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Permanent\nOffice Attendance - Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires up to an average of 1 day per week onsite.\nClosing Date - Applications close on 14th September at 5pm\nWhy this role?\nThis is a fantastic opportunity to join the team at a pivotal time as we continue to invest in our technology estate and engineering capabilities. As aSenior Test Engineer, you'll help drive quality across key business and customer-facing platforms, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable and fit for purpose. Bringing expertise in both functional and performance testing, you'll work on strategic technology initiatives, collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation, and play a key role in delivering high-quality solutions that support our colleagues, customers and business outcomes.\nWhat you’ll be doing\nDeliver robust, high-quality software by designing and executing effective functional and performance testing across complex technology solutions.\nImprove product reliability and customer experience by identifying defects, performance bottlenecks and quality risks before they reach production.\nIncrease test efficiency and coverage through the development and enhancement of automated testing frameworks and tooling.\nEnsure systems perform at scale by designing and executing performance, load and resilience testing activities.\nSupport successful delivery of business-critical initiatives by collaborating closely with engineers, product teams, stakeholders and multiple third-party suppliers, ensuring quality outcomes across complex delivery landscapes.\nDrive continuous improvement in engineering quality by applying modern testing techniques, sharing technical expertise and championing best practices within delivery teams.\nWhat we’re looking for (minimum criteria)\nProven experience in software testing and quality engineering, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality solutions across complex technology environments.\nStrong automation testing skills, including experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks within modern CI/CD pipelines.\nHands-on experience of Performance testing, including load, resilience and scalability testing using industry-standard tools and practices.\nExperience of delivering testing activities using both Agile delivery methodologies and structured project approaches across complex, time-bound initiatives, balancing quality, risk and delivery commitments.\nAnd if you have any of these, even better\nExperience working within the Financial Services sector, with preferred understanding of the end-to-end insurance lifecycle including quote, policy administration, claims, underwriting or customer servicing platforms, and of delivering quality engineering within regulated environments.\nHands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner across complex enterprise applications.\nKnowledge of API, integration and microservices testing within distributed systems architectures.\nExperience of line management within a technology or engineering function, developing individual and team capability through coaching, mentoring and performance management, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and quality outcomes.\nWe welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.\nWhat’s in it for you\nA generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.\nPrivate Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family.\nPerformance related annual bonus.\n7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.\nColleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).\nEnhanced parental leave.\nOpportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.\nA place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.\nInterviews\nAs a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.\nWe also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.\nInterviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.\nWhy Tesco Insurance and Money Services?\nSeeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.\nLucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.\nWe deal in the personal - from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.\nEverything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.\nSo, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.\nLet's make everyday a little better.\nOur story\nMaking Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.\nWe began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.\nWe want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centers are open seven days a week.\nDelivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes - people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.\nHow to apply\nWe value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.\nOur 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. 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