Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Quality Engineer

SALARY: £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our office in Leeds.

About this opportunity…

We believe that people don't always fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you unique! We're looking to recruit a Quality Engineer to work within a highly proficient and productive engineering team instilled with a team ethos of testing and delivering high quality solutions for the bank and its customers.

In Quality Engineering you will work to deliver customer driven testing solutions and quality software to take on business problems and realise value to customers through excellence in execution. You will do this by implementing the right level of Quality Engineering principles and artefacts across all testing types through Agile testing with an ‘Automation First’ approach.

In the Economic Crime Prevention (ECP) Platform, our mission is to reduce harm to our communities by enhancing the Group's capability to prevent, detect and respond to economic crime. The ECP Platform sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in providing services across the whole Group.

About us…

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you! 

Here’s how you’ll make a difference:

• You’ll work in an Agile fashion with colleagues from different fields to plan and execute highly effective testing to ensure excellent delivery quality to colleagues and customers.

• You’ll exercise your “T-Shape” capabilities to develop and further improve the expansion of our Test Automation framework to deliver quality testing in a rapid execution timeline.

• You’ll be part of the Quality Engineering community to learn and grow individually but also working with others to help the community improve.

• You’ll work collaboratively with the Product Owner as well as Engineers, Business Analysts and Scrum Masters to help building the feature team capability.

• Security is at the heart of everything we do at LBG and our Engineers contribute to building a secure culture. It’ll feature as a key part of your role - having a secure mindset to provide strong and resilient business solutions that safeguard our business and customers from security threats.

What we need from you:

• You’ll have experience in Quality Engineering, preferably (but not necessarily) knowledge in application set. If not, then experience with testing and integration or introduction of 3rd Party packages/tools.

• You’ll have experience in a collaborative environment, preferably with a proven track record delivering business value through well-rounded engineering methods and principles.

• You’ll have experience in agile, DevOps and non-agile quality engineering practices and automated testing, functional and non-functional coverage as well as documentation and defect management.

• You’ll have technical and practical usage skills in Java, Jenkins, BDD Cucumber, UI/Presentation layer & Jira/Confluence.

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’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace and believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation and creativity.

We’re actively seeking to build a team that reflects a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and thinking approaches and would like to encourage applications from under-represented groups from candidates of all ethnicities, cultures and identities, and from candidates that identify as neurodiverse.

As a disability-confident employer, we are committed to support you in showcasing your best self; 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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!