Lead Quality Engineer at OneSavings Bank PLC

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

18 Jun, 26

Salary

75000.0

Posted On

20 Mar, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Quality Engineering, Automation, Performance Testing, Security Testing, Playwright, TypeScript, Karate, Cucumber, BDD, Gatling Enterprise, Test Automation Frameworks, CI/CD Pipelines, Zephyr, BrowserStack, Coaching, Accessibility Testing

Industry

Financial Services

Description

About the team We are looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to play a key role in delivering quality engineering across our technology landscape, helping to ensure consistent, scalable and high-quality delivery aligned to our strategic objectives. In this role, you’ll help deliver and embed modern testing practices, supporting automation, performance and security testing across the full software development lifecycle. You’ll contribute to our technology modernisation agenda, ensuring quality is built in from the outset and continuously improved. Reporting into the Deputy Head of Testing, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product and operations while supporting and developing a high-performing team. You’ll bring a strong balance of hands-on technical expertise and collaborative leadership, helping to deliver reliable, secure and customer-focused solutions across a complex, regulated environment. This role can be based from our Chatham or Wolverhampton offices. What you will be doing? As Lead Quality Engineer you will play a key role in executing quality engineering initiatives, helping to embed robust, scalable and innovative testing practices across all technology delivery. Key responsibilities will include… Support the delivery of a transformation-focused quality engineering agenda across all value streams Execute and contribute to quality engineering strategies, frameworks and automation-first approaches Design, implement and enhance automated testing using tools such as Playwright (TypeScript) for UI, Karate and Cucumber (BDD) for API testing, and Gatling Enterprise for performance testing Develop and evolve scalable test automation frameworks integrated within CI/CD pipelines, leveraging tools such as Zephyr and BrowserStack for test management Lead, coach and support a high-performing quality engineering team Embed quality across the full delivery lifecycle, including performance, security and accessibility testing Collaborate across distributed teams to support alignment, remove blockers and enable high-quality releases What's in it for you? Base salary up to £75,000 Enhanced family-focused benefits Annual bonus opportunity up to 15% 28 days annual leave + bank holidays Please use this link to see the fantastic benefits available at OSB: OSB Careers About us At OSB Group, we understand how much our people bring to our organisation, which is why we try our best to give back too! Our Purpose is to help our customers, colleagues and communities prosper and we are on a transformation journey to become ‘the bank of the future’. Our commitment to professional development, flexible working, and employee well-being fosters a dynamic and supportive workplace. Do you have the skills? We are looking for talented individuals who have the experience and knowledge set out below: Proven experience in a Lead/Senior Quality Engineer or similar role, with a strong focus on test automation within a regulated/financial services organisation Experience contributing to and scaling automation frameworks across complex environments Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams within complex, fast-paced environments Strong hands-on experience with API, UI and BDD test automation, alongside proficiency in at least one programming language (e.g. Java, Python, JavaScript or C#) Hands-on experience with performance testing and test management tools, including Gatling Enterprise, Zephyr, and BrowserStack Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools, combined with a solid understanding of cloud platforms and containerisation technologies Excellent stakeholder management skills, with experience engaging at a senior level and the ability to influence both technical and non-technical audiences Next steps If this sounds like you, please apply now! For internal applications please visit the internal careers page to apply. Still on the fence? Hear from our team or explore our process: OSB Careers Shortlisted candidates will go through a personalised recruitment process, that is relevant and conversational – inclusive any individual reasonable support required. We want to bring out the best in you! Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Not sure if you meet the spec? Let us decide. Research tells us that those from marginalised groups feel like they need to meet 100% of the criteria to apply. Here at OSB, we are committed to inclusivity and understand the value different experiences and perspectives can bring, so please don’t feel like you need to check every box to apply for a role internally. We champion diversity at all levels, with Board-level Diversity Champions tracking our progress. We are proud to be signed up to the Women in Finance Charter to actively support the growth and development of senior women in our sector and are dedicated to treating all our employees and job applicants equally, opposed to discrimination on any grounds.

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Responsibilities

The Lead Quality Engineer will execute quality engineering initiatives, embedding robust, scalable, and innovative testing practices across all technology delivery streams. Key duties include contributing to quality engineering strategies, designing and enhancing automated testing using specified tools, and leading/coaching the quality engineering team.