JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £ 78,810
LOCATION: Halifax
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax office location
About this opportunity
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, constantly evolving business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
Would you like to be part of the next phase in our transformation? We're moving into streaming of data and cloud technologies, underpinned to meet data needs and our team. We're at the heart of our Group wide change.
Where does this role sit?
This role sits within our Strategic Enablement Lab, a co-located team within the Colleague Channels Platform, where we're building solutions with modern, innovative technology, including AI. We work together on key initiatives to deliver value at pace by designing services that colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use.
Here's how you'll make a difference:
As a Quality Engineer, you'll be making a real difference, as you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team.
* Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, Engineers and DevOps Teams to redefine design, functionality, features and experiments.
* Drive transformation in quality engineering, play a key role in delivering quality software solutions into production.
* Participate in Communities of Practice, Guilds and improvement working groups.
* Coach other members in the team including junior engineer and partner resources.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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:
* Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.
* Knowledge of AI and Machine Learning, exposure to testing AI models and using AI in test automation.
* Experience in creating UI and API automated tests using automation tools such as Playwright (preferably) or equivalent and understanding of BDD framework with Cucumber.
* Be highly competent in one of the following languages: Typescript, Javascript or equivalent.
* Agile experience and experience of working with Jira and Confluence.
* Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.
* Great teammate with good collaboration skills, with a willingness to improve your knowledge and experience.
* Growth Mindset - keen desire to lean and develop further.
* Comfortable participating in workshops.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
* Performance Testing using tools such as Load Runner, K6, JMeter or equivalent.
* Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as OCP, AWS, GCP or Azure.
* CI/CD experience e.g. GIT Hub, Jenkins.
* Security testing using tools such as Burp suite, Zap or equivalent.
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
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