Lead Quality Engineer

LLoyds Banking Group
End Date
Friday 23 June 2023

Salary Range
£85,255 – £100,300

We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

Agile Working Options
Flexibility in when hours are worked

Job Description Summary
Experienced Lead or Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description

Are you an experienced Lead or Senior Quality Engineer and looking for an opportunity to play an integral role in building the future of Embark? Do you want to build your leadership skills as part of a great team? Then read on to find out more about our exciting vacancy.

The Business area:

Embark joined LBG in January 2022 with its mission to deliver a market leading, modern and self-managed investment offering that can be offered to LBG customers. The first direct to customer investment product was launched late Feb 2023 and is the first of an exciting roadmap of new products and existing product feature enhancements. Embark will also enable LBG to reinvigorate and enhance our intermediary proposition under Scottish Widows and grow this sector alongside the existing Embark white label propositions. Through investment in modern digital technology we will improve advisor experience and make it easier for them to do business with us.

About the role:

We’re looking to recruit a Lead Quality Engineer to play a key role in developing and building our capability in Quality Engineering, focussing mainly on the non-functional side of testing but able to partner with the functional test manager and cover for each other as a leadership team. As well as leading Quality Engineering delivery across projects, programmes & agile methodology, you ll also lead our Non-Functional team / suppliers.

We re looking for someone with a strong desire, and the capability, to deliver a highly effective service for Embark and adopt/achieve shared goals. 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 great!

What follows is what you might find our Lead Quality Engineer mostly doing, but your experience will flex depending on the team s needs, and your own aspirations. Our objective is to grow and create an environment where you can do what you enjoy.

Here s how you ll make a difference:

• Form part of the senior test management team supporting core FNZ platform delivery alongside digital UI/UX
• Define the test Non-Functional strategy and implement solutions focused on increasing the pace of change
• Support functional testing when required (e.g. holiday cover for Functional test list)
• Lead a team/suppliers, providing a full suite of Non-Functional services Embark and be responsible for achieving incremental improvements, proactive identification and alerting of issues, self-management/healing, and effective management information to support future investments
• You’ll input into the decision-making on how funds are spent, investments are made, and colleagues recruited to deliver maximum value
• Be a trusted advisor, utilising your technical knowledge and experience to support teams to define their test strategy
• Have strong experience of a Test First approach coupled with a Continuous Automation delivery method , to maximise speed and assurance of delivery
• Lead a team of Engineers supporting their personal skills development to ensure they are highly effective, motivated, and develop emerging technical skills to support new initiatives
• Be a strong advocate of the Quality Engineering Chapter/Guild, demonstrating leadership and fostering engagement across the Payments Services Platform Quality Engineering Community

What we need from you:

• Strong Quality Engineering background and understanding of agile and non-agile development practices; automated builds, continuous integration, code quality metrics, configuration management, etc.
• Operational Risk Management experience
• Understanding of Cyber Security expectations
• Experience in providing Quality Engineering oversight, technical leadership and setting the direction
• Experience in following: (Prav to complete with skills he needs)
• Performance Center / Loadrunner – Enterprise script creation, test execution and high level transactional monitoring
• CA DevTest – Virtual servicing
• Jmeter – Script Creation
• Dynatrace – Infrastructure and Application Performance monitoring
• Postman – Script / Connectivity testing
• Software as a Service offerings
• Experience across the entire development lifecycle from inception, through build to production
• Ability to develop colleagues through stretching technical and personal development plans
• Passion for coaching other software and quality engineers whilst building a strong team culture

What we offer you in return

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that s enriching and full of opportunity.

We ll provide you with continuous training and development opportunities and regular career development conversations to help you fulfil your career potential, whatever your aspirations might be.

You’ll also receive a package that includes

• Discretionary bonus
• Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension, where we’ll give up to a max of 15%
• Share plans
• 30 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays

Location: Whilst advertised as Edinburgh based, this role can be flexible to include Leeds, Halifax, Bristol and London

We’re currently moving to a hybrid way of working. Colleagues will still be working from home and will travel into the office when it improves the outcome, therefore it is preferable that colleagues live within commuting distance to this office.

We promote an inclusive, diverse, and nurturing culture – it’s one of the many things our colleagues love about working with us. We encourage colleagues to be flexible in their ways of working, so you can balance your personal commitments with the needs of the business.

We’d also like to reassure applicants that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the interview process, to perform job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we d love to hear from you

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.