End Date
Tuesday 28 July 2026
Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780
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Lead Quality Engineer - IGA Automation
This role is for the Lead Quality Engineer within the Chief Security Office (CSO) IAM Lab, specialising in SailPoint's identity protection platform and SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ).
Will be an active member of the LBG QE Community, sharing knowledge to benefit the Group.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Lead Quality Engineer
SALARY: £72,702-£88,858
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
This role requires existing, hands-on familiarity with SailPoint IAM and automation-led quality engineering. For this role we need a strong candidate who will be able to hitting the ground running, taking over immediate Lead Testing duties to enable us to complete our overall end of year goals.
You will play a key role in ensuring Cloud IAM products are fit for purpose, compliant, and ready for use, supporting the organisation’s move towards cloud‑first identity and access services.
This role is for the Lead Quality Engineer within the Chief Security Office (CSO) IAM Lab, specialising in SailPoint's identity protection platform and SailPoint IdentityIQ (IIQ). This role involves moving between the two products as the change happens. This role focuses on providing quality engineering that prioritises automation for security-critical identity platforms, ensuring systems are resilient, scalable and production-ready.
The role is initially hands-on with ownership of automation frameworks, test strategy, and platform assurance, transitioning into broader leadership and capability ownership across IAM Quality Engineering.
What you’ll be doing:
Compose, build and manage automation frameworks for SailPoint IAM platforms
Own and continuously enhance regression test suites and platform health checks
Define and implement automation-first quality engineering strategy within IAM
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure deployment readiness
Own non-functional validation strategy to ensure platform resilience and performance
Collaborate with engineering and product teams to deliver secure, high-quality IAM solutions
Mentor and lead Quality Engineers with progression toward capability leadership
Why join us?
We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.
What we’re looking for:
Programming: Java (crucial) and Python, with strong experience in automation development
Automation Tools: Selenium, Playwright or equivalent
CI/CD: Jenkins or equivalent pipeline tooling
API Testing: REST API validation and automation
Version Control & Delivery: Git, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence
Hands-on delivery experience in SailPoint IAM (IdentityIQ and/or Identity Security Cloud), including implementation and operational contexts
Strong experience working within enterprise IAM / IGA platforms
Proven responsibility for automation frameworks and regression test packs (build, develop and ongoing maintenance)
Strong programming capability in Java (primary) alongside experience in Python and automation frameworks
Experience embedding automated testing in CI/CD processes, advancing to CD pipelines to ensure auditability
Experience leading or mentoring Quality Engineering teams, with clear ownership of delivery outcomes
Experience delivering non-functional testing (performance, resilience, scalability) within IAM platforms
And any of these would be great:
Experience with Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
Exposure to cloud IAM environments (Azure, GCP) – particularly in the context of SailPoint connectors and aggregation
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Like what you hear? Join us!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
