Lead Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE:  Lead Quality Engineer

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive

Here's where you’ll make a difference as a Senior Quality Engineer in our Customer Waterfront Lab –

• Set the strategic direction & best practice for QE for the lab
• Drive quality throughout the change lifecycle whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their team.
• Undertake multiple types of 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 in hands-on test automation to modernise our journeys.
• Be an advocate for Quality Engineering, providing a voice to Quality Engineers within the team, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues
• A passion for mentoring and coaching people in a "player-coach" model.
• Looks to automate testing where appropriate, updating and streamlining the test automation framework & coding standards deployed within the team, review the test code, development code to give feedback in improving the cycle time.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need

• Solid QE hands-on experience in automation, hands-on experience in shift left engineering using latest cutting-edge technology earlier in the life cycle and set code review best practices on BDD scripts with any programming language for 3+ years.
• Deep understanding of Java-script/ NodeJS / BDD Best Practices or alternatively strong hands-on with mobile testing automation and capable of building the test framework from scratch
• Strong experience in Mobile/Web App automation testing using Appium/Selenium and cucumber (or similar tech) and API automation using Playwright (or similar tech)
• Deep understanding of non-functional testing techniques and strong hands-on with automating the non-functional tests.
• Good understanding of DevOps tooling for execution of automation tests in CI Tools such as Jenkins, Azure or GCP

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Excellent understanding of programming principles such as engineering re-usable code, best practices such as accessibility automation, early performance proving and hands-on DevSecOps are essential.
• Strong experience with reviewing colleague’s work and providing feedback to others and scale up quality engineering initiatives through industry accepted frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills, able to clearly present ideas and provide direction to your team
• Extensive experience in problem solving and issue resolution by following key strategy principles in judgement, influence and drive the teams towards delivery

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 interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.