Quality Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Wellington; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in the UK seeks a Quality Engineer to innovate and enhance testing processes. The role offers the opportunity to work on automation suites, collaborate with diverse teams, and contribute to high-quality software delivery. Emphasizing flexible working, the bank provides a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus

Share schemes

28 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in automated and manual testing processes.
• Hands-on experience implementing Playwright/Typescript framework.
• Knowledge of defect management and root cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust automation suites.
• Develop and extend testing frameworks and scripts.
• Write detailed Test Scopes and Test Plans.

Skills

Automated testing

Manual testing

Test engineering best practices

Effective communication

Tools

Playwright

Typescript

JIRA

Job description

End Date
Wednesday 18 June 2025

Salary Range
£47,790 - £53,100

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

Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working

Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds

SALARY: £47,790 - £58,410

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 the above locations.

About this opportunity

IP&I, Accumulation - Workplace Savings provides Testing Services to quality assure testing delivered by our partner team, 3rd party testing team, and LTC Test Team, through innovation and automation, driving excellence in testing.

Join us as a Quality Engineer, with knowledge, you'll use your technical skills to support the delivery of quality software solutions into production. You'll be continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported to develop your skills and bring forward the best solutions to conduct effective testing. You'll work collaboratively with other team members, partners and third parties to create empowered teams who are motivated to solve business problems and realise value to customers.

You will be 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. The role will focus on co-ordination across multiple 3rd party & LBG teams, with some requirement for manual test. A willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is essential.

Here's how you'll make a difference:

• Design and build robust, maintainable, and modular automation suites
• Develop and extend frameworks, templates, and test scripts
• Understand and write the test data requirements, collaborating closely with the external teams across the Value Stream and beyond
• Write detailed Test Scopes, Test Plans and End of Test Reports, evidencing the quality of the software we ship
• Complete some exploratory testing alongside automated testing
• Help decide what and how to monitor & alert on for new functionality

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing 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.

What you'll need

• You are passionate about helping to assure high quality software.
• You want to work in an agile way.
• You appreciate test engineering best practice.
• Knowledge on current automation trends/tooling, with domain expertise to improve & build our current automation suite and our speed to market.
• Experience implementing a Playwright / Typescript framework with hands-on experience designing and executing tests.
• You are aware of non-functional as well as the functional aspects of quality.
• Experience of Defect Management, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis and/or Config Management working with multiple JIRA boards & different status would be advantageous.
• You have effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas to others.

Don't worry if you don't tick all these boxes; we're open minded and keen to invest in enthusiastic and positive people.

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.