Senior Quality Engineer
| Posting date: | 19 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,929 to £78,810 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 July 2025 |
| Location: | Chester, Cheshire, CH4 9FB |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 135623_1750326048 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Senior Quality Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810
LOCATION: Chester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Chester office location
About this opportunity
Would you like to be part of the next phase in our transformation? We're moving into streaming of data and cloud technologies, underpinned to meet data needs and our team. We're at the heart of our Group wide change.
This role sits within our Loans and Affordability Platform, where we're building solutions with modern, innovative technology, including GCP. We work together on key initiatives to deliver value at pace by crafting services that colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging to use.
As a Senior Quality Engineer, you'll be making a real difference, as you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team. Your primary responsibilities will include:
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Collaborating with Product Owners, Designers, Engineers, and DevOps Teams to redefine design, functionality, features, and experiments.
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Driving transformation in quality engineering and playing a key role in delivering quality software solutions into production.
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Participating in Communities of Practice, Guilds, and improvement working groups.
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Mentoring other members in the team including junior engineers and partner resources.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you'll need:
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Proven experience as an accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.
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Experience in crafting UI and API automated tests using automation tools such as Playwright (preferably) or equivalent and understanding of BDD framework with Cucumber.
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High competence in one of the following languages: Typescript, Javascript, or equivalent.
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Agile experience and familiarity with working with Jira and Confluence.
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Clear communication skills, both written and verbal, with experience in communicating with business partners.
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A collaborative approach with the ability to work well in a team and a willingness to enhance your knowledge and experience.
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A growth mindset with a keen desire to learn and develop further.
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Comfort with participating in workshops.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
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Performance Testing using tools such as Load Runner, K6, JMeter, or equivalent.
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Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as GCP.
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CI/CD experience e.g. GIT Hub, Jenkins.
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Security testing using tools such as Burp suite, Zap, or equivalent.
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
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A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
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An annual performance-related bonus
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Share schemes including free shares
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Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
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30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
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A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme