to build the community and building the capabilities of others.

What we need from you:

• Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering background with a deep knowledge of Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools.

• Experience of leading and embedding Quality Transformation initiatives across multiple areas.

• Experience of working in a dynamic agile delivery environment Testing web applications.

• Experienced in defining Quality Engineering and Assurance deliverables producing quality Test artefacts.

• Technical specialist expertise with experience in BDD

• An automation first Test approach with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk.

• Experience and knowledge across the entire Test Lifecycle including Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Test Data and Environments

• Proficient experience with toolsets including Selenium, Cucumber, Perfecto, Appium, Saucelabs, Blazemeter, Jenkins , CA Lisa, Jira and QC

• Technical background with experience of Programming Languages including JavaScript, Java, SQL/noSQL, Python and Unix Shell,

• Experience of mobile testing, android and ios  

• Experience of integration with legacy mainframe systems, including COBOL, JCL, IMS, SDSF, TSO, VSAM, DB2

• Proven ability to perform exploratory testing

• ISTQB Certified Software Tester

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 interesting 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.