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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.\nThis 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.\nAs 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.\nAt 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 and whatever you bring, there's a place for you here and a genuine plan for where you go next.\nWhat You’ll Do\nEvery 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.\nQuality 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. Some of the key areas of responsibly include:\nSupporting the delivery of modern Quality Engineering practices that embed testing within CI/CD pipelines and supports fast, reliable software delivery. \nDriving improvements across engineering performance metrics such as lead time, automation coverage, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and defect escape rates \nChampioning shift-left practices including functional, performance, resilience, and security testing within automated delivery pipelines \nCollaborating with engineering, architecture, and product teams to define quality strategies, standards, and approaches that support the delivery of resilient and maintainable software.\nDesigning, 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. \nWorking closely with the engineering community to improve testability, observability, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle. \nMentoring and supporting Quality Engineers and wider engineering teams, helping to build capability and promote shared ownership of quality\nWe 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.\nWhat You’ll Need\nProven experience as a Quality Engineer, or similar role within a modern engineering environment.\nStrong hands-on experience in test automation, API testing, non-functional testing, and embedding quality within CI/CD and DevSecOps practices \nExperience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and integrating automated testing within delivery pipelines. \nExperience working with cloud-based systems, distributed architectures, and modern software delivery models. \nStrong understanding of quality engineering principles, including shift-left testing, testability, observability, resilience, and performance testing. \nAbility to use data and metrics to drive improvements in quality, performance, and delivery outcomes \nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders.\nPassion for continuous improvement, mentoring others, and championing a culture of shared quality ownership.\nISTQB Foundation Level certification, or equivalent experience demonstrating a strong understanding of software testing and quality engineering principles\nWhat’s In It For You\nYour work matters.\nAnd the way we reward you matters, too.\nAt Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.\nAnnual discretionary bonus scheme\n25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days\nMatching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)\nColleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates\nFlexible working to help balance your commitments\nPrivate medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships \nLifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA\nWe’re here to make life better for our members. \nAbout Skipton.\nOur story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.\nWe 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.\nYou'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.\nWhat it's like to work here \nLife at Skipton\nWe 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.\nFor 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.\nWe 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.\nIt’s not just our members who are important to us. \nYou are, too.\nLots 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.\nWellbeing 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.\nWhat’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.\nApply now\nSounds like you? Then apply now.\nYou don't need to tick every box - we look for people who care about our members and who want to grow at the same time. 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