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Senior Test Engineer

Senior Test Engineer

AJ BellHybrid, United Kingdom
8 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

Due to growth, we're now recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer to join our Investcentre team and help enhance our award-winning platform.

You will be joining a team which has a philosophy of continuous improvement, and a strong focus on engineering excellence.

What does the job involve?

  • Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and working in a high-performance engineering team.
  • Work with the team to design and deliver high quality products.
  • At AJ Bell we pair programme, and in most cases will pair with other members of the team.

What you'll have

  • Understand and interpret business, functional, and technical requirements.
  • Lead conversations in stand-up, refinement, and retrospective sessions.
  • Automation - fix, maintain, and write new automation tests for our websites and API’s.
  • Lead others in using various testing tools to meet test requirements.
  • Experienced and confident enough to have input with developers and their approach to development level testing.
  • Mentor junior test engineers. Pairing with them via ongoing project work to upskill.
  • Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge. and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
  • Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - including UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all these systems including end to end testing.
  • Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools
  • Work alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
  • Identify opportunities for testing improvement in existing or new functionality, explore suitable testing solutions, and demo POC where required.
  • You proactively seek Development, Design, Architecture, or specialised input when needed, and you know when it’s needed.
  • Support User Acceptance Testing and release to Production.
  • Agile / Scrum / Kanban.
  • Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
  • Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm.
  • E-commerce and / or financial services experience.

    • About us

    AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

    Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

    Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.

    At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.

    Our perks and benefits

  • Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
  • Holiday buy and sell scheme
  • A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
  • Discretionary bonus scheme
  • Annual free share awards scheme
  • Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
  • Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth
  • Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
  • Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Bike loan scheme
  • Sick pay+ pledge
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  • Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
  • Loans for travel season tickets
  • Death in service scheme
  • Paid time off for volunteer work
  • Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
  • Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
  • Parking at Exchange Quay
  • Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
  • Ongoing technical training
  • Professional qualification support
  • Talent management programmes
  • Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
  • Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
  • Casual dress code
  • Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

    • Hybrid working

    At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the Manchester office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

    AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

    We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.

    If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you.

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