Quality Engineer, Mobile

Description:

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to help Britain prosperand become the best bank for customers. As part of this we're transforming ourdigital capability, providing customers with simpler, seamless interactions acrossonline, mobile and branches.

Our Engage Me Lab is creating a Native Mobile App totransform current digital experience in the Pensions eco system by adding a newchannel to our existing channels, in order to meet Lloyds Banking Group'svision of becoming the best bank for customers. The feature teams within theScottish Widows Mobile App landscape will be building, integrating anddelivering new products / journeys to our customers.

As a Quality Engineer in Mobile, you'll be responsiblefor the quality assurance of our mobile app code base, your main focus will beto contribute and improve the BDD expertise across the team and ensure we havea consistent and best practice approach.

You'll do this by following the automation frameworkwhilst completing manual device testing in sprint: covering functional andaccessibility testing. You'll be aligned to a Feature Team but you'll work veryclosely with your fellow Quality Engineers within the Lab/Value Stream.

Working in an Agile Environment to deliver new mobileproducts to market, you'll be required to collaborate closely with fellowSoftware Engineers, Business Analysts, Architects and Product Owners to designelegant solutions and elegant tests to prove them.

We feel this would best suit a premier Quality Engineerwho has a passion for digital & experienced in Behaviour Driven Development(BDD).

Your responsibilities, accountabilities &deliverables will include:

Design and build dependable, intuitive, intelligentautomation frameworks that prevent rather than cure issues and alsoself-healing applications that nurture our frameworks and application code

Complete manual exploratory functional and accessibilitytesting alongside the automated testing

Develop and/or extend frameworks, templates andguidelines for developing test scripts

Work alongside team members to support them with problemsolving and best practices

Review and approve test scripts that have been developedby other team members

Provide training & coaching to Quality Engineers tofurther optimise test quality

Raise defects in various tools (including Jira and ALM)

Write detailed test plans and end of test report

Understand and write the test data requirements andliaise with the Test Data team

Act as mentor to more junior Quality Engineers

We hope that you'll apply if:

You have a deep understanding of Mobile (iOS/Android) /NodeJS / BDD Best Practice

You can work without supervision and provide mentorshipand leadership to others

You have expertise with automated testing tools (such asAppium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, RestAssured, Perfecto)

You are experienced in Performance Testing using toolssuch as Performance Centre / Load Runner etc.,

You bring a real passion for removing technical debt inevery way

You have an excellent understanding of programmingprinciples and best practice (e.g. for creating re-usable code, best practiceetc)

You're experienced reviewing colleague's work andproviding feedback to others

You're experienced in DevOps tooling for execution ofautomation tests such as Jenkins, GIT, GitHub Enterprise/GitLab, Docker.

You're experienced implementing a BDD frameworks in anagile environment

You have excellent communication skills, able to clearlypresent ideas and provide direction to others

You have a structured approach to problem solving and issueresolution

What skills and experience would be beneficial to have,but would not be essential for them to possess. Such as:

Mobile App Quality Engineer expertise

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellentbenefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching andfull of opportunity.

You'll also receive a package that includes:

- Discretionary bonus between 0 -30% of base pay

- Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety ofbenefits 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 bank holidays

With our breadth, reach and diversity, we can offerexcellent opportunities for career growth and development. And we're lookingfor people who can seize those opportunities; you'll get plenty of support butit's about taking the initiative, building relationships and making it happen.Do this and you can help us make a positive difference to our customers, ourcolleagues and our communities.

At LBG, we're invested in your continual development.That's why we've fostered a collaborative learning environment that supportsyour career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. Our inclusive cultureoffers you flexibility to try new things whilst helping you build the futureyou want.

We're also committed to employing a diverse and inclusiveworkforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve –where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

While the role would normally be based out of ourEdinburgh hub most of our Transformation colleagues are currently working fromhome and using collaboration tools to deliver key projects and innovativesolutions for our customers.

So if this sounds like a culture that you'd like to be apart of then be assured that we'll welcome your application.