Lead Supplier Quality Engineer - London, United Kingdom - MetroBank

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    Chapter Lead - Quality Engineering Productivity
    Team IT, IT & Change
    Location Holborn Office

    At Metro Bank, people come first - our culture is all about bringing the best out in our colleagues, and making sure everyone feels valued, respected, seen and included.

    We strongly believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace and to find the very best person for the job, we always look across a wide range of diverse communities.

    Define the quality guardrails and quality engineering strategy aligned to the bank's objectives


    • Ensure that quality standards are maintained for all stages of the software development lifecycle (SDLC)
    • Design and implement technical solutions to enforce the guardrails e.g. automated quality gates in build pipelines
    • Promote ownership of quality by all parties involved in delivering change e.g. product owners, tech leads, software engineers, operations.
    • Drive the adoption of test automation frameworks and tools to increase testing efficiency
    • Define and implement tooling that make it easy for feature teams to test their changes e.g. native test automation frameworks, test data self-service APIs.
    • And we are a bank so risk is a part of everything we do. Understand the risks associated with your job and what that means for you, Metro Bank and all our stakeholders
    • Proficiency in either Java, JavaScript or C# and comfortable with shell scripting, SQL, JSON and YAML.
    • Strong understanding of software development methodologies, including experience with CI/CD DevOps tooling, preferably Azure DevOps, Jira and Xray APIs
    • Has working knowledge of Microservices, MongoDB, Kafka, Databases, event driven architecture, etc.
    We will make sure that you are well-rewarded by providing you with a competitive salary, discretionary annual bonus, and a wide range of benefits, including generous holiday allowance, attractive pension scheme, healthcare, life assurance, and a number of colleague discounts


    • We will give you the training to ensure you succeed in your role and plenty of internal opportunities to progress your career (around 40% of our recruitment comes from internal promotions).
    • We are also all about balance so most of our jobs offer the opportunity for hybrid working built around your role and home life, wherever possible.

    We know that candidates (especially women, research tells us) may be put off applying for a job unless they can tick every box.

    We also know that 'normal' office hours aren't always doable, and while we can't accommodate every flexible working request we are happy to be asked.