Lead Test Engineer - Vice President

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The High Value Payments Team is looking for an experienced Lead Test Engineer to work on a complex, mission‑critical payments system. The ideal professional will have extensive experience with testing, monitoring, and supporting distributed systems written in Java. The team’s payments platform is currently a combination of Spring Boot applications and classic JEE applications, hosted on premises via Open Shift and other legacy managed services.

We plan to upgrade and modernise this platform and need people eager to dive in and get their hands dirty. This is a good opportunity for somebody who wants meaningful hands‑on experience transforming a critical high‑volume application.

• A diverse and inclusive environment that embraces change, innovation and collaboration
• A hybrid working model with up to 60% work from home, allowing for in‑office / work from home flexibility, generous vacation, personal and volunteer days and a commitment to Corporate Social Responsibility
• Employee Resource Groups support an inclusive workplace for everyone and promote community engagement
• Access to a strong network of Communities of Practice connecting you to colleagues with shared interests and values
• Competitive compensation packages including health and wellbeing benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave, family building benefits and educational resources, matching gift and volunteer programmes

• Lead automated testing efforts for a complex distributed system for both front and back‑end components
• Automate legacy manual testing efforts and improve existing automated testing
• Advocate for, design, develop and deliver testing frameworks as appropriate, which bring a sense of confidence to product deliveries
• Mentor other SDETs and Engineers of all levels within the team on testing theory and practice
• Collaborate, maintain clear and open communication with the team, and share experience with the entire Engineering organisation

• Strong mentoring and coaching experience
• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship and problem‑solving skills

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required and extensive hands‑on experience in testing of scalable, available, resilient and observable large‑scale distributed banking/finance applications
• Ability to work with both Business and technical stakeholders to create a coherent and comprehensive test plan
• Experience thoroughly testing software applications via unit, integration, end‑to‑end, load testing and the ability to discuss when and where to use each of these
• Experience with Gatling, Selenium, Playwright and JUnit
• Familiarity with testing various web/RPC services (e.g. REST, SOAP, gRPC), database technologies (e.g. SQL, Oracle, Mongo
  
  DB), messaging (JMS, Kafka) and containerisation platforms (Open Shift, Kubernetes)

• Experience migrating applications from on‑prem to cloud (we use GCP, but any cloud deployment experience is desirable)
• Domain experience with payments, banking, finance or in another highly regulated environment is a plus
• Excellent communication, collaboration, mentorship and problem‑solving skills; creatively solve complex problems and take ownership of the solution until its completion
• Intolerance for manual testing
• Working knowledge of Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Sonar Qube and static analysis tools are nice to have

It is the Bank’s expectation that employees hired into this role will work in…