Associate Quality Engineer Full Time

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best. 

Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

Job Description

We are seeking a motivated and aspiring Quality Engineer to join our engineering team. In this role, you will build on your emerging software testing skills to validate new features, identify defects, and contribute to improving our ways of working. Through hands‑on learning and collaboration, you will help deliver reliable, high‑quality software that creates real value for our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Continuously developing your skills and capability by undertaking relevant training and learning opportunities within your quality engineering discipline
• Contributing as part of a collaborative engineering team to test features, identify defects, and help deliver high‑quality outcomes for our customers
• Participating in feature refinement activities to ensure quality is embedded early and solutions are well understood before development begins
• Supporting code review activities to help maintain high standards of quality, reliability, and alignment with defined customer outcomes
• Actively engaging in team meetings to share knowledge, stay informed, and contribute to continuous improvement across the team
• Providing clear and timely updates, and working closely with team members to support smooth and effective delivery of development activities
• Collaborating openly across disciplines to promote quality, consistency, and shared ownership of outcomes
• Supporting the team in ensuring all customers and stakeholders are treated fairly and consistently, in line with Legal & General’s Customer Experience principles and Consumer Duty commitments

Who we’re looking for:

• Experience working in a quality‑focused or closely related role, with exposure to software delivery or engineering environments
• Strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate ideas, issues, and outcomes
• A curious mindset with a passion for creative problem‑solving and continuous improvement.
• The ability to work effectively as part of a collaborative team, contributing positively to shared goals
• A proactive approach to personal development, demonstrating ownership of learning and a willingness to build new skills

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• We’re creating net‑zero carbon workplaces by 2030 by investing in our sustainable, modern offices across the UK, all designed to bring people together and elevate the in‑person experience

Additional Information

At L&G, we believe it’s possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.