Quality Engineer
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Quality Engineer
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK's leading Wealth & Investments group. Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry's best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders and society. We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, Interactive Investor (II), Investments and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients' evolving needs:
- Interactive Investor, the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.
- Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
- Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About the role
As a Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring that quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Reporting to the Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, you will work closely with engineers, product managers, and designers to champion a quality-first mindset, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of reliability, usability, and performance.
This role is a blend of quality assurance and quality coaching, where you will not only test software but also mentor developers on best practices, define test strategies, and advocate for testing from the customer's perspective. You will drive both manual and automated testing approaches, selecting the best tools for the job in a polyglot environment.
In this role you will be able to make a real impact by ensuring our products are high-quality, user-friendly, and resilient. You will be working with modern testing approaches, including automation, performance testing, and CI/CD-driven quality strategies.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and execute both automated and manual tests, ensuring software meets functional and non-functional requirements.
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure quality is built in from the start.
- Guide teams in test planning and execution, ensuring coverage for performance, security, accessibility, and usability.
- Foster a quality-first mindset, mentoring engineers on best practices in testing, CI/CD, and automation.
- Develop and maintain automated test suites, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate feedback loops.
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability concerns, ensuring the best customer experience.
- Advocate for service reliability and real-world testing scenarios, considering performance under load, failover conditions, and system resilience.
- Write clear and reproducible defect reports and contribute to technical documentation.
- Take a polyglot approach to testing tools, selecting the best frameworks for different tech stacks and projects.
- Continuously improve QA processes, sharing knowledge with the wider team and driving quality initiatives.
About the candidate
- Experience in manual and automated testing, with an understanding of when to apply each.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, JUnit, Postman, or similar).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing.
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think like a customer, ensuring usability and accessibility.
- Experience working in agile environments, embedding testing within cross-functional teams.
- A proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve quality and streamline testing processes.
- Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with the ability to mentor engineers on best practices in quality.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days' annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients' changing needs.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we'd like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we've adopted a 'blended working' approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we'll be happy to help.