JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer
SALARY: £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION(S): Chester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We're recruiting for a Lead Quality Engineer to work closely with the Engineering Lead within the Embedded Finance Team. This is a key role offering a unique and challenging opportunity to shape the growing Embedded Finance Tech Team and Quality Engineering framework.
As the Lead Quality Engineer, you'll be in charge of leading all aspects of the quality roadmap, including creating testing strategies and coordinating the automation process using standard software testing practices. You'll work closely with developers, business partners, and product managers to build the testing framework and test suites to support our continuous deployment pipeline ensuring robust and efficient releases.
Aside from hands-on contribution, you'll hire and grow a team of Quality Engineers, developing people by coaching and providing technical leadership. You'll provide Quality Engineering oversight and technical expertise throughout the entire software lifecycle, in a complex scenario integrated with third-party systems.
What you'll need:
* Strong Quality Engineering background, including automated testing frameworks and testing best practices
* Automation-first approach, with a passion for driving productivity and a focus on reducing risk
* Experience with cloud environment (e.g. GCP) and testing infrastructure
* Proven leadership skills in guiding Quality Engineering teams or complex programmes using Agile methodologies
* Proficiency in coding languages such as Java, Python, or similar
* Solid knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
And any experience of these would be really useful:
* Familiarity with Embedded Finance or financial services applications
* Experience with Jira Align and Confluence
* Familiarity with SQL and Snowflake
* Experience on non-functional testing on live systems at scale
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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance-related bonus
* 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 interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!
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