Quality Engineer

Location

Dundee | United Kingdom

Job description

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer

SALARY: £66,861 - £74,290

LOCATION(S): Dundee

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Dundee office.

Our team

We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help! We've an exciting opportunity for you to join our team as a Quality Engineer and play a leading role in helping to grow our Wealth and Pensions business. You'd be helping us bring together the strengths of Lloyds Banking Group with one of the UK's fastest growing financial services businesses and one of the leading retirement solutions providers in the UK - Embark Group. We're looking to bring a keen focus to our wealth and investment product offerings to help our customers achieve their financial goals. Through our acquisition of Embark, we'll seek to improve how we serve and support our customers through modern.

Core purpose of the role

We're looking to recruit a Lead Quality Engineer to play a key role in developing and building our capability in Quality Engineering, focussing mainly on the non-functional side of testing but able to partner with the functional test manager and cover for each other as a leadership team. As well as leading Quality Engineering delivery across projects, programmes & agile methodology, you'll also lead our Non-Functional team / suppliers.

We're looking for someone with a strong desire, and the capability, to deliver a highly effective service for Embark and adopt/achieve shared goals. We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you great!

What follows is what you might find our Lead Quality Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team's needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

What you'll be involved in:

• Form part of the senior test management team supporting core FNZ platform delivery alongside digital UI/UX
• Define the test Non-Functional strategy and implement solutions focused on increasing the pace of change
• Support functional testing when required (e.g. holiday cover for Functional test list)
• Lead a team/suppliers, providing a full suite of Non-Functional services Embark and be responsible for achieving incremental improvements, proactive identification and alerting of issues, self-management/healing, and effective management information to support future investments
• You'll input into the decision-making on how funds are spent, investments are made, and colleagues recruited to deliver maximum value
• Be a trusted advisor, utilising your technical knowledge and experience to support teams to define their test strategy
• Have strong experience of a Test First approach coupled with a "Continuous Automation delivery method", to maximise speed and assurance of delivery
• Lead a team of Engineers supporting their personal skills development to ensure they are highly effective, motivated, and develop emerging technical skills to support new initiatives
• Be a strong advocate of the Quality Engineering Chapter/Guild, demonstrating leadership and fostering engagement across the Payments Services Platform Quality Engineering Community

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong Quality Engineering background and understanding of agile and non-agile development practices; automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration management, etc.
• Operational Risk Management experience
• Understanding of Cyber Security expectations
• Experience in providing Quality Engineering oversight, technical leadership and setting the direction
• Experience in following: (Prav to complete with skills he needs)
• Performance Center / Loadrunner - Enterprise script creation, test execution and high level transactional monitoring
• CA DevTest - Virtual servicing
• Jmeter - Script Creation
• Dynatrace - Infrastructure and Application Performance monitoring
• Postman - Script / Connectivity testing
• Software as a Service offerings
• Experience across the entire development lifecycle from inception, through build to production
• Ability to develop colleagues through stretching technical and personal development plans
• Passion for coaching other software and quality engineers whilst building a strong team culture

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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 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. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.

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

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.

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Salary

£66.86k - £74.29k per annum