Senior Quality Engineer; Automation, NFT & AI

Position: Senior Quality Engineer (Automation, NFT & AI)
** End Date
** Wednesday 11 March 2026
** Salary Range**£72,702 - £80,780
** Flexible Working Options
** Job Share
** Job Description Summary
** Accountable for delivery of Quality Engineering across lab/PT as part of a multi skilled feature team, collaborating to ensure quality & customer requirements are met when developing products.
Will be an active member of the LBG QE Community, sharing knowledge to benefit the Group.
** Job Description
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* Job Title:

Senior Quality Engineer (Automation, NFT & AI)
**** SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780
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* LOCATION:

Manchester
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* HOURS:

** Full time
** WORKING PATTERN:
** Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in our Manchester office
** About this opportunity
** If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, constantly evolving 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.

This role is part of our Smarter Journeys and Hive Lab, a co-located team within the Colleague Channels Platform. We build solutions using modern, innovative technology, including AI. We collaborate on key initiatives to deliver value quickly by crafting services that colleagues and customers find useful, intuitive, and engaging.
** Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
** As a Senior Quality Engineer, you’ll be making a real difference, as you'll combine both extensive domain and technical knowledge within a feature team.
* Collaborate with Product Owners, Designers, Engineers and Dev Ops Teams to redefine building, functionality, features and experiments.
* Drive transformation in quality engineering, play a key role in delivering quality software solutions into production.
* Participate in Communities of Practice, Guilds and improvement working groups.
* Mentor other members in the team including junior engineer and partner resources.
** Skills/ experience we'd need to see
*** Accomplished Full Stack Quality Engineer with hands-on expertise in all aspects of quality, including functional and non-functional testing owning quality strategy for a feature, service, or journey from discovery through live support, including test approach, automation strategy, and NFT coverage.
* Accomplished Test Automation Engineer contributing to the development of a strong and forward-looking Automation & Frameworks. Experienced in crafting UI and API automated tests using tools like Playwright (preferred) or similar. Knowledgeable in BDD frameworks with Cucumber.
* Experienced NFT Engineer, skilled in performance, security, and accessibility testing with practical knowledge of tools including Load runner enterprise, K6, Burpsuite pro, OWASP Zap, Axe core, JAWS.
* Knowledge of AI and Machine Learning, exposure to Model and Agentic evaluation and applying Gen AI in test automation.
* Be highly proficient in one of the following languages:
Python, Typescript, Java script or equivalent.
* Agile experience and experience of working with Jira and Confluence.
* Clear Communication - both written and verbal, familiar with communicating with business partners.
* Growth Mindset - keen desire to lean and develop further.
** Additional skills (desired):
*** Working within container technology such as Docker and Kubernetes within a cloud environment such as GCP, AWS or Azure.
* CI/CD experience e.g. GIT Hub, Harness or Jenkins.
* Experience in SRE and Chaos Engineering.
** 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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

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