Senior Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer LOCATION: Edinburgh, Leeds SALARY: £70,929 - £86,691 pa HOURS: 35 hours per week (full time) WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, at least two days (40%) in the office ABOUT US Lloyds Banking Group is on an exciting transformation journey, making investments in our people, data, technology and tools. Our continued commitment means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. This provides plenty of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Day-to-day the focus is on being inclusive, being bold and building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity. We want our people to feel that they belong and be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY A permanent position for a Senior Engineer to join the IP&I Protection Platform, working in inclusive and autonomous feature teams, driving engineering excellence and working together to provide seamless journeys for our users, helping customers protect what matters most - you and your family's health. The Protection Platform has several feature teams that follow Agile Delivery where we incrementally design, build/test and release Life and Critical Illness products on journeys across several channels in the market. These include Mobile Banking, Public Site, Mortgage and Intermediary. We are looking for a T‑shaped engineer with experience in both software development and testing. This role blends leadership and hands‑on experience. You'll be expected to use your experience to apply Software and Quality Engineering principles and practices to shape and drive our testing strategy. We have an Engineering family that includes expertise across Software Development, DevOps, Infrasturcture and Quality Engineering. We provide opportunity to expand skills as our aim is for T‑shaped Engineers who are responsible for all the technical aspects of our Products. If you build it, you release it, and you own it - an exciting move to owning our changes and ensuring quality and stable services to our users. Here's how you'll make a difference: Having excellent understanding of Agile Software Development and supporting continuous improvements in your team. Using your experience to apply Software Development and Quality Engineering Principles and Practices to make continuous improvements. Championing and coach testing to ensure quality remains with pace of delivery. Experience mentoring peers and juniors engineers. Ensuring testing builds from Unit, and Test Coverage is optimum (risk based) and distributed cleanly across the necessary Test Types. Being part of a Feature Team who take responsibility for their delivery, through owning Design, Build, Testing, Releases and Monitoring. Collaborating with Engineers, Product Owners, Customer Journey Managers, and being part of an autonomous feature team, responsible for delivering priority features. WHAT YOU'LL NEED We like people who come from a diverse group of backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team. As a minimum to be considered, we'll need to see evidence for several of the following on your CV: Software Development Writing clean, modular and maintainable code and tests with efficient and maintainable automated testing in CI/CD pipelines. Experience with React, NodeJS and PLSQL. Understanding of web development principles including REST API development, React front end development and microservice architectures Testing & Automation Hands on experience of Functional and Non‑Functional Test Types, including; Unit/Functional, API Integration, End‑to‑End, Accessibility, Security, Compatibility and Performance. Experience with Playwright, RestAssured, LoadRunner Enterprise, Axe, BurpSuitePro/ZAP, Compatibility‑based tools. Confidence with building, testing and deploying services into a cloud environment. A good understanding of Git, source code management and managing change. Mentoring, collaboration & communication Demonstrated experience collaborating with Product and Design colleagues to drive suitable solution designs and suitable approach to testing. Reviewing colleagues work and providing feedback in a constructive way. Effective communication skills and can clearly present ideas, provide direction, and discuss risks. Agile Tools Experience in creating test plans and test reports, using Jira and Xray for test capture and execution. And any experience of these would be really useful: Experience with NestJS, Kubernetes and Docker. Experience leading a team of engineers (not managing). Experience building/maintaining CICD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness etc). Familiarity with GCP. 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 join an amazing team, that's interesting and makes a difference to many people, and supports personal growth, apply today. #J-18808-Ljbffr