Quality Engineer

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At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

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Lloyds Banking Group has approximately 40% of the nation's domestic payment transactions passing through its systems, processing tens of billions of pounds in value daily. Our Payments, Fraud and Financial Crime (PFFC) IT team is at the heart of it all as we develop and maintain capability to become the best bank for customer.

Would you like to help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions?

About the role:

The PFFC Value Stream are embracing digital transformation and building capability to do enable it. The payment microservices team is an Agile based delivery team, building key strategic microservices for the Payments estate, supporting a number of Category A services for the organisation.

As a Quality Engineer you'll be the advocate for quality, helping us to:

Build, test, release and support microservices, using a DevOps tool chain.

You'll be in a technical engineering role, supporting the build, development and maintenance of a highly productive Quality Engineering team instilled with the ethos of delivering high quality solutions.

You'll take ownership for backlog items, quality of build and test and ensure accurate deployments into the production estate, seeking methods (tooling / reviews) to ensure high standards that fulfill expectations for High Availability, Group Critical solutions and will contribute to the support of the new platform.

So what would you be doing for us?

Creating test artefacts in line with an agreed Test Strategy, writing automated acceptance tests against user stories and maintaining test traceability.

Refining user story acceptance criteria using Behaviour Driven Development methods (BDD) and identifying testing needs.

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

Ensuring that Testing is conducted in a way which is consistent with - and exploits the collective frameworks, patterns and best practices that exist across the wider test community.

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.

Experience of agile, dev ops and non-agile development practices; automated build, continuous integration & deployment, configuration management.

An 'automation first' approach to testing with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk within teams. This includes experience of hands on coding activities, ideally JAVA but other languages will suffice as long as you have coding experience

Experience of Payments schemes, Agile, API's and Micro services is also an advantage.

It would be a bonus if you have knowledge or experience in Java Integrated Development Environment, Cucumber (Gherkin), Rest Assured, Lean FT/UFT, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes or similar applications, don't worry if you don't we can help you learn.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we'll make it possible...

You'll also receive a package that includes

Discretionary bonus between 15-30% 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%

Share plans

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today; we'd love to hear from you.

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