Non-Functional Testing Lead

End Date
Friday 01 March 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £75,780
We support agile working - click here for more information on agile working options.
Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
We're on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it and we are looking for a Non-Functional Testing Lead to join our team.
Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our approach are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Halifax, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, and Scottish Widows (among others).
Our flat teams will encourage and empower you to make decisions, build positive relationships, and deliver a meaningful difference to our customers, colleagues, and communities.
Our mentors will nurture your talent and encourage you to further develop yourself and your career.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer (Non-Functional Testing Lead)
SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!
We are seeking a skilled and expert Non-Functional Testing Lead to join our diverse team who operate in an Agile project environment, within our product labs .
Driving transformation in quality engineering, play a key role in leading Non-Functional Testing , crafting and implementing the Test strategy and delivering quality software solutions into production, understand the importance of testing and the Quality Framework within LBG, educate other change disciplines and driving agile adoption, in teams as part of the broader engineering community from cultural aspects of agile to adoption of collaboration tools.
Be a driving force within a team helping to renew our legacy technology applications onto a more modern architecture. Integrating new cloud technology into legacy systems.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, constantly evolving business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need

• Able to demonstrate your leadership, coaching and mentoring more junior Engineers to create a highly effective testing capability and ability to collaborate and contribute to wider initiatives whilst working independently to deliver core tasks.
  
• Experience, and good understanding of, building efficient and effective testing process and practices (both functional and non-functional) .
  
• Ability to develop and demonstrate Non-functional Test strategy for complex systems .
  
• In-depth knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., OCP, GCP, Azure) and associated services .
  
• Expertise in Load Testing, Stress, Soak, Endurance, availability, capacity, and Failover (Software & Hardware) testing .
  
• Experience analysing performance test results and evaluating/troubleshooting performance bottlenecks across of distributed multi-tier architecture, Mongo DB systems including:
  
  • Thread / Heap Dump Analysis
  • JVM monitoring & Tuning
  • Proven experience with one or more of the following monitoring tools:
  • Splunk
  • Dynatrace

• Expertise in designing, building, and executing performance tests using the following tools:
  
  • HP Performance Centre and HP Load Runner
  • JMeter and Gatling beneficial
  • Proficient developing tests using programming languages like Unix shell scripting, Javascript or Python or Java etc.

• Experience successfully testing server/client-side applications/services/cloud hosted applications including:
  
  • SOAP APIs, REST APIs, Graph APIs
  • Web and Mobile app Presentation layers
  • Kafka Topics
  • Ability to articulate performance issues, risks, bottlenecks, and socialise the performance vision and high-level solution including workload details

• Experience in other non-functional testing areas Security, Accessibility Testing, Compatibility testing, Disaster recovery testing and Operational Acceptance testing techniques.
  
• Previous experience with DevOps practices and tools.
  

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 exciting 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.