Test Engineering Lead Edinburgh, Scotland
Tesco Bank
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
50240 - 65000 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
General information
Job Title
Test Engineering Lead
Ref #
8216
Location
Edinburgh
Department
Engineering
Business Area
Engineering
Working time
Full-Time
Date Published
23-05-2023
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Test Engineering Lead (Test Automation and Tooling)
Edinburgh / Newcastle
Flexible working available
Salary £50,240 up to £65,000 & Benefits
The Role
The role of Test Engineering Lead (Automation & Tooling) is a leadership engineering position, with a focus on implementing our strategy across self-managed teams.
Leading on improvement initiatives, coaching and for driving standards, technology and innovation across the test engineering function and within value streams and platforms.
You will:
- Pro-actively contribute towards our Agile test engineering strategy, as well as our engineering principles, practices, and standards.
- Deliver as part of the test engineering leadership team and Centre of Expertise to suggest, implement and effect change on processes, practices, tooling and raising awareness across key initiatives to deliver our test engineering transformation strategy.
- Deploy and lead test engineers within systems teams to testing and quality solutions.
- Participate in the innovation and continuous improvement process to meet the changing demands of the business and emerging industry trends and standards.
- Recruitment and line management of senior test engineers.
- Collaborate with the value streams and platform teams to promote enterprise shift-left techniques and provide risk assessment to determine test types required and automation approach.
- Initiate and lead strategic quality initiatives within our engineering function.
- Provide leadership and guidance to teams, coaching and mentoring team members to aid continuous improvement.
- Contribute to resource management and capacity planning to support delivery schedule.
- Work effectively within the department troubleshooting and resolving business critical challenges.
What you’ll bring
We don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.
- Extensive experience defining and owning the delivery of test engineering and capability in medium to large organisations.
- Experience of delivering in agile environment with a focus on embedding a continuous testing approach into the SDLC.
- An ability to convert thought leadership on testing and quality solutions and processes to improve the Tesco Bank Test and Quality Assurance Practice.
- Experience and understanding of defining and implementing automation frameworks
- A clear view of how to train and enhance the skills of our people to deliver in a continuous testing model
- Strong leadership in challenging situations #LI-KP1
How to apply
We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
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?
We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
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.
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.
