General information
Job Title:
Senior Test Engineer
Ref #:
9349
Location:
Edinburgh
Department:
BAR - Engineering
Business Area:
Engineering
Working time:
Full-Time
Date Published:
Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Salary - U
p to £65,520 + annual bonus & benefits
Location
Edinburgh Permanent
Office Attendance
- 2 days per week in our Edinburgh office for this position.
Closing Date
– Applications close 2nd October at 5pm
A chance to thrive
We're looking for a
Senior Test Engineer
to join our CX Platform Team at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc.
Bring your technical testing expertise to influence and enhance how we deliver quality across our feature teams — including hands-on experience with test automation.
This is an opportunity to collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, and Engineers to shape the quality of our products and platforms. Ensure quality for our customers by implementing best practices and standards in an efficient and scalable manner.
Our technology landscape is broad, where experience in Mobile and Online Banking testing is essential, along with a working knowledge of other banking domains. While extensive expertise in every area isn't required, you should be comfortable learning new products and technologies.
What You'll Be Doing
* Delivering risk-based testing approaches by defining test coverage aligned to customer impact and business risk.
* Applying Agile testing principles with a strong understanding of how testing integrates into Agile delivery methodologies.
* Implementing and maintaining automated test suites to drive efficiency and support continuous delivery.
* Ensuring compliance with organisational policies, procedures, and relevant regulatory codes.
* Collaborating with other Senior Test Engineers to maintain a consistent and high-quality customer experience across all channels.
We need you to have
* Proficiency with tools and languages such as Java, Selenium, SOAP/REST, Cucumber, Appium, and Karate.
* Hands-on experience in building and maintaining test automation frameworks, including API testing.
* Proven experience working in collaborative Agile development environments, with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
* Extensive experience in software testing or within Retail Banking.
* Demonstrated experience testing in a DevOps environment, ideally within a Trunk-Based Development team.
And if you have any of these, even better
* Experience coaching junior staff.
* Experience of cross browser and cross device testing.
* Understanding of Behaviour Driven Development and CI/CD.
* Data Testing in financial services environment.
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.
What's In It For You
* Prepare for your retirement with our colleague pension scheme.
* Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service you and your family 365 days a year.
* Performance related annual bonus.
* Indulge in a generous holiday allowance with a minimum of 7.2 weeks, with the opportunity to buy more.
* Benefit from our family-oriented initiatives, encompassing enhanced maternity leave pay, a shared parental leave policy, and a generous 8-week paid paternity leave.
* A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and training, to help you achieve the job and career you want.
* Take part in our Buy as you Earn and Save as your Earn share schemes.
Everyone's welcome
We want all our colleagues to always feel welcome and be themselves at Tesco Bank, part of Barclays Bank UK Plc. We're committed to building a more inclusive workplace and celebrating everything that makes colleagues unique, and value the richness and diversity this brings to our business. A more diverse business helps us deliver on our purpose to serve our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.
Additional Information
Role Alignment
Following the announcement regarding Tesco's' strategic partnership with Barclays, this role will support our banking business and will transfer to Barclay's UK towards the end of 2024, subject to regulatory approval. Please note, the transfer date may change.
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?
Whether we're helping our customers or looking after our people, you'll find there's a warmth and friendliness to everything we do.
It means we put your wellbeing first and give you bags of support, training and development, so you can build the career that's right for you. It's about looking after each other with the same care that we give to our customers.
We've created an environment where everyone feels included, accepted and welcome. Which means you can bring your whole self to work every day and totally thrive at the same time.
Lovely.
Say hello to life in Tesco Bank.