Senior Quality Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Halifax; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Lloyds Bank as a Senior Quality Engineer and contribute to exciting transformation projects in the financial sector. This role offers opportunities to work with cutting-edge technologies, including AI and cloud solutions, while collaborating with diverse teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. You'll benefit from a flexible working environment, a generous benefits package, and be part of a team committed to making a positive impact in the banking sector.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Benefits tailored to your lifestyle

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Test Automation Engineer with strong background in automation frameworks.
• Knowledge of testing AI and developing automated tests in UI and API environments.
• Comfortable with agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance design, functionality, and features.
• Transform quality engineering processes and ensure high-quality software solutions.
• Coach junior engineers and participate in improvement working groups.

Skills

Test Automation Engineering

AI and Machine Learning

UI and API testing

Communication

Collaboration

Growth Mindset

Tools

Playwright

Jira

Confluence

Load Runner

Docker

Jenkins

Job description

End Date
Wednesday 25 June 2025

Salary Range
£70,929 - £78,810

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

Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £ 78,810

LOCATION: Halifax

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 Halifax office location

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 Strategic Enablement 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.

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:

• 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 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, 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

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.