Lead Quality Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 104,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent banking institution is looking for a Lead Quality Engineer in London. This role involves shaping technical solutions, leading engineering practices, and ensuring high-quality software delivery. Ideal candidates should have substantial experience in Quality Engineering and knowledge of testing methodologies and tools. The position offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between home and office.

Benefits

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Good Quality Engineering and Test Management experience across the entire test lifecycle.
• Experience in test automation, user acceptance testing, mocking and test data management.
• Knowledge of wider testing approaches & tooling including security, performance, chaos & contract testing.

Responsibilities

• Shape technical solutions and lead engineering practices.
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams.
• Ensure high-quality software delivery aligned with engineering transformation strategy.

Skills

Quality Engineering and Test Management experience

Test automation

User acceptance testing

Mocking and test data management

Systems design considerations

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

JUnit

Jenkins

Selenium

Postman

Job description

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

SALARY: £104,686 - £123,160

LOCATION: London

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 our London Gresham Street office location

About this opportunity

Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform within Consumer Relationships that supports the Group's strategic goals by deepening customer relationships. PEC delivers personalised communications and experiences across all channels and business areas, enabling the Customer Relationship Growth strategy for both retail and commercial banking. It also drives data, analytics, and technology to enhance branded experiences, propositions, pricing, and sustainable, paper-free ambitions.

As Lead Quality Engineer, you'll shape technical solutions, lead engineering practices, and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams. You'll play a key role in ensuring high-quality software delivery aligned with our engineering transformation strategy.

We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise, a passion for engineering excellence, and a curious, adaptable mindset who leads by example and inspires others.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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

• Good Quality Engineering and Test Management experience across the entire test lifecycle.

• A transformation mentality, leading and driving transformation opportunities to support agility, capability-building, and the wider Engineering Transformation Strategy.

• An understanding of the importance of testing and the Quality Framework within LBG and the ability to educate other change teams.

• Ability to lead your team to align with strategic tooling & approaches and strive for excellence through quality and innovation.

• Ability to work pro-actively to embed QE standard methodologies on various technology stacks.

• Experience in test automation, user acceptance testing, mocking and test data management

• An understanding of wider testing approaches & tooling including security, performance, chaos & contract testing.

• An understanding of systems design considerations such as security, cloud, event-driven systems, microservices, resilience, automation & SRE.

• Shift left solutions and expanding the current capability are a must.

It would be great if you also had:

• Desirable skills would be Cypress, Playwright, Karate, Jenkins , Github. Selenium, Applitools

• At least one desktop/mobile cloud tool testing experience such as perfecto, BrowserStack or SauceLabs for compatibility testing

• A deep understanding of Java / JavaScript / NodeJS / Postman / TDD / BDD Best Practices

• Hands-on experience with Java / JavaScript test automation programming and capable of building test frameworks from scratch in an agile environment.

• Strong experience in Appium, WebdriverIO , Cucumber and API automation solutions such as RestAssured / Karate / Postman.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!