Overview

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

LOCATION(S): Manchester

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) a week at our Manchester office.

End Date: Monday 22 September 2025

We’re building software that people rely on every day—and we care deeply about making it secure, resilient, and easy to use. As a Lead Software Quality Engineer, you’ll help shape how we test and improve our products, using smart tools and thoughtful approaches. We’re excited about the potential of AI-powered testing and automation, and we’d love for you to explore that with us!

We believe quality is a shared responsibility, and we’re looking for someone who enjoys working closely with others, sharing ideas, and helping teams grow. If you’re curious, collaborative, and keen to make a real impact—this could be a great fit!

What You’ll Be Doing

• Designing and evolving automation frameworks that are easy to maintain and scale.
• Using tools like Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestNG, JUnit, and Cucumber—and staying open to trying new ones.
• Embedding testing into delivery pipelines with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, and Harness.
• Applying modern practices around security, resilience, accessibility, and observability, using tools like Chaos Monkey, OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, and Dynatrace.
• Working with engineers and product teams to define clear, shared expectations for quality.
• Supporting continuous improvement through mentoring, coaching, and learning together.
• Collaborating in Agile environments (Scrum, SAFe) to help teams deliver thoughtfully and effectively.
• Taking shared responsibility for the quality of key platforms and working alongside engineers to build robust, clean code.
• Bonus! Exploring how AI tools can enhance automation and testing strategies.

What You’ll Bring

• A curious mindset and a love for solving problems—especially with others.
• Clear communication skills—you can explain ideas in ways that make sense to different audiences.
• A collaborative approach—you enjoy working with others to find practical, sustainable solutions.
• A genuine interest in helping people grow and in learning new things yourself.

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’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

• 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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, while the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. We’ll only ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, at which point background checks are run. We’ll explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.