Quality Engineer (9 month Fixed Term Contract)

We have an exciting opportunity to join our team!

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 that helps Britain prosper. This is a great time to be joining the team 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.

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! 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.

With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.