Lead Quality Engineer

JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer

SALARY: £72,702-£88,858

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Manchester, Bristol or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

This role requires existing, hands-on familiarity with SailPoint IAM and automation-led quality engineering. For this role we need a strong candidate who will be able to hitting the ground running, taking over immediate Lead Testing duties to enable us to complete our overall end of year goals.

You will play a key role in ensuring Cloud IAM products are fit for purpose, compliant, and ready for use, supporting the organisation's move towards cloud‑first identity and access services.

This role is for the Lead Quality Engineer within the Chief Security Office (CSO) IAM Lab, specialising in SailPoint's identity protection platform and SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ). This role involves moving between the two products as the change happens. This role focuses on providing quality engineering that prioritises automation for security-critical identity platforms, ensuring systems are resilient, scalable and production-ready.

The role is initially hands-on with ownership of automation frameworks, test strategy, and platform assurance, transitioning into broader leadership and capability ownership across IAM Quality Engineering.

What you'll be doing:

• Compose, build and manage automation frameworks for SailPoint IAM platforms

• Own and continuously enhance regression test suites and platform health checks

• Define and implement automation-first quality engineering strategy within IAM

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure deployment readiness

• Own non-functional validation strategy to ensure platform resilience and performance

• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver secure, high-quality IAM solutions

• Mentor and lead Quality Engineers with progression toward capability leadership

Why join us?

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we're looking for:

• Programming: Java (crucial) and Python, with strong experience in automation development

• Automation Tools: Selenium, Playwright or equivalent

• CI/CD: Jenkins or equivalent pipeline tooling

• API Testing: REST API validation and automation

• Version Control & Delivery: Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence

• Hands-on delivery experience in SailPoint IAM (IdentityIQ and/or Identity Security Cloud), including implementation and operational contexts

• Strong experience working within enterprise IAM / IGA platforms

• Proven responsibility for automation frameworks and regression test packs (build, develop and ongoing maintenance)

• Strong programming capability in Java (primary) alongside experience in Python and automation frameworks

• Experience embedding automated testing in CI/CD processes, advancing to CD pipelines to ensure auditability

• Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineering teams, with clear ownership of delivery outcomes

• Experience delivering non-functional testing (performance, resilience, scalability) within IAM platforms

And any of these would be great:

• Experience with Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)

• Exposure to cloud IAM environments (Azure, GCP) - particularly in the context of SailPoint connectors and aggregation

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

* An annual performance-related bonus

* Share schemes including free shares

* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Like what you hear? Join us!