Lead Quality Engineer & DevOps - Prudential & Analytics platformLocation: Leeds, Edinburgh, London, Halifax
Time Type: Full time
Posted On: Posted Yesterday
End Date: November 22, 2024
Salary Range: £86,964-£102,310 (Outside London), £100,657-£118,420 (London)
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary We are seeking an experienced Lead Quality Engineer/DevOps for Prudential & Analytics platform to drive the testing strategy and ensure the reliability, performance, and security of our risk management platforms.
As a lead, you will oversee the design and implementation of automated testing frameworks, ensuring that platforms meet the highest standards of compliance and accuracy. You will drive modernized engineering practice through modern cloud practices, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD).
You will work closely with software engineering, data engineering, product owners, architects, and risk business teams to create a quality-first culture that ensures systems operate with precision, speed, scalability, and security, aligning with both business goals and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities: Quality Strategy and Leadership:Define and implement the overall quality strategy for prudential & analytics platform, driving and delivering automated testing, performance, security, and compliance.Collaborate with product owners, risk scientists, developers, architects to establish clear testing objectives, review test cases and test scripts to be aligned with business and regulatory needs.Lead and mentor a team of quality engineers, ensuring best practices are followed across all testing efforts.Automation and Testing Frameworks:Design, develop, and maintain automated testing frameworks for end-to-end testing of platform.Implement continuous integration, continuous deployment and continuous testing pipelines to enable fast, reliable testing as part of the DevOps process.Ensure the coverage of functional, non-functional, integration, regression, and performance testing for Prudential & Analytics platform applications.CI/CD Pipeline & Cloud Infrastructure Management:Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous deployment and integration of risk management applications.Automate deployment workflows to ensure fast, reliable, and secure releases of risk systems, while minimizing manual intervention.Work closely with development and quality teams to integrate testing frameworks into the pipeline, enabling continuous testing.Manage and automate infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code to ensure consistency, scalability, and security.Leverage cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP) to build and manage scalable environments that support large-scale risk calculations and data processing.Compliance and Security Testing:Develop and execute compliance and security testing protocols to ensure that platforms meet regulatory requirements.Ensure that risk systems adhere to banking standards for data protection, encryption, and secure access.Test Data Management and Monitoring:Implement strategies for test data management to support complex testing scenarios for credit, market, and liquidity risk platforms.Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to build real-time monitoring and alerting into the testing process to identify issues early.Defect Management and Quality Metrics:Oversee the defect management process, ensuring that issues are logged, tracked, and resolved efficiently.Define and track key quality metrics to continuously improve the quality of risk platforms.Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement:Work closely with development, DevOps, and security teams to ensure alignment on quality goals and processes.Collaborate with risk officers and regulatory teams to ensure alignment with banking regulatory standards.Communicate testing results and quality insights to business stakeholders.Key Qualifications: 10+ years of experience in quality engineering and DevOps with a preferred experience in financial services or risk management.Proven experience in leading quality engineering efforts, particularly in financial services or banking risk systems.Strong expertise in test automation tools and scripting languages.Strong knowledge of cloud platforms and Infrastructure-as-Code tools.Experience with Agile software development practice.Strong leadership skills with the ability to mentor, lead, and inspire a team of quality engineers.We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: A generous pension contribution of up to 15%An annual bonus award, subject to Group performanceShare schemes including free shares30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on topReady for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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