Senior Quality Engineer

About this opportunity: 

Are you interested in joining an innovative platform team dedicated to modernizing the mobile app development lifecycle within our bank? This is your chance to play a crucial role in driving quality solutions and enabling continuous testing of our mobile app. 

Our team consists of Quality Engineers (QEs) focused on mobile testing, embedded within cross-functional teams delivering fully functional features. You will be empowered to ensure that user-facing changes are tested effectively. 

What will you be doing with us? 

• Determine the best automated testing strategies to ensure safe deployment while minimizing time spent on resolving flaky tests. 
• Assist and inspire your team to perform the necessary tests, both manually and automated. You may assist as needed, but extensive hands-on testing will not be a regular part of your day-to-day activities. 
• Distribute testing efforts within the team. 
• Leading, Innovating & working as part of an agile team. 
• Use your experience of modern software development toolsets and demonstrate the ability to stretch into DevOps, Continuous Integration and Delivery pipelines. 
• Using toolsets such as Selenium Webdriver, Jenkins, Harness, Postman/Thunderclient, Jira/Xray, non-functional test tools, continuous integration tools, 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. 
• Logical and creative thinking skills 
• Ability to work independently and to take ownership - and use own initiative. 
• Work with a range of internal and external colleagues 
• Communicate effectively in a variety of situations. 

Why Lloyds Banking Group? 

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we are shaping finances for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. 

What you’ll need 

• A solid Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering background with excellent knowledge of Test Lifecycle, Test Models, Best Practices, Test Benchmarking and Test Tools. This includes a good awareness of Test Data and Environments. 
• Be able to project and implement "Automation first" approach in every phase of software delivery process that aids speed to market, better quality and reduces risks. 
• Experience with toolsets including Selenium, WDIO, HeadSpin,ALM, Cucumber, GitHub, Postman; with a willingness to learn and develop those skills that will be needed for success in the future. 
• Work in cross-disciplinary feature teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high-quality software. 
• Showcase excellent interpersonal and communications skills whilst expertly working across the project lifecycle to ensure software operates as intended. 
• Exercise responsibility, autonomy and judgement within broad, but well-defined parameters. 
• Work in a highly collaborative way to complete assigned work, showcase progress and address problems that are well defined, complex, and often non-routine. 
• Be a quick learner with a growth mindset adapting to new technologies being used within Lloyds and the wider industry whilst bringing those around them on the same journey. 
• Significant problem solving, fixing and analytical skills. 
• Experience of leading test teams, test management, Coordination of testing across our partners and mentoring junior team members. 

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 performance-related bonus 
• 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