Senior Quality Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Halifax; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to drive software testing and automation. This role involves developing automation suites using Python and collaborating within multi-skilled teams in a hybrid environment. Candidates should have experience with various testing frameworks and automation tools. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £78,810 and benefits including a pension scheme and annual bonus.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience with automation testing and frameworks.
• Strong proficiency in Python, Java, and Typescript.
• Experience in exploratory and non-functional testing.

Responsibilities

• Drive advanced software testing techniques.
• Develop robust automation suites.
• Incorporate automated tests into CI/CD pipeline.

Skills

Automation frameworks

Selenium

Python

Java

Agile tools

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Jira

Git

Docker

Job description

Overview

JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer

SALARY: £70,929-£78,810 pa

LOCATIONS: Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh & Bristol

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid - 40% (or two days) in one of our office locations above.

About Us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About This Opportunity

Are you a Quality Engineer looking for your next role? We've got some exciting opportunities for Quality Engineers to join across multiple platforms.

Every day will bring something new. In these roles, you'll get to:

• Drive advanced software testing techniques using experience to apply test approaches such as risk based testing
• Develop robust automation suites in Java/Typescript/Python using the defined LBG automation framework, solve complex framework issues, and extend existing frameworks when required
• Incorporate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline.
• Apply the Automation Test Strategy to the applications under test
• Perform exploratory testing
• Design & execute different types of complex Non-Functional testing
• Create, execute and report test cases via an API, using the defined LBG test management system
• Mentor colleagues
• Create or accurately request complex test data, taking into account referential integrity and metadata

What We're Looking For

We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you have experience in the following areas, we'd love to hear from you:

Testing & Quality Assurance

• Building and maintaining automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Pytest, JUnit, Appium, RestAssured)
• Exploratory, functional and non-functional, and accessibility testing (performance, security, etc.)
• Creating, executing, and reporting test cases using tools like Xray
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Managing test data and environments

Programming & Tools

• Strong programming proficiency in Python, Typescript & Java and/or REST API development and microservice Architectures and React, NodeJS or PLSQL
• Experience with Agile tools (Jira, Confluence)
• Source code management (Git, GitHub)

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Mentoring and knowledge sharing within multi-skilled teams
• Driving process improvements and adopting a continuous learning mindset

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Cloud experience (preferably GCP) including tools such as Composer, Dataflow, BigQuery, Harness, Docker.

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.

Benefits

• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!