Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title: Quality Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.

About us 

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 this opportunity 

Exciting opportunity for a Quality Engineer to join our Commercial Lending Platform and be accountable for delivery or Quality Engineering across lab/PT as part of a multi-skilled feature team, collaborating to ensure quality & customer requirements are met when developing products. 

This role sits within our Working Capital Asset & Invoice Finance Lab, within the Commercial Lending Platform, where we're building solutions with modern, innovative technology. We work together on key initiatives to deliver value at pace by designing services that colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use.

What you’ll do 

• Software Testing – Drives advanced software testing techniques using experience to apply test approaches such as risk based testing where appropriate and communicate the approach used clearly so that stakeholders understand any risk associated with the test approach used 

• Software Development using automation framework – Develop robust automation suites in Java/Typescript using the defined LBG automation framework, able to solve complex framework issues, and extend existing frameworks when required 

• DevOps – Able to incorporate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline.  Inspect and compare branches containing automation code , rolling back o previous branch id issue seen 

• Automation Test Strategy – Applies the Automation Test Strategy to the applications under test in the feature team they are working on 

• Perform exploratory testing and mentor other colleagues in the best practise to ensure product is fit for purpose 

• Design & execute different types of complex Non-Functional testing as part of  product development based on Non-Functional Requirements  

• Create, execute and report test cases via and API, using the defined LBG test management system 

• Mentor QE’s on test environment provisioning and test data creation / useage 

• Create or accurately request complex test data, taking into account referential integrity and metadata 

What you’ll need

• Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.
• Experience in creating UI and API automated tests using automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium or equivalent.
• Be highly competent in one of the following languages: Java, Javascript, or equivalent.
• CI/CD experience e.g. GIT Hub, Jenkins, Harness.
• Agile experience and experience of working with Jira and Confluence.
• Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.

It would be great if you also had

• Performance Testing using tools such as Load Runner, JMeter or equivalent.
• Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as OCP, AWS, GCP or Azure.
• Security testing using tools such as Burp suite, Zap or equivalent.

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%.
• 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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!