Test Analyst

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End Date

Friday 08 December 2023Salary Range

£66,861 - £74,290

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Test Analyst – Automation

Salary : £66,861 - £74,290

Halifax

Full-time For many of our office based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

Core Platforms is on a journey to build the bank of the future and simplify our operational processes to help our customers with our Business Process Management. We lead, prioritise, and deliver change across the Group Transformation Teams.

In this role you’d be part of our CTO – Core Platforms team working within Lab Service, providing Quality Engineering guidance to one or more of our platform aligned teams.

You’ll Create Automated Test scripts, implementing and maintaining large test suites.

You’ll Look to automate testing where appropriate, update and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team.

You’ll Participate in Communities of Practice, Guilds and improvement working groups & share learning to members of your team.

You’ll Support migration of test scripts from the existing framework into new our new CoE framework.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose

Who we are looking for?

Someone who thinks of the big picture! Always considering how our products and apps can support the business, quick to identify new opportunities.

A dynamic individual who is happy to take ownership of one of more customer journeys, gaining deep knowledge of the business challenges and helping to come up with innovative solutions.

You’ll work in a highly collaborative way, working closely with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers and partner resources.

You’re adaptable, able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing complex analytical, research advice, recommendations and using your own judgment.

You’ve a well-developed communication kit bag with extensive customer management experience and skilled in translating information from the business to IT and back.

A natural facilitator and decision-maker.

A skilled negotiator, analytical thinker and problem solver who will influence positively.

A natural leader who’ll mentor and support all colleagues particularly our more junior team-members.

Skills we’d need to see

• Solid Understanding of Test Analysis, methodologies and techniques
• Specific experience in Test Automation
• Strong UFT/VB coding knowledge and a proven ability to share this knowledge with less experienced staff.
• Experience in building and designing automation frameworks using UFT2022
• Experience in creation/migration of automation test cases based on manual test cases
• Proficient in Agile having used JIRA and Confluence
• Experience of applying Business driven design to Test Automation
• Strong ability to learn and pick-up new technologies with a curious and continuous improvement mindset.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

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.

And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We’re disability confident. 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
• 30 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

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.

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