Quality Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:  Edinburgh

HOURS: Full Time

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

About this opportunity

Our lab, "Digital Channel Servicing", is looking for a Quality Engineer to help us take our native Mobile App to the next level.

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 and security testing to group standards, as well as using metrics and customer study to help present a fabulous experience the helps Britain Prosper. This is a great time to be joining the team and that is using the latest technologies. 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 to devise sophisticated solutions for engineering problems.

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.

• 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.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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:

• 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, Head Spin) doesn't faze 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 GitHub Actions, GIT, Docker.

• Working with modern Agile practices is something that motivates and excites you!

• You are excited to be part of a large transformation to Cloud journey.

• You have effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas and provide direction to others.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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!