Senior Quality Engineer

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

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 to £78,810

LOCATION(S): Haliax or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.

About this opportunity

The Engineering Platform team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group. You'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations, maximizing the use of shared tools and technology across our entire organisation. This is an extraordinary opportunity to shape how we evolve across the group!

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll be crucial to our work to enable Engineers across LBG to have the right tools and frameworks to succeed in shipping our products quicker and effectively. You will build a capability that enables Engineers to self-service their testing needs with full test automation.

Your solution will be consumed across our entire group, so this is a great opportunity to influence how we deliver and build your internal network.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey, and there couldn't 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

• Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code

• Experienced in a range of Testing Tools

• In a leadership role with a passion for mentoring and coaching people in a "player-coach" model

• Be adaptable, including working alongside the other teams within QECoE

• Be an industry leader promoting Quality Engineering at LBG across the external industry

• You will have excellent influencing skills and the ability to work well with stakeholders

• Hands-on experience of using modern technologies e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Github, Backstage, and Harness

• Experience in building tooling solutions to support engineers in adopting new ways of working

• Knowledge across the entire Test Lifecycle including Quality Engineering, Test Data, and Test Environments

In addition, any experience of these would be useful

• Understanding and awareness of our architecture and test environments

• Appreciation of quality engineering and its approach in LBG

• Experience working with and building CI/CD pipelines

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 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

• 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!