Agile Working Options

Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

Job Description Summary

Drives quality throughout the change lifecycle working in a cross-disciplinary team. Undertakes & manages testing of more complex code changes across multiple types of testing to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise.

Job Description

Our lab, "Engage Me", is looking for Quality Engineers to help us update and foster our recently launched native Mobile App.

As a Quality Engineer in the Mobile App team, you'll be responsible for the quality assurance of our mobile app code base. Your focus will be to contribute to and improve the BDD expertise across the team, ensuring we have a consistent and successful approach to testing and quality.

This will be achieved via test automation frameworks as well as manual testing. This covers functional, accessibility, security and performance testing to group standards, as well as using metrics and customer study to help present a fabulous experience the helps Britain Prosper. As a member of an end-to-end feature team working in an Agile Environment you'll collaborate closely with fellow Quality and Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Architects and Product Owners to design sophisticated solutions and elegant tests to prove them, helping us deliver the best software we can.

Your responsibilities and day-to-day work will include:

• Design and build diligent, maintainable and modular automation frameworks/suites.

• Complete exploratory functional and accessibility 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.

We hope that you'll apply if:

• You intimately understand Mobile (iOS/Android) / NodeJS / BDD Best Practice.

• You're able to work without supervision and offer mentorship and leadership to others.

• Using automated testing tools (such as Appium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, RestAssured, Perfecto, Selenium) doesn't phase you.

• Performance Testing using tools such as Performance Centre / Load Runner etc are familiar to you.

• Your experience has given you an understanding of programming principles and standard methodology, e.g. for crafting re-usable, modular and sophisticated code.

• Reviewing colleague's work and providing feedback to others in a constructive and positive way is something you enjoy.

• You're excited by DevOps tooling for the execution of automation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, GitHub Enterprise/GitLab, Docker.

• The opportunity to help an extensive and very well established business transform from a traditional waterfall environment to modern Agile is something that motivates and excites you!

• You have effective communication skills, and are able to clearly present ideas and provide direction to others.

Don’t worry if you don’t tick all these boxes; we’re open minded and keen to invest in enthusiastic and positive people!

We offer phenomenal packages including; private medical insurance, discretionary bonus, various share plans, a pension where we contribute up to 15%, 30 days holiday, plus 9 bank holidays and cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits, or simply take the cash. Our flexible work options mean your work/life balance can be preserved while fully-paid training and certification programmes ensure your skills remain fresh. This includes time off and support to help you gain them, e.g. helping to sit and pass your Google accredited Cloud Engineer exam.

We're an equal opportunities employer and are delighted to receive applications from people of all backgrounds to join our diverse team. If you have particular needs regarding working patterns, childcare, or anything else we can do to accommodate you, please don’t shy away from talking to us – we’re here to support you and develop your career and your happiness is of the utmost importance to us.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today; we’d love to hear from you...

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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'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.