Lead Quality Engineer

LSEG; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Retirement planning

Volunteer days

Wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

LSEG seeks a Senior Associate Quality Engineer to join our automated testing program for Java microservices. You will coach developers, design and execute unit, component, contract, and end-to-end tests, and embed quality early in the SDLC.

You'll work in an Agile environment, promote BDD practices, and help drive a unified testing strategy across service families. Experience with JUnit, Rest-Assured, Pact and AWS Lambda is highly valued.

Qualifications

• Proven Java development and test automation experience.
• Strong unit, component, contract, and end-to-end testing skills.
• Experience in CI/CD and trunk-based development.

Responsibilities

• Act as a technical expert in automated testing for Java microservices.
• Coach developers to adopt strong testing practices and embed quality early in the SDLC.
• Drive a microservices testing strategy across test levels (unit, component, contract, E2E).
• Encourage containerised services locally to prevent integration issues and keep pipelines clean.
• Design and validate integration tests between Java services and AWS Lambda.

Skills

Java

Test automation

JUnit

Rest-Assured

Pact

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

CI/CD

BDD

Agile/Scrum

AWS Lambda

Communication

Tools

JUnit

Rest-Assured

Pact

Mockito

Localstack

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

CloudFormation

Istio

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

About Us

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open‑access partners with a dedication to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open‑access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Our People

People are at the heart of what we do and drive the success of our business. Our culture of connecting, creating opportunity and delivering excellence shape how we think, how we do things and how we help our people fulfil their potential. We embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. We break down barriers and encourage teamwork, enabling innovation and rapid development of solutions that make a difference. Our workplace generates an enriching and rewarding experience for our people and customers alike. Our vision is to build an inclusive culture in which everyone feels encouraged to fulfil their potential.

We know that real personal growth cannot be achieved by simply climbing a career ladder – which is why we encourage and enable a wealth of avenues and interesting opportunities for everyone to broaden and deepen their skills and expertise. As a global organisation spanning 70 countries and rooted in a culture of growth, opportunity, diversity and innovation, LSEG is a place where everyone can grow, develop and fulfil their potential with meaningful careers.

Role Summary

Join our innovative team and help us lead quality initiatives that empower developers and improve testing practices across workstreams.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Act as a technical expert in automated testing for Java microservices.
• Coach developers to adopt strong unit, component and contract testing practices and embed quality early in the SDLC.
• Drive a microservices testing strategy: Unit, component, contract, and simple, maintainable end‑to‑end tests.
• Encourage developers to run containerised services locally to avoid integration issues and keep pipelines clean in a trunk‑based development environment.
• Design and validate integration tests between Java services and AWS Lambda functions.
• Work in Agile / Scrum, lead refinement sessions, improve user stories and acceptance criteria, and promote BDD practices (3 Amigos, Gherkin/Cucumber).
• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent quality practices and continuous improvement in frameworks and pipelines.
• Lead the quality space across multiple teams in a “service family”.

What You’ll Bring

• Working with other Quality Engineers to build and maintain automated tests using Java (JUnit, Rest‑Assured) and Pact for contract testing.
• Tools like Selenium, Cypress and Playwright for UI testing (where applicable).
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to support trunk‑based development.
• Strong experience in Java development and test automation.
• Knowledge of microservices testing strategies.
• Solid AWS platform expertise, including Lambda (for Java integration), API Gateway, S3, CloudWatch and IAM.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile / Scrum environment.
• Experience with CI/CD and trunk‑based development.
• Passion for continuous learning and enabling others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Skills

• Containerisation & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Cloud Formation.
• Service Mesh: Exposure to Istio.
• Advanced testing tools: Pact, Rest‑Assured, Mockito, Localstack.
• Observability: Distributed tracing and monitoring in microservices.

Career Stage

Senior Associate

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs.

Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do.