Senior Quality Engineer

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Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer
Business Unit: CIO, Digital Solutions
Salary:Starting from £39,689 - £51,000 per annum DOE
Location: UK, Flexible
Contract Type: Permanent

In our quest to make things better, we never stop looking at how every bit of banking works. We sweat the small stuff, because we know it makes a big difference for our customers. But at the heart of this are our people – who we couldn’t do without. Our bold and brilliant colleagues who bring their A game every single day. The question is – are you ready to bring yours?

In Digital Solutions we are proud that we are the team which deliver the digital capabilities that enable our customers to engage with their finances when and how they want to. We deliver across web and mobile channels across a range of technologies. Being digital and on the go has never been so important – We love what we do and it’s truly an exciting time to join the team!

We’re looking for someone ambitious who of course loves the techy side of being a technologist but also someone who cares about delivering engaging customer experiences.

We believe in collaboration, with Agile at the heart of everything we do. We aren’t perfect (who is?) so we iterate and improve as we go. We are looking for people who can, not only help us continue to disrupt the banking sector but also how we become better at what we do!

We are looking for a best in class Senior Quality Automation Engineer who will provide expertise and knowledge to develop and execute exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality. You’ll work alongside/embedded within the tribes/squads to drive test automation and framework(s) that complement the development approach. In this exciting new role, you’ll work collaboratively with the delivery team to review and input to requirements, specifications and technical design documents, estimate, prioritise, plan and coordinate testing activities within the team. Interested, keep reading to find out more and apply!

Day To Day You’ll Be

• Using your strong understanding of quality frameworks such as TDD and BDD as well as your experience with automation principles and toolsets such as Selenium, Cucumber, cloud based and performance test tools, continuous integration tools, service virtualization and Jira to help us delight our colleagues and customers.
• Developing and executing exploratory and automated tests to ensure product quality
• Working collaboratively with the delivery team to review and input to requirements, specifications and technical design documents, estimate, prioritise, plan and coordinate testing activities within the team
• Leading and mentoring colleagues within our Squads and tribes ensuring the appropriate development and coaching is in place to ensure the team is successful across Digital and CIO.
• Working with engineering leads; product owners and other competency chapter leads to understand the CIO & tribe priorities; working as a team you will facilitate the best solution and help prioritise the backlog for the tribe which will demonstrate the most relevance for our colleagues and customers.
• Feeding into overall delivery estimate, design, develop and execute automation scripts using open source tools as much as possible, develop and apply testing processes for new and existing products to meet stakeholder needs, track quality assurance metric
• Proactively identifying technical impediments, working directly to resolve.
• Working with tribe members to support and educate on quality first principles, whilst facilitating CI/CD.
  

To be brilliant you’ll need to bring and be…

• SME knowledge and significant practical experience in Test Automation and setting up frameworks on multiple application types and platforms: Web, Microservice/API & Mobile apps
• In depth knowledge and experience as well as a proven track record of implementing testing fundamentals such as TDD, BDD and Scrum
• Hands-on experience with Cucumber & Gherkin
• Previous Experience of working in an agile environment with at least foundational experience of digital infrastructure, configuration management, continuous integration & automated software releases.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of user acceptance testing
• Experience in shifting NFT left, this includes performance, Security, Accessibility and Compatibility
• Previous experience of automated software releases, configuration management and system management in a high availability cloud environment; Containerization experience highly desirable
• Experience working with build tools like maven or gradle as well as compatibility testing tools (ideally Browserstack)
• Deep knowledge and insights into testing best practices and implementation of unit, functional, integration, regression, tooling and frameworks covering functional requirements.
• Competent in working as a part of a Scrum team, in shaping User Stories and identifying acceptance criteria and key test scenarios
• Skilled in automating functional testing in sprint and maintaining automated regression packages
• Proficient in applying industry best practices, fostering knowledge sharing to provide solutions for complex business problems.
• A proven track record of working with cross-functional delivery squads working with product owners, solution engineers, solution architects and other Quality Engineers
• Proven ability to produce and automate appropriate test artefacts i.e. test plans, approaches, summary reports
• Overall, your attitude and approach are as important as the experience and skills that you will bring
  
  

We’d Love It If You Had

• Computer Science and/or Engineering degrees (or equivalent practical experience) are preferred while other degree subjects may be considered
• Highly effective communication skills working with all levels of the organization
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
• Problem solving ability
• Relentless focus on delivering business value through sound engineering methods and principles
  

We really need you to have the skills and experience listed in the "to be brilliant you’ll need to bring and be"?section above, but the final section is?just our wish list, so please don’t let that put you off applying, we’d love to hear from you!?

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