Senior Quality Engineer

Job introduction

We’re looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to help shape how we build quality into everything we deliver. 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.

This 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.

As 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.

At 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.

What You’ll Do

Every 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.

Quality 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:

• Supporting the delivery of modern Quality Engineering practices that embed testing within CI/CD pipelines and supports fast, reliable software delivery.

• Driving improvements across engineering performance metrics such as lead time, automation coverage, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and defect escape rates

• Championing shift-left practices including functional, performance, resilience, and security testing within automated delivery pipelines

• Collaborating with engineering, architecture, and product teams to define quality strategies, standards, and approaches that support the delivery of resilient and maintainable software.

• Designing, 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.

• Working closely with the engineering community to improve testability, observability, and quality throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Mentoring and supporting Quality Engineers and wider engineering teams, helping to build capability and promote shared ownership of quality

We 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.

What You’ll Need

• Proven experience as a Quality Engineer, or similar role within a modern engineering environment.

• Strong hands-on experience in test automation, API testing, non-functional testing, and embedding quality within CI/CD and DevSecOps practices

• Experience designing and maintaining test automation frameworks and integrating automated testing within delivery pipelines.

• Experience working with cloud-based systems, distributed architectures, and modern software delivery models.

• Strong understanding of quality engineering principles, including shift-left testing, testability, observability, resilience, and performance testing.

• Ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements in quality, performance, and delivery outcomes

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders.

• Passion for continuous improvement, mentoring others, and championing a culture of shared quality ownership.
• ISTQB Foundation Level certification, or equivalent experience demonstrating a strong understanding of software testing and quality engineering principles

What’s In It For You

Your work matters.

And the way we reward you matters, too.

At Skipton, we offer pay and benefits that really do make life better, together with a genuine thank you for making a difference.

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme

• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a max of 30 days

• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)

• Colleague Mortgages and access to Skipton products and services at discounted rates

• Flexible working to help balance your commitments

• Private medical insurance, health and wellbeing app, volunteering opportunities, cycle-to-work scheme, discounted gym memberships

• Lifestyle perks such as a Home and Tech voucher, which can be used at John Lewis, Currys, and IKEA

We’re here to make life better for our members.
About Skipton.

Our story began in 1853 in Skipton, North Yorkshire. Today, you’ll find us across England and Scotland, from Aberdeen to Plymouth.

We 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.

You'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.

What it's like to work here
Life at Skipton

We 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.

For 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.

We 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.

It’s not just our members who are important to us.
You are, too.

Lots 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.

Wellbeing 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. 

What’s more, it’s help that you can actually use too - not just read about.

Apply now

Sounds like you? Then apply now.

You 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. The rest can follow.