Test Engineer

General information

Job Title Test Engineer Ref # 8108 Location Edinburgh Department Engineering Business Area Engineering Working time Full-Time Date Published 12-04-2023

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

Test Engineer

Edinburgh or Newcastle, Flexible/Remote working available

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

In the role of Test Engineer, you will ensure that solutions that enable the Bank to respond to key challenges & realise exciting opportunities, align to agreed design specifications, engineering standards & patterns. You will:

• Analyse User Stories & Requirements.
• Develop Test Scenarios and Cases.
• Prepare Test Data (when required).
• Working closely with Analysts and Engineers on the developed solutions, providing feedback on the soundness of proposed solutions, ensuring they are fit for purpose.
• Using experience, domain knowledge and a risk-based approach, split testing effort effectively into functional automated tests, structured exploratory testing sessions and non-functional testing (UI, accessibility, performance and security).
• Performing manual testing (exploratory and functional), recording results and logging defects, and continuously assessing and refactoring test scenarios.
• Supporting and working closely with business stakeholders or users where engagement is needed.
• Estimating test effort for planned work, feedback on any required metrics to Senior Test Engineer Providing feedback/input on the techniques, solutions and tools used in Tesco Bank.
• Taking an active part in Test Community of Practice and Interest groups for the benefit of self and the wider community.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for people who have a solid background in testing and are able to write test automation code, ideally in Java. We don’t expect you to have expert-level coding skills and it’s worth exploring to further develop your career here with us at Tesco Bank.

Here’s what we need:

• Testing and/or development experience.
• Knowledge of: Structured test methods and processes, risk-based approach to testing.
• Experience working in collaborative agile development environments.
• Good working knowledge of at least one programming or scripting language.
• Experience in a code repository and CI/CD.
• Excellent team worker, with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Passionate about testing and software development.
• Challenging and inquiring mind.
• Attention to detail and persistence.
• Effective and concise communication.
• Ability to effectively prioritise work.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, look for ways to further develop themselves & careers, and have an excellent work/life balance

Looking to the future, we are excited to understand our ‘new normal' and are committed to exploring the opportunities that a hybrid working environment could bring for our wider team. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Bank looks like, click apply to find out more!

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How to apply

We value our people and diverse team and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals. We encourage colleagues to be productive, focus on meaningful work, and look for ways to further develop themselves & career, and have an excellent work/life balance. 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?

At Tesco Bank everyone is welcome, we value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger in achieving our goals. 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.

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.

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.

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.