Senior Quality Engineer

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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer
SALARY: £70,729 - £78,810

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in our Manchester office

About this opportunity

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, constantly evolving business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Would you like to be part of the next phase in our transformation? We're moving into streaming of data and cloud technologies, underpinned to meet data needs and our team. We're at the heart of our Group wide change.

Where does this role sit?

This role sits within our Smarter Journeys Lab, a co-located team within the Colleague Channels Platform, where we're building solutions with modern, innovative technology, including AI. We work together on key initiatives to deliver value at pace by designing services that colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use.

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

As a Quality Engineer, you’ll be making a real difference, as you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team.

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, Engineers and DevOps Teams to redefine design, functionality, features and experiments.

• Drive transformation in quality engineering, play a key role in delivering quality software solutions into production.

• Participate in Communities of Practice, Guilds and improvement working groups.

• Coach other members in the team including junior engineer and partner resources.

Skills/ experience we'd need to see:

• Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.

• Knowledge of AI and Machine Learning, exposure to testing AI models and using AI in test automation.

• Experience in creating UI and API automated tests using automation tools such as Playwright (preferably) or equivalent and understanding of BDD framework with Cucumber.

• Be highly competent in one of the following languages: Typescript, Javascript or equivalent.

• Agile experience and experience of working with Jira and Confluence.

• Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.

• Great teammate with good collaboration skills, with a willingness to improve your knowledge and experience.

• Growth Mindset - keen desire to lean and develop further.

• Comfortable participating in workshops.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Performance Testing using tools such as Load Runner, K6, JMeter or equivalent.

• Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as OCP, AWS, GCP or Azure.

• CI/CD experience e.g. GIT Hub, Jenkins.

• Security testing using tools such as Burp suite, Zap or equivalent.

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s exciting 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.