Introduction
Are you an experienced Quality Engineer who wants to measurably improve software quality, reduce late-stage defects and increase confidence in releases?
In this role, you ensure teams deliver software backed by clear, measurable quality signals, not only from testing, but from real system behaviour in production. You embed quality across the full lifecycle, from design (shift-left) to production validation (shift-right), and help teams build systems that remain reliable under scale, high data volume and real user traffic.
You operate in a high-scale B2C/SaaS environment, where systems, integrations and data pipelines must continuously perform under load.
You act as a trusted quality partner, helping teams anticipate risks early and build systems that are observable, testable and resilient by design.
This is not a traditional QA role. You are not responsible for executing test cases or acting as a final gate. Instead, you enable teams to take shared ownership of quality, using data, metrics and system insights to continuously improve.
As Quality Engineer, you’ll:
• Reduce late-stage defects by identifying risks early, including design, data flows, integrations and scale
• Increase release confidence using quality gates driven by metrics and real system signals
• Ensure data pipelines, integrations and services remain stable under load and volume
• Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines and enable continuous testing
• Use observability, including logs, metrics and traces, to validate behaviour and detect issues in production
You'd describe yourself as follows:
• You have 5+ years of experience as a modern Quality Engineer in CI/CD-driven environments
• You design testing strategies across unit, integration, contract and end-to-end layers, based on risk
• You understand how systems behave under scale, load and high data throughput
• You have experience in B2C, SaaS or high-traffic environments where failures have real impact
• You are comfortable working with metrics such as MTTR, failure rates and performance thresholds
Compensation
• Salary range approximately £47,000 to £60,000
• In addition, we offer an annual bonus
About the team
You will join one of our cross-functional product teams within the Technology & Digital department. These teams build and maintain secure, scalable digital platforms that support our lotteries across multiple countries. Engineers, Product Owners and Architects work closely together to continuously improve reliability, performance and user experience.
At the Postcode Lottery Group, our goal is to turn every home’s postcode into a ticket for good. We want everyone to have the chance to win prizes with their neighbours, while contributing each month to a healthier, fairer and greener world.
That’s what we call the Power of Postcodes.
The support of almost 15 million Postcode Lottery players in the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, Germany and Norway already benefits more than 500 major charities. Thousands of local good causes receive funding too.
Their work is strengthening communities. Protecting nature. Investing in culture. Improving our health and well-being. Safeguarding human rights.
The Postcode Lottery Group’s mission is to raise long-term and flexible funding so charities can achieve the maximum impact.
Every day of the year, our players raise more than €2.5 million for good causes. In 2024, the total was €969 million. And since the first Postcode Lottery was launched in the Netherlands in 1989, more than €15 billion has been donated to charities.
The Postcode Lottery Group is a private company, fully owned by a non-profit foundation and headquartered in Amsterdam. We have been ranked as the third largest private donor in the world, following the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust. (World Charity Index, 2021).
