Lead Quality Engineer

Lead Quality Engineer – LSEG

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About LSEG

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated open‑access partners with a focus on excellence in delivering the services our customers expect. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It has contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years.

Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services – and our open‑access model – we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity.

LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom with significant operations in 70 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ 25,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific.

People and Culture

People are at the heart of what we do. Our culture promotes connection, opportunity and excellence. We embrace diversity, foster teamwork, and encourage innovation. We offer growth opportunities across 70 countries and support employees in developing their skills and expertise.

Role Summary

Help lead quality initiatives that empower developers and improve testing practices across work streams.

What You'll Be Doing

• Act as a technical expert in automated testing for Java microservices.
• Coach developers to adopt strong unit, component and contract testing practices and embed quality early in the SDLC.
• Drive a microservices testing strategy: unit, component, contract and maintainable end‑to‑end tests.
• Encourage developers to run containerised services locally to avoid integration issues and keep pipelines clean in a trunk‑based development environment.
• Design and validate integration tests between Java services and AWS Lambda functions.
• Work in Agile/Scrum, lead refinement sessions, improve user stories and acceptance criteria, and promote BDD practices (3 Amigos, Gherkin/Cucumber).
• Collaborate across teams to ensure consistent quality practices and continuous improvement in frameworks and pipelines.
• Lead the quality space across multiple teams in a service family.

What You'll Bring

• Working with other Quality Engineers to build and maintain automated tests using Java (JUnit, Rest‑Assured) and Pact for contract testing.
• Experience with Selenium, Cypress and Playwright for UI testing (where applicable).
• Integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to support trunk‑based development.
• Strong experience in Java development and test automation.
• Knowledge of microservices testing strategies.
• Solid AWS platform expertise, including Lambda (for Java integration), API Gateway, S3, Cloud Watch and IAM.
• Proven ability to work in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience with CI/CD and trunk‑based development.
• Passion for continuous learning and enabling others.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable Skills

• Containerisation & orchestration:
  Docker, Kubernetes, EKS.
• Infrastructure as Code:
  Terraform, Cloud Formation.
• Service Mesh exposure:
  Istio.
• Advanced testing tools:
  Pact, Rest‑Assured, Mockito, Localstack.
• Observability: distributed tracing and monitoring in microservices.

Career Stage

Senior Associate

Benefits

LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We can accommodate religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs, in compliance with the law.

We are committed to sustainability across our global business and partner with customers to help them meet sustainability objectives. The LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence.

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