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Quality Lead
Quality Lead – Castle Project Team
About the Role
We’re seeking an experienced Quality Lead to join our growing team and help shape the future within N Brown’s new ‘start-up’ division. You’ll lead quality efforts on the Castle project, a groundbreaking financial services platform built using an agentic manufacturing line approach.
As the Quality Lead, you’ll:
- Define quality requirements for our agentic cells and ensure alignment with industry best practices
- Oversee quality standards and continuous testing—balancing human-led and AI-driven delivery
- Champion iterative engineering and modern agentic development in a lean, start-up-like environment
This is a chance to innovate at the intersection of software engineering and AI-driven quality assurance, while operating within a dynamic, fast-moving team embedded in an established organisation.
Person Specification
We’re looking for a driven, curious professional with:
- A strong ‘why?’ mindset—constantly questioning and improving processes
- Tenacity to deliver outcomes, even when challenges arise
- Decisive focus and the ability to ruthlessly prioritise
- Collaborative energy and a champion of radical candour
- A belief that fun and effort go hand in hand
Key Responsibilities
Quality Strategy & Leadership
- Define and maintain an end-to-end quality strategy, ensuring "quality in" rather than "quality check"
- Set standards, best practices, and requirements for agentic cells (AI-driven and human-led teams)
- Collaborate with Product Owners, Technical Leads, and cell members to embed reliable, secure, scalable quality practices
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AI-Agents & Automation
- Supervise AI agents generating test coverage, regression suites, and defect detection, while continuously refining their capabilities
- Drive agent-led testing, continuous testing, and AI-assisted quality improvements
- Implement tools, frameworks, or Prompt Engineering to uplift quality across cells
- Own technical acceptance criteria for the financial services platform
Process & Compliance
- Ensure consistency across cells via:
- Code review feedback
- Tooling adoption (monitoring, testing frameworks)
- Quality framework compliance
- Reduce testing-related debt (e.g., flaky tests, outdated frameworks, missing automation)
- Maintain test data availability and environment readiness to minimise delivery delays
Skills & Experience
Core Technical Knowledge
- Test strategy, planning, and management (ISTQB’s Advanced Level Test Manager certification is desirable)
- Automated functional testing (Jest, Cypress, Playwright)
- Performance testing (JMeter)
- Test data management
- Applications & platforms:
- Microservices, APIs
- JavaScript & TypeScript
- Node.js, npm
- Git (GitLab recommended)
- Monitoring tools (Grafana, Kibana)
- Agile development methodologies
- ALM tools (Jira, Confluence)
Agentic & AI-driven Testing
- Experience with agent-led test authoring
- Prompt & context engineering for test design and defect triage
- Proficient in AI-assisted quality processes
Why Join N Brown?
Competitive Benefits
✅ Hybrid Working – Flexibility tailored to team & role needs ✅ Salary up to £85,000 (based on experience) ✅ 24 days holiday + 8 bank holidays ✅ Annual bonus scheme ✅ Enhanced maternity/adoption leave ✅ Company pension (up to 8% N Brown contribution) ✅ ** Nazis H KSAssurance + Private Medical Insurance** ✅ Financial wellbeing support:
- Stream – Early pay access & budget tracking
- Discounts on N Brown brands (fashion, tech, payments) ✅ Paid volunteer time (1 full day leave per year for charity work)
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Culture & Values
N Brown is Manchester-headquartered, UK’s leading digital retail platform (JD Williams, Jacamo, Simply Be + payments). Our mission:
“To champion inclusivity and serve the underserved.”
Why we stand out: 🔹 #1 for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging – awarded Sunday Times Best Places to Work (2024) 🔹 Forward-thinking: AI is embedded in our future – we empower teams to learn, test, and adopt AI ethically 🔹 Onsite café with subsidised rates & local restaurant discounts
Working at N Brown
Hybrid Flexibility
- Base in Northern Quarter, Manchester (excellent transport links + vibrant food/cultural scene)
- Results-driven working hours: 36.17 hrs/week (5 days)
- Full support for professional growth, including peer mentorship & external wellbeing services
Our Commitment to You
- We’re an equal opportunity employer – no discrimination based on: Race | Religion | Gender | Sexual orientation | Age | Disability | Veteran status | Etc.
- Your application is reviewed by real people – we value your time & interest!
Impact your skills by joining us! A financial services revolution is underway—will you help build it? 🚀
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