Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer

SALARY: £68,202 to £75,780

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

Insurance & Wealth Transformation has a vision to improve the support we provide to our customers throughout their financial lives, empowering them to make the right decisions on their long-term saving, investment, and retirement needs. We are doing this by providing clear, straightforward customer journeys, supported by flexible and resilient product platforms and services.

You will be accountable for running and leading testing across our Monthly Release cycle, assuring the quality of delivery into these Releases and managing the raising of defects and backlog items for addressing either within the current Sprint or for prioritisation for future sprints. You will be working with a peer or reporting team of other Quality Engineers and will need to be detailed yet flexible as befits Agile delivery.

What will you be doing with us?

Leading, Innovating & working as part of an agile team
Looking to automate testing where appropriate, updating and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team.
Use your experience of modern software development toolsets and demonstrate the ability to stretch into DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines
Defining and Leading Quality Engineering and Assurance work ensuring the highest quality of shippable products and quality artifacts.
Develop yourselves with industry standards, methods and tooling used across our engineering teams and introduce new concepts, approaches and tooling

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you'll need

Experience of test automation QE experience in shift left engineering using latest cutting edge technology earlier in the life cycle and set code review best practices on BDD scripts in both desktop applications and mobile applications.
An understanding of Java / JavaScript/ NodeJS / Postman / TDD/BDD Best Practices or alternatively hands-on experience with Java programming and capable of building the test framework from the beginning.
Previous experience of performance testing
Using toolsets such as Selenium, UFT, ALM, Postman, Cloud based and Performance test tools, Continuous Integration Tools, Service virtualization with a focus on industry leading and open-source tooling
Work "hands-on" alongside all other Engineering Disciplines
Model the behaviours required to support the organisation's transformation to new ways of working

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: