Software Engineer - Quality Assurance

Lendscape builds lending software used by financial institutions across the UK, Europe, Aisa and the United States. As we grow, our Account Management function is the engine of client retention and expansion. 

*6 month, FTC*

Overview

The Software Engineer in Quality is a senior engineering role focused on building and embedding quality engineering practices across the organisation. This is not a traditional testing role — the successful candidate will bring strong software engineering skills to bear on the challenge of ensuring our software is testable, observable, and reliably high-quality. Working alongside Senior QA Engineers within the Quality Assurance team, this person will own the tools, frameworks, and pipelines that underpin quality at Lendscape. A significant part of the role will include leveraging AI tools to migrate frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Cypress Migration: Lead the migration from the legacy QFTest suite to our existing Cypress framework, expanding coverage and improving maintainability in the process.
• Test Pipeline Engineering: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD testing pipelines to enable fast, reliable feedback across the engineering organisation.
• Performance Testing: Establish and own our performance testing capability, including selection and implementation of an appropriate toolset (e.g. k6, Gatling, or JMeter) and integration into release processes.
• Coverage Measurement: Maintain and improve test coverage reporting using JaCoCo, defining coverage standards and working with engineering teams to close gaps.
• Quality Standards: Define and champion quality engineering standards and best practices across the engineering organisation, including testability requirements, coding standards, and quality gates.
• Shift-Left Testing: Embed quality thinking earlier in the development lifecycle by working closely with product managers, developers, and architects during design and planning.
• Tooling & Observability: Evaluate, introduce, and maintain static analysis, code quality, and observability tooling to support engineering teams in identifying and resolving issues early.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Senior QA Engineers and software developers to identify automation opportunities, share knowledge, and raise the quality bar across the team.

Skills and Experience

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, with hands-on experience writing and maintaining Cypress test suites.
• Excellent knowledge of AI tooling and the ability to leverage AI effectively in engineering and quality workflows, especially for migration of frameworks.
• Solid Java knowledge sufficient to read, understand, and work within a Java/Spring Boot codebase — writing Java tests is not required.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally including test automation stages.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, Gatling, or JMeter.
• Familiarity with code coverage tooling, particularly JaCoCo.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.
• Experience with automated API testing.
• Proficiency with Git and version control best practices.
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• Ability to define and communicate quality standards and advocate for quality engineering practices across teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in root cause analysis and defect investigation.
• Bonus: familiarity with QFTest or experience migrating from legacy test frameworks.

Requirements

Skills and Experience

• Strong JavaScript/TypeScript skills, with hands-on experience writing and maintaining Cypress test suites.
• Excellent knowledge of AI tooling and the ability to leverage AI effectively in engineering and quality workflows, especially for migration of frameworks.
• Solid Java knowledge sufficient to read, understand, and work within a Java/Spring Boot codebase — writing Java tests is not required.
• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, ideally including test automation stages.
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6, Gatling, or JMeter.
• Familiarity with code coverage tooling, particularly JaCoCo.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies: unit, integration, end-to-end, regression, and performance testing.
• Experience with automated API testing.
• Proficiency with Git and version control best practices.
• Ability to define and communicate quality standards and advocate for quality engineering practices across teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with experience in root cause analysis and defect investigation.
• Bonus: familiarity with QFTest or experience migrating from legacy test frameworks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Proven track record as a software engineer with a strong quality engineering focus.
• Experience working in Agile environments.

Benefits

• Private medical care and cash plan
• Flexible working hours
• Continuous training
• Cycle scheme and sponsored gym
• Learning and development
• Wellness and mindfulness perks
• Colleague volunteering
• Life assurance
• Work alongside a team developing and delivering innovative technology that creates huge value for a variety of local and international clients

Our culture

We are very proud of our culture and our way of working. Below are our shared values and behaviours that make up our work environment and our day-to-day experience at Lendscape.

Achieve great things, together:  We are supportive and empathetic, always available to lend a hand when needed.

Go above and beyond for customers:  We are customer centric and give 100% to deliver exceptional outcomes. Everyone is willing to go the extra mile to solve the customer’s biggest challenges and help them get ahead.

Embrace every opportunity:  We’re inspired by opportunities to sustainably grow ourselves. Lendscape and our customers.

Rise to the challenge:  We are self-motivated, empowered with flexibility and autonomy to work in our best way.

What to expect

We appreciate you taking the time to apply to this role with us, and we are committed to making your journey with us as positive as possible. Interviews are a team effort and we’re keen to address any queries you may have and to determine if you equally feel if we are the right choice for your career.