End Date
Thursday 02 May 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £75,780
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer
LOCATION(S): Dundee / 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 in the office.
Are you an experienced Lead or Senior Quality Engineer and looking for an opportunity to play an integral role in building the future of Embark? 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.
The Business area:
Embark joined LBG in January 2022 with its mission to deliver a market leading, modern and self-managed investment offering that can be offered to LBG customers. The first direct to customer investment product was launched late Feb 2023 and is the first of an exciting roadmap of new products and existing product feature enhancements. Embark will also enable LBG to reinvigorate and enhance our intermediary proposition under Scottish Widows and grow this sector alongside the existing Embark white label propositions. Through investment in modern digital technology we will improve advisor experience and make it easier for them to do business with us.
About the role:
We're looking to recruit a Lead Quality Engineer to play a key role in developing and building our capability in Quality Engineering, focussing mainly on the non-functional side of testing but able to partner with the functional test manager and cover for each other as a leadership team. As well as leading Quality Engineering delivery across projects, programmes & agile methodology, you’ll also lead our Non-Functional team / suppliers.
We’re looking for someone with a strong desire, and the capability, to deliver a highly effective service for Embark and adopt/achieve shared goals. We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you great!
What follows is what you might find our Lead Quality Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.
Job Description
Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
* Form part of the senior test management team supporting core FNZ platform delivery alongside digital UI/UX
* Define the test Non-Functional strategy and implement solutions focused on increasing the pace of change
* Support functional testing when required (e.g. holiday cover for Functional test list)
* Lead a team/suppliers, providing a full suite of Non-Functional services Embark and be responsible for achieving incremental improvements, proactive identification and alerting of issues, self-management/healing, and effective management information to support future investments
* You'll input into the decision-making on how funds are spent, investments are made, and colleagues recruited to deliver maximum value
* Be a trusted advisor, utilising your technical knowledge and experience to support teams to define their test strategy
* Have strong experience of a Test First approach coupled with a “Continuous Automation delivery method”, to maximise speed and assurance of delivery
* Lead a team of Engineers supporting their personal skills development to ensure they are highly effective, motivated, and develop emerging technical skills to support new initiatives
* Be a strong advocate of the Quality Engineering Chapter/Guild, demonstrating leadership and fostering engagement across the Payments Services Platform Quality Engineering Community
What we need from you:
* Strong Quality Engineering background and understanding of agile and non-agile development practices; automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration management, etc.
* Operational Risk Management experience
* Understanding of Cyber Security expectations
* Experience in providing Quality Engineering oversight, technical leadership and setting the direction
* Experience in following: (Prav to complete with skills he needs)
* Performance Center / Loadrunner - Enterprise script creation, test execution and high level transactional monitoring
* CA DevTest - Virtual servicing
* Jmeter - Script Creation
* Dynatrace - Infrastructure and Application Performance monitoring
* Postman - Script / Connectivity testing
* Software as a Service offerings
* Experience across the entire development lifecycle from inception, through build to production
* Ability to develop colleagues through stretching technical and personal development plans
* Passion for coaching other software and quality engineers whilst building a strong team culture
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
About working for us
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. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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
* 28 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.
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.
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