Quality Engineer

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At Lloyds Banking Group our aim is to create a forward-thinking engineering culture that supports the business in delivering high quality, efficient and positive impact outcomes for customers. The role of our Quality Engineers are vital in ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards that our customers expect.

Quality Assurance provides a Quality Engineering Centre of Perfection to deliver and continuously improve Quality Engineering through innovation and automation. Driving excellence in testing, supporting Enterprise Transformation Major Core Programmes and Value Streams, with a shared goal of building the best bank of the future.

You'll help define "Done" from a Quality perspective and deliver Test solutions in line with the Test Strategy and our QA Engineering principles. You'll always have a view of reducing risk through the Test lifecycle and will help drive the overarching Quality Engineering strategy. Your thought process will be automation first making use of a modern toolchain and automation framework.

Want to know more?

As an Enterprise Data Strategy Senior Manager you'll be responsible for leading and crafting strategies which will allow the Bank to respond to the most critical opportunities and challenges presented by data. These will be broad in scope, based on the breadth of Enterprise Data's services and its role as the central owner of customer data within the Group.

About the role:

You'll shape strategic initiatives, providing consultation across the wider Enterprise Data team and lead on executive messaging around data innovation and value to senior partners.

So what would you be doing for us

Leading & working as part of an agile team

Your experience of using modern software development toolsets and ability to stretch into DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery

Document and communicate complex software solutions.

Working in a dynamic agile delivery environment

Defining Quality Engineering and Assurance work producing quality Test artifacts

Develop yourselves with industry standards methods and tooling used across their engineering teams

Express your own opinions, and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

Using toolsets such as Selenium, Cucumber, Perfecto, Appium, Cloud based and Performance test tools, Continuous Integration Tools, Service virtualization, Jira, ALM with a focus on industry leading and open source tooling

Working with partners in and out of teams and projects building long lasting collaborative relationships

Work with multi-disciplinary teams across the software development lifecycle

Work "hands-on" alongside all other Engineering Disciplines

Model the behaviours required to support the organisation's transformation to new ways of working

Use an automation first Test approach with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk

Have confidence to express own opinions, and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

Logical and creative thinking skills

Ability to work independently and to take responsibility - and uses own initiative

Work with a range of internal and external colleagues

Communicate effectively in a variety of situations

Maintain productive, professional and secure working environment

What we need from you:

Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering background with a deep knowledge of Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools. This includes a good awareness of Test Data and Environments

Experience of leading and embedding Quality Transformation initiatives across multiple areas.

A strong advocate of industry trends who continually develops themselves with industry standard methodology in order to advance the direction of Quality Engineering in Lloyds

Be able to project and implement "Automation first" approach in every phase of software delivery process that aids speed to market, better quality and reduces risks.

Experience with toolsets including UFT, ALM, Selenium, Cucumber, Perfecto, Appium, Saucelabs, Jenkins , CA Lisa, Jira and Performance Centre; with a willingness to learn those skills that will be needed for success in the future

Technical specialist expertise on LBG applications or testing toolsets

Deliver the highest quality customer driven software to production with the team being continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported.

Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software.

Showcase excellent interpersonal and communications skills whilst expertly working across the project lifecycle to ensure software operates as intended.

Experience of working with partners in and out of feature teams and projects building long lasting collaborative relationships

Exercise responsibility, autonomy and judgement within broad, but well defined parameters.

Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex and often non-routine.

Be quick learners who can learn and adapt to new technologies being used within Lloyds and the wider industry whilst bringing those around them on the same journey.

Significant problem solving, troubleshooting and analytical skills

Understand the importance of quality and hence create and implement approaches, guidelines, principles defined by themselves and their Quality Engineering peers.

Excitement about enabling others to achieve greater results than one can achieve alone and being part of a wider delivery team responsible for end to end solutions.

If this is you, come and join our inclusive, values-led culture focused on making a difference.

Together we'll make it possible...

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your dream, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

We're also passionate about diversity and providing genuine equal opportunities...

You'll also receive a package that includes

Car or car allowance of up to £4,788 per year

Discretionary bonus between 20-40% of base pay

Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash

Private Medical Insurance

Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 13%

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