Quality Engineering Manager in Skipton

Position Overview

Hours: 35 hr per week
Closing Date: Sat, 23 May 2026

We’re looking for a Quality Engineering Manager to shape how we build quality into everything we deliver. If you’re passionate about modern engineering practices, embedding quality at speed, and leading teams to deliver reliable, high‑performing software, this is your opportunity to drive real impact across our technology landscape.

About Us

We’re the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we’re a mutual organisation. We don’t have shareholders; we’re owned by our members. Skipton is a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do.

Team

You will be joining our Engineering and Quality community, working across multiple platforms, products, and delivery teams. This is a highly collaborative environment where Quality Engineering partners closely with Product, DevSecOps, Architecture, and Service Operations to embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

This role operates across multiple teams, influencing how quality is engineered into our platforms from the outset. You’ll play a key role in shaping quality strategy, improving delivery performance, and ensuring teams are equipped with the tools, environments, and practices needed to deliver high-quality software at pace. Alongside this, you’ll lead and develop quality engineering capability, building a strong community of practice across the organisation.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Defining and delivering a modern Quality Engineering strategy that embeds testing within CI/CD pipelines and supports fast, reliable software delivery.
• Driving improvements across engineering performance metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and defect escape rates.
• Leading the adoption of shift‑left practices including contract, performance, resilience, and security testing within automated pipelines.
• Shaping quality standards, tooling, and frameworks to enable consistent, scalable, and efficient testing across platforms and teams.
• Leading, coaching, and developing Quality Engineering capability, building a strong, collaborative community and raising standards across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading Quality Engineering or Test functions within complex, modern engineering environments.
• Strong background in test automation, non‑functional testing, and embedding quality within CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience working with cloud‑based systems, distributed architectures, and modern software delivery models.Ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements in quality, performance, and delivery outcomes.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across engineering, product, and business teams.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• A commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available to join, including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• Cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

Other Details

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.