Engineering Lead (QA)
London Stock Exchange Group2 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain the automation test strategy, target architecture, reusable patterns, standards, tooling choices, and governance for the FTSE Russell Test Framework.
- Design, develop, review, and improve reusable automated testing framework capabilities and representative tests using Python and Pytest.
- Set testing approaches across functional, integration, API, data, performance, resilience, security, and regression testing.
- Integrate automated testing and quality gates into GitLab CI/CD workflows in an AWS environment.
- Identify test coverage gaps, duplication, instability, and recurring failures, and guide practical quality improvements.
- Establish approaches for data quality validation, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, and reconciliation.
- Provide technical direction through design discussions, code and framework reviews, and support for complex testing challenges.
- Coach and mentor Test Engineers, SDETs, and developers on test automation, framework use, and quality engineering practices.
- Partner with product, engineering, architecture, and operations stakeholders to improve testability, communicate quality risks, and encourage shared ownership.
Requirements
- 12+ years of professional experience in software testing, test automation, or quality engineering, including substantial hands-on technical work.
- Experience owning or defining test automation strategy, test architecture, engineering standards, tooling choices, and governance.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python, Pytest, Playwright, Pytest-bdd, and Requests.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD workflows using GitLab.
- Experience with AWS-hosted systems and test environments, Docker, Kubernetes, and database/SQL architecture.
- Broad knowledge of functional, integration, API, data, performance, resilience, security, and regression testing.
- Experience building or evolving reusable test frameworks and improving automation maintainability, reliability, and adoption.
- Essential knowledge of the financial services domain.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams while remaining hands-on.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for explaining architecture, test strategy, and quality risks to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits are provided.
- Retirement planning support is provided.
- Paid volunteering days are offered.
- Wellbeing initiatives and tailored employee support are available.
- The role is associated with LSEG’s London operation; no specific remote or office schedule is stated.
About London Stock Exchange Group
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) provides market infrastructure, financial data, and analytics to banks, asset managers, and corporations. Its businesses span capital markets (London Stock Exchange), post-trade clearing (LCH), and information services including FTSE Russell indices and the Refinitiv data platform, funded by transaction fees, subscriptions, and licensing. Headquartered in London and publicly listed on the LSE, the group serves global customers seeking trading, clearing, benchmarks, and enterprise data solutions.