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Band E PEGA Quality Engineer - QE Automation & Frameworks
SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in an office site

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.

Where does this role sit?

Core Platforms is on a journey to build the bank of the future and simplify our operational processes to help our customers with our Business Process Management, Customer Relationship Management (MS Dynamics) and API Integration technologies. We lead, prioritise, and deliver change across the Group by engaging with the Business areas, understanding their need, and delivering change in an agile way to safely deliver benefit for our Customers and Colleagues.

Here's how you'll make a difference:

As a Quality Engineer, you'll be making a real difference, as you'll blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature team.

• Working with the Business, Development and UK onsite teams to drive solutions.

• Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise

• Coaching other members in the team including junior engineer and partner resources

• Attending and contributing to Guilds

• Supporting wider delivery consideration e.g. risk management, planning & keeping documents current

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, constantly evolving business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

About You

You're able to find answers to questions and resolve problems, energised by learning new technologies and staying in step with industry changes. You're passionate about delivering high quality products and services, keeping a focus on our customers. You build strong business relationships and communicate in a clear, concise manner. You'll have excellent analytical skills and able to work methodically with a high level of attention to detail.

Skills/ experience we'd need to see

• Accomplished Test Automation Engineer helping to develop a robust and future-facing Automation & Frameworks.

• Highly experienced in creating test frameworks to aid the testing of complex code to deliver products that are fit for purpose and meet the quality standards that our customers expect, based on deep domain and technical expertise.

• Ability to analyse and evaluate the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develop and amend them as necessary (with guidance from senior colleagues). You might also understand how to supervise activities performed by a product development/specialist team.

• Be highly competent in one of the following languages: Javascript, Typescript or equivalent.

• Basic understanding of PEGA Architecture and supporting infrastructure

• Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.

• Great teammate with good collaboration skills, with a willingness to improve your knowledge and experience.

• Growth Mindset - keen desire to lean and develop further

We'd be delighted if you also have:

• Knowledge of PEGA applications frameworks like Customer Service Framework, CLM (Customer Lifecycle Manager)

• Have a deep understanding of Frameworks and at least one automation framework, such as Playwright (preferred), Cypress, Selenium.

• Containerisation experience e.g docker.

• CI/CD experience e.g Jenkins.

• Knowledge on other programming languages.

• Agile experience

• Experience of JIRA/Confluence

• Comfortable participating in workshops

About working for us

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's exciting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey !

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme

The Growth Company’s (GC) Business Growth Hub’s Access to Finance team have an exciting new opportunity for an Access to Finance Network Manager who will lead on the establishment and development of long-term strategic operational relationships with key stakeholders, including ten Local Authorities, Business partners, national programmes and sponsors, HEIs, SMEs, and LEs to build mutually beneficial collaborative relationships facilitating the coordination of the GM funding and finance ecosystem and the identification of future opportunities for GMBGH and longer-term Growth Company (GC) vision, which complements the GC business plan and portfolio of services.

GC Business Growth Hub is a community of specialists with a passion to help businesses across Greater Manchester to realise their ambitions. Since 2011, the Hub has supported more than 15,000 businesses including start-ups, scale-ups and established businesses, providing finance guidance, creating international links, and paving the way for innovation and people development across the region. We work with the best of public and private partners, offering expert one-to-one and peer-to-peer business support, events, specialist programmes, funding and much more.

Key Responsibilities:

To lead the development of an active funding and finance ecosystem network of key stakeholders including Banks, Angel networks, Venture Capitalists, GMCA Core Investment team, GC Finance, local innovation hubs, sponsors, partners, and suppliers drawn from professional service providers, key sector trade bodies, private businesses, other lenders, fund holders, other financial organisations., and public sector organisations to obtain long term collaboration and referrals.
Provide effective, timely, and expert support by developing long-term partner strategies, enabling current and future collaborations aligned to the development of Growth Company and Growth Hub business plans to support economic and business objectives.
Stimulate all networks and hyperlocal networks, including working with business, professional, local, and sector networks to unearth innovative and growth-focused startups and companies.
Identify and evaluate influential contacts in new or existing partners to motivate potential sponsors, secure collaboration against agreed ecosystem objectives and facilitate working closely together to generate referrals.
Review, research, and map data to identify key market and sector-relevant intelligence to support and better inform the facilitation of the GM funding and finance ecosystem.
About you:

Operating as a credible ambassador on a regional platform to promote business support services objectives to a range of audiences.
Practical delivery of relationship building and management.
Stakeholder communication.
Understanding of the Business Support environment.
Knowledge of national and local economic development strategy.
Passionate about innovation, funding, and growth support & keen to share best practices with partners.
Strong people focus and ability to influence decision-makers, accountable, responsible, with enthusiasm for the subject & ability to, present confidently to a variety of audiences either, private or public, internal, or external at events, workshops, or other key meetings.
Skills Required:

Able to establish, develop, and maintain relationships with relevant private or public sector organisations, including financial and funding organisations and institutions, commercial, government / public bodies, HEIs.
Ability to work effectively with senior private or public sector contacts.
Able to influence others and secure buy-in.
Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
Ability to develop productive working relationships both internally and externally.
Confidence and ability to deal effectively with people at all levels of the organisation.
Committed to continuing own development & keeping up to date with latest developments in the business support field.
Able to plan and manage own workload, as well as achieving agreed targets and objectives.
We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

If you are on the Barred List, it is against the law to apply and to be hired for a role that includes regulated activity with the concerned group.

We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.