Quality Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Edinburgh is seeking a Quality Engineer for a 9-month contract. You'll focus on quality assurance for their mobile app, contributing to testing strategies and automation frameworks. This role involves mentoring junior engineers in a collaborative Agile team environment. Competitive salary and benefits, including a generous pension contribution and 30 days holiday, make this a great opportunity.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven understanding of Mobile (iOS/Android) and BDD best practices.
• Ability to mentor and lead others, working without supervision.
• Experience in automated testing using industry-standard tools.
• Solid grasp of programming principles for creating modular code.
• Enjoys providing constructive feedback to colleagues.
• Excited about DevOps tooling related to automation tests.
• Experience with modern Agile methodologies.
• Interest in Cloud transformation initiatives.
• Excellent communication skills to present ideas successfully.

Responsibilities

• Design and build maintainable automation frameworks.
• Conduct exploratory functional and accessibility testing.
• Develop guidelines for writing test scripts.
• Understand and communicate test data requirements.
• Mentor junior engineers to foster collaboration.

Skills

Mobile (iOS/Android)

NodeJS

BDD Best Practice

Automated testing tools

DevOps tooling

Agile practices

Effective communication

Tools

Appium

WebDriverIO

Cucumber

Head Spin

GitHub Actions

GIT

Docker

Job description

Overview

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

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 our Edinburgh office location

About this opportunity

Our lab, "Digital Channel Servicing", is looking for a Quality Engineer to help us take our native Mobile App to the next level.

As a Quality Engineer in the Mobile App team, you'll be responsible for the quality assurance of our mobile app code base. Your focus will be to contribute to and improve the BDD expertise across the team, ensuring we have a consistent and successful approach to testing and quality.

This will be achieved via test automation frameworks as well as manual testing. This covers functional, accessibility and security testing to group standards, as well as using metrics and customer study to help present a fabulous experience the helps Britain Prosper. This is a great time to be joining the team and that is using the latest technologies. As a member of an end-to-end feature team working in an Agile Environment you'll collaborate closely with fellow Quality and Software Engineers to devise sophisticated solutions for engineering problems.

Your responsibilities

• Design and build diligent, maintainable, and modular automation frameworks/suites.

• Complete exploratory functional and accessibility testing alongside automated testing.

• Develop and extend frameworks, templates, and guidelines for developing test scripts.

• Understand and write the test data requirements, collaborating closely with the external teams across the Value Stream and beyond.

• Act as mentor to junior Engineers, encouraging our culture of collaboration and openness to thrive.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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

• You intimately understand Mobile (iOS/Android) / NodeJS / BDD Best Practice.

• You're able to work without supervision and offer mentorship and leadership to others.

• Using automated testing tools (such as Appium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Head Spin) doesn't faze you.

• Your experience has given you an understanding of programming principles and standard methodology, e.g. for crafting re-usable, modular and sophisticated code.

• Reviewing colleague's work and providing feedback to others in a constructive and positive way is something you enjoy.

• You're excited by DevOps tooling for the execution of automation tests such as GitHub Actions, GIT, Docker.

• Working with modern Agile practices is something that motivates and excites you!

• You are excited to be part of a large transformation to Cloud journey.

• You have effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas and provide direction to others.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package

• 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

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