Senior Test Engineer

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 542,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £86.5 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to …