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JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity
This is an excellent opportunity for a Senior Quality Engineer in the Customer Waterfront Lab to help us expand our Scottish Widows Digital Platform working across mobile and web applications.

As member of an end to end feature team you will contribute to and improve the behaviour-driven development expertise across the team, ensuring we have a consistent and successful approach to testing and quality. You will achieve this via test automation frameworks as well as manual testing. This covers functional, accessibility, security, compatibility and performance testing to group standards, as well as using metrics and customer study to help present a fabulous experience.

Day-to-day work will include:

• Design and build diligent, maintainable and modular automation frameworks/suites.
• Complete exploratory, functional, accessibility, security, compatibility and performance testing alongside automated testing.
• Develop and extend frameworks, templates and guidelines for developing test scripts.
• Write detailed Test Plans and End of Test Reports, evidencing the quality of the software we ship.
• 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.

About us

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

• A solid understanding of react.js /microservices / NodeJS / BDD Best Practice
• Experience of using automated testing tools (e.g. Newman, Playwright, BurpSuite, Performance Center)
• Previous experience that has given you an understanding of programming principles and standard methodology, e.g. for crafting re-usable, modular and sophisticated code.
• You're excited by DevOps tooling for the execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, GitHub, Docker.
• Ability to work without supervision and offer mentorship and leadership to others.
• Working with modern Agile practices is something that motivates and excites you
• Excited to be part of a large transformation to Cloud journey

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.

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

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.