Lead Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) a week at one of the above offices

About this opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has arisen as a Lead Quality Engineer to nurture a high performing, learning centric team. Accountable for ensuring the products developed meet the quality standards & acceptance criteria in line with LBG’s; Group Test Strategy, Engineering Standard & Guardrails & Tech Strategy! You will be an active member of the LBG QE Community and FNZ Lab leadership team transforming how we deliver change!

Key responsibilities:

• Develop and/or delivers budget plans for own area with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Take responsibility for implementing formal development frameworks for a substantial department, while informally coaching and mentoring others throughout the organisation and investing in own personal development.

• Identify ways to improve processes, proposes improvements, and implements them for organizational development.

• Provide input into the development of IT Security policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.

• Manage the development and/or operation of knowledge management system with guidance from senior colleagues.

• Develop and/or delivers a plan for a specific area of responsibility by managing others.

• Set longer term objectives and takes responsibility for implementing and coordinating performance management systems for a substantial department within the organisation.

• Analyse and evaluates the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and/or supervises activities performed by a product development/specialist team.

• Identify and evaluates complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.

• Develop tactical plans for optimisation of resources and assets being managed within a given area or department.

• Develop and/or delivers components of a planning framework with mentorship from senior colleagues.

• Meet changing requirements by developing new testing approaches and strategy for a defined range of products and/or operations.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• You will be a creative problem solver able to share you knowledge and experience of Testing with you team and wider community.

• You will be a good communicator able to ‘tell the story’  both in pictures and verbally  for senior business and technical stakeholders.

• You will collaborate with your peers to ensure we deliver in a creative yet disciplined way for the business embracing ‘Pace, Quality and Predictability’.

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.