Senior Quality Engineer

SBS Skipton Building Society; Skipton; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual discretionary bonus

Hybrid working

Pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Home and Tech voucher

Cycle-to-work scheme

Job summary

SBS Skipton Building Society is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to embed quality into our software delivery lifecycle. You will champion automation, API testing, and non‑functional quality while guiding teams toward reliable, scalable software.

You’ll collaborate with engineering, architecture, and product groups to shape testing strategies and improve observability and release confidence. Hybrid working is available, with three days in the Skipton office and two days remote.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer in a modern engineering environment.
• Hands-on test automation, API testing, and CI/CD/DevSecOps practices.
• ISTQB Foundation Level or equivalent experience in software testing.

Responsibilities

• Embed testing within CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable software delivery.
• Improve performance metrics such as lead time, automation coverage and deployment frequency.
• Champion shift-left testing including functional, performance, resilience and security testing.
• Define quality strategies with engineering, architecture and product teams.
• Design and maintain scalable test automation frameworks for web, mobile and API platforms.
• Mentor and support Quality Engineers and wider engineering teams.

Skills

Automation testing

API testing

Non-functional testing

CI/CD

Mentoring

Education

ISTQB Foundation Level

Tools

Playwright

Appium

Selenium

C#

Java

Azure DevOps

Postman

Job description

Hours: Permanent - full time 35 hours a week Hybrid working Closing Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2026

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to help shape how we build quality into everything we deliver. If you're passionate about modern engineering practices, automation, API testing, non-functional testing, and embedding quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle, this is an opportunity to make a real impact across our technology landscape. This role operates to ensure quality is engineered into our products and platforms from the outset. You will work closely with engineering teams to improve system testability, automation, observability, and release confidence, while driving the adoption of modern engineering practices that enable the rapid delivery of secure, reliable and scalable software. As a senior member of the Quality Engineering community, you'll also provide technical leadership, mentoring, and guidance to colleagues, helping to shape testing strategies, grow engineering capability, and drive continuous improvement across our products and platforms, tooling, and ways of working.

At Skipton, we're founded on fairness. We exist to do right by our members - and we believe that starts with doing right by our people. So whoever you are andwhatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.

What You’ll Do

Every day at Skipton is innovation day. Join our Technology team and you’ll discover that we’re constantly focused on real challenges as we build the tools that get things done for our members - quicker than you imagine. Quality Engineering plays a key role in ensuring quality is engineered into our products and platforms. By championing automation, testability, and continuous quality practices, the function supports the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient software.

• Supporting the delivery of modern Quality Engineering practices that embed testing within CI/CD pipelines and supports fast, reliable software delivery.
• Driving improvements across engineering performance metrics such as lead time, automation coverage, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and defect escape rates.
• Championing shift-left practices including functional, performance, resilience, and security testing within automated delivery pipelines.
• Collaborating with engineering, architecture, and product teams to define quality strategies, standards, and approaches that support the delivery of resilient and maintainable software.
• Designing, developing, and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks and quality engineering solutions across web, mobile, API, and a Core Banking platform using technologies including Playwright, Appium, Selenium, C#, Java, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Postman, performance testing tools, and monitoring platforms.
• Working closely with the engineering community to improve testability, observability, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Mentoring and supporting Quality Engineers and wider engineering teams, helping to build capability and promote shared ownership of quality.

We work in a hybrid way, balancing flexibility with collaboration. For this role, you'll typically spend three days a week in our Skipton office, with the remaining two days working from home.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer, or similar role within a modern engineering environment.
• Strong hands‑on experience in test automation, API testing, non‑functional testing, and embedding quality within CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and integrating automated testing within delivery pipelines.
• Experience working with cloud‑based systems, distributed architectures, and modern software delivery models.
• Strong understanding of quality engineering principles, including shift‑left testing, testability, observability, resilience, and performance testing.
• Ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements in quality, performance, and delivery outcomes.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders.
• Passion for continuous improvement, mentoring others, and championing a culture of shared quality ownership.
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification, or equivalent experience demonstrating a strong understanding of software testing and quality engineering principles.

What’s In It For You

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates
• Flexible working to help balance your commitments
• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle‑to‑work scheme, discounted gym memberships
• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA
• We’re here to make life better for our members.

About Skipton.

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth. We help over a million members put down roots, save for what matters, and feel good about their money. As a mutual, they own us, so everything we do is for them. You'll feel that same fairness and purpose in how all 2,500 of our colleagues work together, too. It all means that life at Skipton is more exciting than you imagine.

What it's like to work here

Life at Skipton. We talk and we listen to each other. And we make decisions as a team. That way, you get all the support you need to do work that works for everyone. For most of our roles there's the option of blended working, which means we mix working from home and meeting in person. The right balance depends on your role, and what works best for you, your manager, and your team. We also value what everyone brings to Skipton. And we create a fair place where you can be yourself. Our colleague networks play a big role in this. They connect people with similar life experiences and make our workplace warm, friendly, inclusive and welcoming. It’s not just our members who are important to us. You are, too. Lots of organisations talk about wellbeing, but they don’t always back it up. As a mutual, we put people first. And that includes the people who work here. So, when we say we care about your wellbeing, we mean it. Wellbeing isn't just one thing. It’s about feeling good, having energy, and being able to be yourself and perform at your best. That’s why we offer help for your mental and physical health across five key areas.

Life at Skipton

We’re just a bit different: not just another building society. We’re the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we're a mutual organisation. We don't have shareholders; we're owned by our members. Our colleagues say Skipton's a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we’ll help you take the next step towards a better future. Why? It’s just the way we are. We care about sustainability and look to the long‑term for both colleagues and customers. And we know that when we build better futures as individuals, we build better futures as a business.