Quality Engineer Apprentice - Chester

at  Lloyds Banking Group

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Please note: In order to complete an apprenticeship there needs to be a significant learning need. You need to consider your previous qualifications or significant relevant work experience which may mean you cannot proceed with this application.
End Date
Sunday 14 April 2024
Salary Range
£33,982 - £46,515
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
Here at Lloyds Banking Group, we are passionate about delivering a high-quality apprenticeship experience to support everyone to realise their full potential.
It’s a chance to learn skills, gain qualifications and earn a salary, all while playing an important role in making finance a force for good.
Job Description
As a quality engineer apprentice, you will learn how to conduct various testing activities across the software development lifecycle to ensure the software meets the business’ functional, security, performance, usability and other relevant quality requirements. You will gain a thorough understanding of the various testing levels, testing types, techniques, tools, and the terminologies of the industry and through our language courses, colleagues will develop necessary programming skills to conduct white-box testing, test automation and other testing-related tasks.

Your apprenticeship will take around 18 months to complete and will cover key areas such as:

• software development lifecycles
• effective team working
• problem solving
• logic and data structures
• sorting and searching algorithms
• critical sections and race conditions
• relational and non-relational databases
• software designs and testing frameworks and methodologies

Our recruitment process has 3 steps – our online application, online assessments and an assessment day. You will be given full details of the process throughout your recruitment journey.
Key dates for your diary:
Assessment day: May / June 2024
Start: September 2024
Starting Salary: £33,982

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Our main requirement is that you to have a passion for the role you’re applying for! Aside from this we have a few formal requirements:

Education:

• GCSE English and Maths at grades 4 – 9 or equivalent.

Location:

• You should live a commutable distance from the location in this advert. Our work style is hybrid and you should expect to be in the office at least 2 days per week.

Additional Requirements:

• You’ll be aged at least 18 years old when the apprenticeship starts.
• Whilst we welcome candidates who have a degree, this cannot be in a field related to the apprenticeship due to a crossover in learning. We’ll request a copy of your degree module transcript to review your prior learning if your degree may contain prior learning.

FOR INFORMATION: Due to Home Office requirements regarding Skilled Workers, we’re unable to accept applications for visa sponsorship for our apprenticeship roles as the proposed salary for the role does not meet the minimum threshold – if this situation applies to you, please consider looking for other vacancies which may be more suitable.

Please refer the Job description for details