Squad Test Lead- Fintech

We have an exciting opportunity within our Fintech team for a Squad Test Lead. In this role you’ll be the primary point of contact for all testing activity within your squad, responsible for advancing excellence in a given squad and/or one or more quality domains by running and evolving the associated Quality Guild (such as Time Travel Testing, Event Testing or Data Management).

What will you do as a Squad Test Lead at N Brown?

• Act as the technical authority and coach, guiding and supporting testers and engineers across squads in best practices, tooling, frameworks, and implementation techniques.
• Focus on hands-on leadership, embedding yourself where needed to uplift capability and remove blockers to adoption.
• Embedded within a delivery squad as the testing lead and primary point of contact for all quality-related activity, and contribute directly to team outcomes, ensuring you stay close to real-world challenges and maintain practical credibility.
• Working with Squad stakeholders to advocate for the goals of the guild and the progression of guild priorities within squads where appropriate.
• Encourage alignment between squads by facilitating the adoption of shared practices, without allowing the guild to become siloed or function as a separate team.
• Collaborate with colleagues in the wider group and programme, in respect to your respective domain.
• Working closely with the Quality Manager, contributing to the broader Quality Strategy by maintaining a deep and current understanding of their specialty and feeding domain specific needs into the overall roadmap.
• Provide line management for colleagues within your squad, including career development support, coaching, and feedback.
• While you do not own quality across the platform, you are accountable for ensuring your domain is well-understood, adopted consistently, and delivering measurable value within and across squads.
• Foster cross-squad collaboration through guild ceremonies, technical forums, and playbooks, driving the evolution of standards and the sharing of knowledge across the organisation.
• Where applicable, own a cross-squad Quality Guild for key testing initiatives, leading its direction, ceremonies, and the adoption of shared practices across the organisation.

What skills and experience will you have?

• Hands on leadership within a quality engineering team
• Team leadership skills for example; career coaching and development, embedding best practices, tooling, frameworks, and implementation techniques.
• Hands-on experience writing and maintaining automated functional/E2E tests using TypeScript and Jest, with a focus on stability and maintainability.
• Experience designing and executing performance and load tests using tools like JMeter, with a deep understanding of interpreting metrics and tuning systems.
• Experience with Monitoring tools, including Grafana, Kibana

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid working 
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme 
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave 
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution 
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services  
• A range of financial wellbeing support  
• Stream - a financial wellbeing tool that helps you track your pay, access earnings early and manage your money with confidence
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands 
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts! 
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance 
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice  

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?  

N Brown is a leading UK digital retail platform for clothing, footwear, home and technology, headquartered in Manchester and employing over 1,200 people nationwide. Through our strategic retail brands JD Williams, Jacamo and Simply Be and our unique payments offering, we exist to champion inclusivity and serve the underserved. Our customers are our passion, and we take great pride in delivering products that ensure they can look and feel amazing, without compromising on choice, value and accessibility. 

We’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list - as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafes, trendy bars and the best places to eat!

Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am - 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Please know your application is being reviewed by a real human being, not AI. We value your interest in joining us and appreciate you taking the time to submit your application.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!