Quality Engineer Halifax, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Halifax, England
66861 - 74290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 20 September 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290Agile Working Options
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. 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
JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer (NFT), ECP Platform
SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290
LOCATION(S): Halifax or Edinburgh
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Trinity Road, Halifax Office (HX1 2RG) or our Sighthill North, Edinburgh Office (EH11 4DT)
About This Opportunity…
Ready to start growing with purpose? We believe that people don't always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you unique!
We're looking to recruit a Quality Engineer, to focus on Non-Functional Testing, to work within a highly proficient and productive engineering team with an ethos of testing and delivering high quality solutions for the bank and its customers. In our Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole group.
In this role you will work collaboratively with the Product Owner as well as Engineers, Business Analysts and Scrum Masters to help build the feature team capability. You'll work to deliver customer driven testing solutions and quality software to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution. You will do this by implementing the right level of Test Engineering principles and artefacts across all testing types through Agile testing with an ‘Automation First’ approach.
About us…
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!
What you’ll need…
- Strong and proven record of agile, DevOps and non-agile quality engineering practices; manual and automated testing, functional and non-functional coverage as well as documentation (all test deliverables within the lifecycle) and defect management.
- Define, develop and implement non-functional testing strategies and frameworks
- Experience of developing, executing and maintaining performance test scripts in LoadRunner and JMeter
- Conduct performance, scalability, reliability, load, stress and other types of non-functional testing
- Analyse test results, identify blockers and problem areas and suggest solutions for improvement
- Usage of monitoring tools which will help in analysing and identifying the bottlenecks, such as Dynatrace and Splunk
- Assist in identifying and implementing suitable testing tools and techniques
- Collaborate with Lab teams to understand system architecture, requirements and potential performance risks
- Technical and practical usage skills in Java, Jenkins, Microservices, Selenium, BDD Cucumber and Jira/Confluence
- You'll take ownership for backlog items, from incubation to execution, reporting to stakeholders and managing the resolution of defects arising from testing. Thus ensuring high standards of delivery which are in line with expectations for Group Critical solutions.
About working for us…
We’re on an exciting journey, we’re already the largest provider of digital banking products in the UK, with over 12 million active online customers and nearly 8 million active mobile banking customers. It means a big opportunity for you to be part of ground-breaking transformation and it means there’s never been a more exciting time to join!
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 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
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our Quality Engineering team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
