Test Engineer Salary: Circa £57,500 per annum Location: Swindon, London, Bournemouth or Northampton You'll be joining one of our agile scrum teams to build and enhance the originations journeys our customers use to open new accounts with Nationwide.
Our originations applications are the first thing many of our customers see.
So to work on them you will need a keen eye for detail and you won't be afraid to speak up with suggestions and/or improvements.
At Nationwide we offer hybrid working wherever possible.
More rewarding relationships are supported through our hybrid approach, bringing colleagues together across our UK wide estate, whilst also supporting generous access to home working.
We value our time in the office to solve problems, to learn, and to feel connected.
For this job you'll spend at least two days per week, or if part time you'll spend 40% of your working time, at either our Swindon, Bournemouth, London or Northampton office.
If your application is successful, your hiring manager will provide further details on how this works.
You can also find out more about our approach to hybrid working here .
If we receive a high volume of relevant applications, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so please apply as soon as you can.
What you'll be doing Harnessing your experience of software testing techniques and technologies you'll be working within an agile team to design, test and support the applications our customers use to apply for our products, e.g.
personal loans.
As someone who collaborates well with others, you'll be working with other engineers, experts in experience design, application security and resilience to create intuitive, performant, and secure originations journeys for our customers.
About you To be successful in this role, we'd expect you to have demonstratable experience in the following areas: Understanding of test automation and exploratory testing techniques A proactive, inquisitive nature – always looking for the long-term solution Production of test evidence and associated artefacts to support quality Functional and Non-functional Testing JavaScript coding ability to support the creation and maintenance of automation framework Technical expertise including: Knowledge of different database solutions and how to query their contents Hands-on experience working with a range of testing and relevant tools including: WebdriverIO - NodeJS, Selenium, Postman, JIRA, Confluence, GIT, Cucumber, BDD Jenkins and cloud & Kubernetes experience etc You recognise the importance of working on code as a team – reviewing each other's work, developing best practice, and collaborating on designs.
You've got the right aptitude and attitude to work in one our teams: You can learn, develop, and master new skills You enjoy challenges and solving problems You help others and enable them to succeed Our Customer First behaviours are all about putting customers and members at the heart of how we work together.
You can strengthen your application by showing the behaviours that resonate with you, and how you might have already demonstrated these.
Say it straight - This is about being honest and direct with good intent and saying what needs to be said in the room.
It's also about being clear, precise, and using language that we and, importantly, our customers and members can understand.
Push for better - This is about aiming high and constantly looking for better in how we work together and serve our customers and members.
Get it done - This is about prioritising what will have the greatest impact, being decisive and taking accountability for delivering on the end-to-end outcome.
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So, it's a good idea to call out your most relevant experience on your application to give yourself the best chance.
The extras you'll get There are all sorts of employee benefits available at Nationwide, including: A personal pension – if you put in 7% of your salary, we'll top up by a further 16% Up to 2 days of paid volunteering a year Life assurance worth 8x your salary A great selection of additional benefits through our salary sacrifice scheme Wellhub – Access to a range of free and paid options for health and wellness.
Access to an annual performance related bonus Access to training to help you develop and progress your career 25 days holiday, pro rata What makes us different Nationwide is the world's largest building society.
With over 15 million customers, we have a relationship with almost a quarter of the UK's population.
We've got the scale to compete with the big banks, but we're not a bank.
As a building society, we're owned by our members – that's our customers who have their current account, mortgage or savings with us.
It means we can do things differently to deliver our Purpose – Banking – but fairer, more rewarding, and for the good of society.
When you work at Nationwide, you can experience that difference for yourself.
You'll be part of a high-performing, purpose-driven organisation that offers rewarding career experiences and a highly competitive range of benefits to match.
You'll also be joining us at an important time as we seek to reach more and more people in the UK.
We want everyone in the UK to know that they don't have to bank with a bank.
They can choose a modern mutual instead.