Quality Engineer

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Lloyds banking Group is on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

We're looking to recruit a Quality Engineer to work in a cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software whilst shaping the way we reduce risk through the Test cycle and drive overarching Chapter guidelines and principles.

Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others).

What you'll do

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 awesome!

What follows is what you might find our 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.

Want to know more?

You'll have passion for coaching other engineers and building a strong team culture through peer-to-peer collaboration and development

You'll have an automation first Test approach with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk

You'll have passion to work collaboratively across the teams in order to align to the Engineering Strategy and meet the overall goals of the Bank and Partners

You''ll be confident to express own opinions, and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

Key Accountabilities

Defining acceptance criteria against user stories and maintaining Test traceability

A focus on reducing risk and building confidence in the team and its partners on the quality definition of the product

Identifying defects and working with the feature team to provide fixes preventing defect leakage. Helping to gather lessons learnt to prevent similar issues in the future

Ensure that Testing is conducted in a way which is consistent with - and exploits the collective frameworks, patterns and standard methodologies that exist across the wider Test community

Work with Software Engineers, Non-functional quality engineers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Architects and Designers to understand solution choices, whether operational or technological, and support on delivering an incremental plan

Open to new "thought process" and Change mindset, bring in new ways of working/ innovative and creative ways of delivering "Quality"

Learning from, aligning to and feeding into the Quality Engineering Guild across the Group to maintain and evolve the best practise in quality engineering

Ensuring your area of responsibility is aligned with overall test strategies and transformation, pushing boundaries and seeking opportunities to improve

And as for your skills?

We'll need you to have four (or more) of these technologies:

Strong knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle and experience in Feature Team delivery of software products

Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence

Experience of working as part of an agile team

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

Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering background with a deep knowledge of Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools

Experience of leading and embedding Quality Transformation initiatives across multiple areas

Experience of working in a dynamic agile delivery environment testing web applications

Experienced in defining Quality Engineering and Assurance work producing quality Test artifacts

Technical specialist expertise with experience in BDD

Experience and knowledge across the entire Test Lifecycle including Quality Engineering, Performance Engineering, Test Data and Environments

We deeply value diversity, and are proudly committed to being an equal opportunity employer. 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 aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

You'll also receive a package that includes

Discretionary bonus

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

Private Medical Insurance

Generous pension contribution.

Share plans

30 days holiday

Sound like you? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you...