Job Description

JOB TITLE: Test Engineer, NFT Testing (Non-Functional Testing)

SALARY: \xc2\xa345,054 - \xc2\xa355,066

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh of Halifax

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of your time, at our Edinburgh office (EH11 4EF) Or Halifax office (HX1 2RG)

About this opportunity

This is your chance to bring your experience of Non-Functional Testing to a bigger stage and help shape the world of finance for the future

The PSP Quality Engineering Cross Functions team is responsible for providing testing services across the Payments platform, from Dev through to Prod, including specialisms in SIT, NFT, and automation.

You can expect to be doing

• Collaborating with fellow Software Engineers, Business Analysts, Architects, Product Owners to design elegant performance test strategy
• Designing and building dependable, intuitive, intelligent performance test scripts, scenarios, and frameworks
• Developing and improving performance test integration in the CI/ CD pipelines
• Exploring new testing techniques, keeping up to date with industry changes
• Opportunity to cross skill into Functional Automation Testing, DevOps, and Development
• Lead and contribute to the Confluence Knowledge base to share new approaches and meet Definition of Ready/ Done artefacts
• Lead and contribute to the wider test engineering community through white papers and presentations
• Promoting the culture of SCRUM values and leading by example

We\'re on an exciting journey and there couldn\'t 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

We understand no one can be an expert in every aspect of Non-Functional Testing. However, if you have quality engineer automation experience, we\'d like to hear from you.

Specifically, we\'re looking for people who have:

• Considerable hands-on experience in performance test tools: LoadRunner, JMeter.
• Considerable hands-on experience with performance support tools, such as DevTest, Dynatrace, and similar.
• Can create performance automation scripts from scratch.
• Ability to analyse performance metrics and experience in debugging performance issues, such as bottlenecks and memory leaks.
• Good understanding of non-functional requirements analysis and planning.
• Experience of testing RESTful API\'s, API scripting, postman and performance testing.
• Experience in testing automation within a continuous integration environment (ideally Jenkins) and ability to integrate performance testing.

It would also be desirable for people who have:

• Familiar with working in a BDD environment.
• Understanding and non-functional test experience of microservice architecture, cloud, and Kafka.
• Experience of working within an Agile scrum team.
• Understanding and appreciation for Java and ideally worked closely with a Java development team.

You are likely to be

• Assured and self-organised; being accomplished at time management, delivering to tight pressured timelines, and proactive in identifying, understanding and acting in accordance with processes and standards
• Superb communication capabilities; being able to receive and convey key messages clearly, across an array of communication channels, with colleagues from a diverse group of backgrounds and levels.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborative abilities; being adept at building positive relationships and establishing a personal network across the organisation to deliver results.

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 performance-related bonus
• 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

If you\'re excited by the thought of becoming part of our Quality Engineering team, as a Test Engineer get in touch. We\'d love to hear from you.

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

Lloyds Banking Group