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Quality Engineering Lead Lloyds Banking Group

Edinburgh (Highly remote, but must be able to commit to 1 day per week in the Edinburgh office)Salary & Benefits: £52,912- £66,140 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health. Who are Lloyds Banking Group?Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our extensive transformation Programme, with an investment of £3bn, redefining what a bank is from the inside out.Where does this role sitWe're creating exciting opportunities within the Servicing Value Stream in Commercial & Business Banking Transformation to improve customer experiences for years to come. With our business evolving to more modern and flexible ways of working, we want driven, dynamic and innovative individuals to join us on this journey.Created at the start of 2020, the wider team covers some of the key journeys, propositions and channels that support our Commercial customers with their everyday banking needs.We're hugely proud of the relationships we hold with our clients and key partners as trusted delivery providers. This is key to our success.Our culture brings together experienced, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working, always learning and improving ourselves and sharing knowledge. Together we make it possible! What will I do? As Quality Engineering Lead for Trade you will be responsible for leading the QE activities across a number of feature teams. This includes shaping and planning test strategies, through to managing and producing detailed test schedules and plans, to effective execution - all the while leading your team to ensure high quality outputs. You'll also play a key part in delivering our transformation agenda through driving test automation and dev ops / tooling. It will also involve shaping how we do testing and determining the strategic direction of the QE teamsEncouraging the right culture is key and you'll strive to promote a "Fail Fast, Learn Faster" approach within your team, experimenting new ways of engineering, to act as a change agent for engineering and team culture. Embracing a test and learn approach, with a focus on learning and continuous improvement.You should have A prior background with Quality Engineering backed up by a proven track record of QA delivery across large complex programmes.An ability to manage multiple streams of application delivery through end to end testing, including NFT and Security Phases - DAST, SAST, SCA, PEN.An understanding of Evergreen with experience in ensuring assurance is embedded into DevOps pipelines.Experience in the delivery of large scale automated testing.Proven experience and ability to coordinate and lead large teams across multiple platforms in various locations.Experience of being able to apply previously acquired knowledge to define Programme test strategies and able to demonstrate different test approaches based on previous knowledge of process, application and resource availability - an ability to face into issues and think creatively.Confidence in the usage of industry QA tooling and applying this across the E2E Test lifecycle.Strong business and partner collaboration experience and skills. You'll be comfortable presenting and updating at Programme director level / Steering Committees and be able to influence outcomes positively.Experience in Finance, Group Change Governance (including Audit), Risk Management and Full Test Cycle Traceability.You'll be able to turn complex technical testing into Senior stakeholder packs for effective communication.Experience in managing events and an ability to lead on Incident Management and Business Testing in Production on cutover.What type of personal skills do we look for?"This is a technical role, but your people skills are often more important."Brilliant people and communication skills! That includes the ability to manage, influence and coach a wide range of stakeholders.You'll be comfortable working within multi-disciplinary teams, take a collaborative approach and be genuinely passionate about the field of Quality Engineering.This would be a great role if you……Really want to make a positive difference within our Engineering communityWant to be at the heart of delivering an exciting and challenging change agendaEnjoy a people focused and technical positionCan readily translate the importance of technicalities to non-technical people and the relevant business impacts.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.We promote an inclusive and supportive culture - it's one of the many things our people love about working with us. We're really keen to support all our colleagues in finding new opportunities, including considering flexible working arrangements or additional support.We'll also ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.Sound like you? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you.