Senior Software Test Engineer Full Time

Lloyds Banking Group

Benefits: base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We’re a family friendly organisation who focus on delivery, not time at your desk. A mature, flexible work environment, flexible start/finish hours, agile working practices. We care about your mental health and want to enable a good work-life balance.

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 20 million active online customers across our three main brands – including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland – as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. We’re building the bank of the future, and we need your help.

Where will this role sit?

In Intelligent Automation we are committed to the mission of automating the routine whilst supercharging our understanding, to deliver a seamless experience for our customers and colleagues. We’re a diverse group of people. Software Engineers, Robotics Specialists, Cognitive Developers, Data Scientists, Conversation Designers, Natural Language Engineers and many more. We come from a variety of backgrounds across the globe, but we all share in the vision of the untapped potential of human and machine intelligence.

Cognitive Natural Language systems are a channel that mimic human interaction to help scale and augment human expertise, bringing information to customers and colleagues in a timely, natural, and useable way – perfect in the shape of Virtual Assistant chat bots for Customer Service use cases. By pairing smart people with smart machines, we build conversational interfaces (text or voice) which not only assist our customers and colleagues but also undertake tasks for them. However, our aspirations and roadmap, are keen to take this proposition much further.

What you’ll do

What follows is what you might find yourself doing as a Test Engineer on a day-to-day basis, but your role can be flexible depending on the team’s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow T- and π-shaped people and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

• You’ll work within a diverse agile feature team supporting the quality engineering practices within the engineering teams.

• Help develop acceptance criteria for stories and write automated tests to verify them.

• You’ll work on JavaScript based automation frameworks within our lab.

• Identify how functional requirements can have an impact on the functional, and non-functional, parts of the system.

• Collaborating with different teams across the bank to support integrating with teams and services across the bank.

• Help us to build processes and practices to ensure we check them.

• You’ll share with and learn from our teams and the wider organisation to ensure our customers benefit from industry leading practices.

• Work with our Engineers building our Devops pipelines and help us deliver continuous integration.

• You’ll collaborate with the rest of the team to define testable acceptance criteria.

• You’ll implement automated tests using latest testing tools (Cucumber, Cypress).

• You’ll work with developers to communicate/fix/retest bugs identified during product testing and operation.

• You’ll integrate automated test packs into the continuous integration build pipe-line (Azure Devops).

• You’ll support product deployments into production environments.

Required Skills and Experience

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!

• As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated experience of:

• Some knowledge working in multi-discipline Agile teams.

• Some programming and scripting experience (ideally with JavaScript or TypeScript) and are willing to learn.

• Experience working with an established automation framework.

• You understand how APIs work and can use tools such as Postman to test.

• You understand programming principles such as engineering re-usable code and are familiar with coding standards.

• Some knowledge in DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests such as Azure Devops, Docker and GIT.

• A keen sense of curiosity in understanding how things work and the confidence to ask questions to challenge and confirm yours and others understanding.

What you I get in return?

We’re dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimise your potential.

As a new colleague, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st century bank that reflects modern Britain, and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel welcomed and valued.

We’re committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We’re an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

Together we make it possible!