Associate Test Engineer

General information

Job Title Associate Test Engineer Ref # 8130 Location Newcastle Department Engineering Business Area Engineering Working time Full-Time Date Published 06-04-2023

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day

Associate Test Engineer

Edinburgh or Newcastle, hybrid working

Excellent Salary & Benefits

Our purpose

The Tesco name comes with a dedication to customer service excellence, but Tesco Bank offers something more: a fresh approach to finance. While it’s an innovation, ours is a business built on the next development, the evolution to come. For forward-thinking, technical professionals, that means making a wide-ranging and long-lasting impact in an organisation that’s changing the face of banking for our customers

We're on a mission to make our customers happier and more successful by putting them in control of their finances.

The Role

The Role of Associate Test Engineer is an introductory position someone starting their career within test engineering in the financial services sector.

• You will be focused on working within a team of multi-disciplined engineers to deliver compelling customer experiences and products across all our customer channels.
• You will be provided with training and coaching to build your understanding of testing, automation and associated practices and techniques in areas such as: -
  • UI - Selenium (or Cypress.IO or Playwright)
  • API – Rest Assured (Postman or Soap UI)
  • Mobile - Appium
  • Test Development – Cucumber, Gherkin (BDD)
  • Languages – Java or JavaScript
  • Containerisation – Docker
  • Web Services - AWS
  • Continuous Integration – Jenkins
  • SCM - Git
• You will work as part of a team developing effective tests using test techniques and heuristics covering a range of quality criteria with guidance and support from our senior engineers.
• Provide comprehensive test results to inform quality position of the delivery to your team
• Utilise agile test approaches to enable early and continuous delivery of software
• Identify, raise and respond to defects with accurate information to support resolution
• Your technical skill set will develop using formal testing techniques to deal with code deliveries from 3rd party and in-house development teams.
• The team is at a critical juncture, with new technologies, tool sets, and frameworks reshaping the landscape of our customer’s experiences. The successful candidate will have a strong desire to learn and play with these new tools and will be assisted by senior test engineers to aid their test creation and execution processes.
• Our test engineering culture is part of what makes us a great place to work, and we encourage all our test engineers to share new ideas, challenge existing practices and always be looking for opportunities to improve their teams and our wider engineering community.

What you’ll bring

We work across all Tesco Bank product lines, and the associated stacks and development methodologies, we don’t expect you to tick every box, and if you feel you hit most of the brief, it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.

A passion for testing and technology. You contribute to the vision for the future of testing and that you can work with us to improve our strategy and delivery

• Experience of agile environments with a focus on embedding a continuous testing approach into the SDLC
• Be able to manage your own time and be able to schedule tasks based on priority – for the bank, for the department and for your own development
• Strong communication skills – verbal and written
• Hands on experience or understanding of, but not limited to:-
  • Mobile apps
  • Online Banking / Websites
  • Mainframe applications
  • Microsoft Office suite
  • Jira and Confluence
  • Test Management tools including defect / bug tracking
  • Test Development – Cucumber, Gherkin (BDD)
  • Test execution – using tools and formal techniques
  • Reporting progress

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How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.
Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

Why Tesco Bank?

We’re also a little obsessed with the future. Your future. Our future. That’s why we take development seriously; we want to help you thrive and evolve in your career. Tesco Bank is a place to get on, all colleagues have access to LinkedIn Learning and Abstract, from day one.
It’s important to us that we make sure you’re supported by your team and colleague networks every day, celebrating when it matters and helping you to be the best version of yourself. The people make Tesco Bank, and we take pride in what we achieve together.

All that hard work? Come and see it turned into something real, usable, and important to customers’ and colleagues’ everyday lives. At Tesco Bank, our products make things a little better for everyone.