Quality Engineer

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We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Job Description Summary

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer and looking for an opportunity to play an integral role in building the future of Lloyds Banking Group? Do you want to build your leadership skills as part of a great team? Then read on to find out more about our exciting vacancy.

Our Team

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is the UK's biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers. We are passionate about our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper and set out an ambition for a financial services company that embraces the digital age.

We'll provide you with continuous training and development opportunities and regular career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations might be.

We promote an inclusive, diverse, and nurturing culture - it's one of the many things our colleagues love about working with us. We encourage colleagues to be flexible in their ways of working, so you can balance your personal commitments with the needs of the business.

We'd also like to reassure applicants that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Job Description

Agile Working Options:

Flexibility in when hours are worked

We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options.

About This Opportunity

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer and looking for an opportunity to play an integral role in building the future of Lloyds Banking Group? Do you want to build your leadership skills as part of a great team? Then read on to find out more about our exciting vacancy.

We're on a values led mission to reimagine the way our customers interact with us, and the tools and experiences our colleagues are empowered with when helping them. By reducing failure demand, increasing self-service and automating processes, through technology, systems design, AI, and human centred design, our Lab works cross-channel across Lloyds Banking Group to make change happen, at pace.

As a Quality Engineer Lead you'll manage all test activities for multiple projects in parallel. You'll engineer a test approach and build test plans looking at scope, resources and skills of the team.

You'll provide quality Engineering oversight, technical leadership and set the direction of the team and develop colleagues through stretching technical and personal development plans

Collaborating closely with development and analysis teams, you'll perform a deep dive to understand both functional and non-functional requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring all test artefacts are up to business standards and of quality

• Defining and delivering business scenarios and test scripts

• Functional Testing & Automation Testing (SOAP UI)

• API Testing (SOAP UI) and maintaining test pack for multiple projects (build mock API responses to speed up test automation runs and trigger various scenarios and responses)

• Post release testing in production environments

• Support Operations team in production as and when required for critical issues

• Defect management and reporting activities using ALM and JIRA

• Administration of solutions based on .NET, HTML/CSS/JavaScript and other web technologies.

• Front End web development through HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript skills including responsive design and graceful degradation techniques

• Covering multiple user roles, devices, browsers, and operating systems via online tools such as BrowserStack.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What You'll Need

• Strong Quality Engineering background and understanding of agile and non-agile development practices; automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration management, etc.

• Wrap Platform testing experience having knowledge on SIPP, ISA, and GIA products.

• Understanding of Cyber Security expectations

• Experience of a broad range of testing including system, integration, and end-to-end testing.

• Experience across the entire development lifecycle from inception, through build to production

• Passion for coaching other software and quality engineers whilst building a strong team culture

• Ability to demonstrate a good understanding of UX and UI principles and best practices.

Technical Skills:

• Performance Centre / Loadrunner - Enterprise script creation, test execution and high level transactional monitoring

• Postman - Script / Connectivity testing

• Software as a Service offerings

• CA DevTest - Virtual servicing

• Jmeter - Script Creation

About Working for UsOur 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 performance-related bonus

• 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

This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together.

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Crown Dependencies are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Crown Dependencies would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.

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.