NatWest Group
Website:
jobs.natwestgroup.com
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/natwest-group
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
Join us asanNFTLead
- You’llprovide leadership across Non-Functional Testing (NFT) & Assurance, promoting quality excellence and securing compliance with the bank’s standards,policiesand controls
- You’llplay a key role in enabling the safe and seamless transition of change from development into live environments through effective quality assurance practices
- Build yourexpertisein quality engineering while working with a broad range of stakeholders across a collaborative and fast-paced technology environment
- We are offering this role at vice president level
Whatyou’lldo
In this key role,you’lllead our end-to-end NFT strategy, making sure only well-designed solutions progress through quality assurance, with strong emphasis on performance,resilienceand scalability.You’lldefine, shape, and assure Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs), making sure they are measurable,testableand embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.
You’llhelp deliver the right outcomes for customers first time through modern testing approaches, using automation as an accelerator, and collaborating closely with stakeholders across Agile teams.We’llalso look to you to develop robust NFT strategies and test plans that support the continuous flow of change across the domain, platform valuestreamor programme.
Your Work Will Focus On
- Undertaking end-to-end test management, including planning, governance, risk, issue and dependency management, and lessons learned
- Driving shift-left NFT practices through modern tooling, cloud-native performancetestingand CI/CD integration to strengthen resilience and delivery confidence
- Leveraging AI, intelligent automation, and agent-based frameworks to accelerate NFT execution, defect detection, and predictive insights
- Working with quality automation specialists to develop and execute automated tests through CI/CD pipelines, enabling rapid feedback and efficient defect detection
- Securing operational resilience readiness through failover, recovery, and capacity validation activities
- Championing customer-centric quality practices, so defects are prioritised and resolved early to improve solutions and deliver right-first-time customer outcomes
- Producing NFT assurance reporting for senior stakeholders and governance forums
The skillsyou'llneed
We’relooking for someone with proven experience applying testing methodologies, including Agile approaches such as test-driven development and behaviour driven development.You'llbringexpertiseacross a broad range of test automation tools, alongside experience delivering testing activities throughout the systems development lifecycle within technology environments.
You’llalso have deepexpertiseacross non-functional testing disciplines, including performance, load, stress and volume testing, resilience, failover and availability testing, and collaboration on security and penetration testing activities.
You’llalsodemonstrate
- Strong capability in defining,validatingand assuring NFRs throughout the delivery lifecycle
- Experience using AI-enabled testing, intelligentautomationor agent-based approaches to improve test design, execution, and defect prediction
- Familiarity with observability tools such as Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana and Prometheus to validate NFRs in production
- Practical experience testing ideas,productsand designs, from planning through to execution
- Experience across functional and non-functional testing, including system integration, user, accessibility,compatibilityand back-out testing
- The ability to relate day-to-day activities to the strategicobjectivesof feature, platform,domainand enterprise teams, with a strong focus on business outcomes
- Strong communicationskills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to peers,stakeholdersand senior management
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