Quality Engineer

You will work with other Quality Engineers to develop their skills and experience, providing support, mentoring and coaching to ensure the future of engineering within LBG is strong.

Joining us as an experienced Quality Engineer, you'll use your technical skills to support the delivery of quality software solutions into production. You'll be continually challenged, motivated, mentored and supported to develop your skills and bring forward the best solutions to conduct effective testing. An ideal Quality Engineer will be technically literate, experienced in automated and manual testing processes, keen to learn, able to communicate well, with an interest in ensuring quality services are delivered for customers and colleagues. A willingness to get stuck in and learn on the job is essential.,

• Experience of creating and implementing Quality Engineering strategies and plans with an Automation First approach
• Cloud experience and a willingness to work towards Cloud accreditation (GCP, Azure or IBM/Kyndryl)
• Strong Quality Engineering, NFT, Performance Engineering skills
• Good knowledge of Test Data provisioning and management and co-ordinating test Environments
• Experience of programming languages including Groovy, Python, Bash, Powershell, JavaScript, Java, SQL/noSQL, and/or Unix Shell and a willingness to develop these and other skills
• Experience of implementing DevOps principles (CI/CD) and using tools including Jenkins, Git, SonarQube
• Experience with toolsets such as Selenium, Cucumber, Perfecto, UFT, Appiu, Saucelabs
• Strong skills on Jira, Confluence, Xray and ALM
• Experience of containerisation including Docker and Google Kubernetes
• Experience of Defect Management, Incident Management, Root Cause Analysis and/or Config Management would be advantageous
• ISTQB Foundation Certification and Advanced Certification (or willingness to work towards Advanced certification)
Change Delivery and Non-Technical:
• Strong Organisational Awareness
• Experience of change methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
• Team Management skills
• Coaching and Mentoring skills
• Logical and creative thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build working relationships
• Enthusiasm to learn and develop as a "hands on" Quality Engineer
  
  CIO Enabling Services provides Test Environment Services to deliver and continuously improve test environment engineering through innovation and automation, driving excellence in test environments and test data provisioning. Supporting the whole of LBG with an expertise in Major Programmes, our team provides end to end testing environments using both physical and cloud-based solutions. With an eye on virtualisation and self-service the team is developing a range of service offerings to help speed up provisioning of environments to support fast paced change., 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.

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 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