Quality Engineer Chapter Lead

End Date
Friday 16 February 2024
Salary Range
£85,255 - £100,300
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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
Drives quality throughout the change lifecycle whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their team. Sets the strategic direction & best practice for QE for the lab. Undertakes multiple types of testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise in hands-on test automation to modernise banking journeys.
They will be an advocate for Quality Engineering, providing a voice to Quality Engineers within the team, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling. In a leadership role with a passion for mentoring and coaching people in a "player-coach" model.
Looks to automate testing where appropriate, updating and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team, review the test code, development code to give feedback in improving the cycle time.
Job Description
Quality Engineer Chapter Lead
Location: Halifax
Salary: £85,255 - £100,300 DOE
Hours: Full - time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity:
Drives quality throughout the change lifecycle whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their team. Sets the strategic direction & best practice for QE for the lab. Undertakes multiple types of testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise in hands-on test automation to modernise banking journeys.
They will be an advocate for Quality Engineering, providing a voice to Quality Engineers within the team, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling. In a leadership role with a passion for mentoring and coaching people in a "player-coach" model.
Looks to automate testing where appropriate, updating and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team, review the test code, development code to give feedback in improving the cycle time.
What we're looking for...
You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.
What you’ll need -
We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing!
Key skills, knowledge and experience required to be successful in this role:

• Solid QE hands-on experience in automation, hands-on experience in shift left engineering using latest cutting-edge technology earlier in the life cycle and set code review best practices on BDD scripts with any programming language for 3+ years.
  
• Deep understanding of Java-script/ NodeJS / BDD Best Practices or alternatively strong hands-on with C# programming and capable of building the test framework from scratch
  
• Strong experience in UI automation testing using Playwright/Selenium, cucumber and Specflow and API automation using RestSharp or Playwright
  
• Deep understanding of non-functional testing techniques and strong hands-on with automating the non-functional tests.
  
• Good understanding of DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests in CI Tools such as Jenkins, Azure or GCP
  

Desirable knowledge, skills & experience:

• Excellent understanding of programming principles such as engineering re-usable code, best practices such as accessibility automation, early performance proving and hands-on DevSecOps are essential.
  
• Strong experience with reviewing colleague’s work and providing feedback to others and scale up Quality Engineering initiatives through industry accepted frameworks.
  
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly present ideas and provide direction to your team
  
• Extensive experience in problem solving and issue resolution by following key strategy principles in judgement, influence and drive the teams towards delivery
  

Why Lloyds Banking Group:
At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play a key role in helping to build a growing UK economy.
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
  

Are you excited by the thought of becoming part of our team and ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?
Apply today and find out more.
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.