• Job Description

  Req#: 095005

  End Date

  Monday 15 April 2024

  Salary Range

  £41,715 - £46,350

  We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

  Flexible Working Options

  Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

  JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer
  SALARY: From £45,054
  LOCATION(S): 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 our Sighthill North office

  Job Description

  About this opportunity

  We're looking to recruit a Quality Engineer to be part of our Payments Services Platform and help achieve our mission to provide compliant and efficient payments capabilities for the Group and drive innovation to enable customers to move money confidently, quickly and securely.

  As a Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role in driving quality software solutions into production. You’ll be continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported and help define “Done” from a Quality perspective and deliver Test solutions in line with the Test Strategy and our Quality Engineering principles.

  As an Quality Engineer, you’ll:

  • Work with an Agile team of colleagues from different fields to plan and implement highly effective testing to ensure excellent delivery quality to colleagues and customers.

  • Exercise your “T-Shape” capabilities to develop and further improve the expansion of our Test Automation framework to deliver quality testing in a rapid execution timeline.

  • Be part of the Quality Engineering (Automated Test Engineers) community to learn and grow individually but also working with others to help the community improve.

  • Work collaboratively with the Product Owner as well as Engineers, Business Analysts and Scrum Masters to help building the feature team capability.

  We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

  What you’ll need

  We’re looking for someone who is technically literate, experienced in automated and manual testing processes, keen to learn, able to communicate well, with an interest in ensuring quality services are delivered for customers and colleagues. A willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is crucial.

  Ideally, you’ll have:

  Technical

  • Experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer, understand how to implement and improve Software Quality Assurance Practices.

  • Experience working in collaborative and agile teams.

  • Previous work experience with Java, Springboot, Cucumber, Maven, BDD/TDD, Git, Jira/Confluence.

  • Coding ability (e.g. Java) to support the creation and maintenance of automation frameworks.

  • Experience in Testing Middleware/Microservices/API Platforms

  • Previous work experience in quality engineering practices in both manual and automated testing, functional / non-functional coverage throughout the testing lifecycle (Functional, Non-Functional, Live Proving)

  • Experience in defect management and documentation (all test deliverables within the lifecycle).

  And any experience of these would be really useful

  • Knowledge of DevOps principles, practices and working experience with tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud, Jenkins, Splunk, Dynatrace.

  • Experience/Understanding of Event Driven Architectures such as Kafka

  • Experience of exploratory test techniques

  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:

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

  • Share schemes including free shares

  • Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

  • 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

  Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

  At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

  We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

  We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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