Senior Test Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
General information
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Senior Test Engineer
Edinburgh or Newcastle, Flexible/Remote working available
Excellent Salary & Benefits
Our purpose
The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. Built with a culture of innovation we are ready for the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical specialists, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that’s changing the face of banking for our customers
We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.
The Role
Tesco Bank is looking for a Senior Test Engineer to create components to solutions that enable the Bank to respond to key challenges & realise exciting opportunities aligned to agreed design specifications, engineering standards & patterns.
You Will:
- Follow testing processes and techniques to develop Test Plans and Scenarios and Cases
- Analyse User Stories & Requirements connecting with Analysts and Engineers to developed sophisticated solutions, assessing the soundness of proposed solutions, ensuring they are fit for purpose.
- Maintain test automation frameworks
- Using domain knowledge and a risk-based approach, split testing effort effectively into the functional automated tests, structured exploratory testing sessions and non-functional testing (UI, accessibility, performance, and security).
- Development of tailored test automation solutions for front-end and web services, integrated in CI/CD pipeline, managed in code repository.
- Continuously assess and refactor test scenarios.
- Estimate test effort for planned work, feedback any required metrics to Test Manager.
- Build and maintain vital online documentation.
- Assessing the techniques, solutions and tools used in Tesco Bank.
- Take active part in Test Community of Practice and Communities of Interest for the benefit of wider Tesco Bank engineering community.
What you’ll bring
- Considerable testing and/or development experience.
- Structured test methods and processes
- Common software designs and high-risk areas
- Risk based approach to testing
- Experience working in collaborative agile development environments, preferably using BDD.
- Proven understanding of at least one programming or scripting language.
- Experienced in building and maintaining test automation using code repository and CI/CD.
- Understanding of non-functional aspects of testing
- Nice to have: Java, SQL, SOAP/Rest, Cucumber-JVM, IntelliJ, Jenkins, JIRA, AWS, Linux, JMeter.
How to apply
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!
Why Tesco Bank?
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.
All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.
