AI-Driven Quality Engineer (Hybrid)

Aflac Northern Ireland; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aflac Northern Ireland is seeking a talented Quality Engineer to join our high-performing engineering teams in Belfast. You will champion quality across the full software development lifecycle, from discovery to production, using AI-assisted tooling and modern quality practices.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Engineers, Security, and Support to define testing approaches, automation, and quality metrics that enable secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, software testing, or software development.
• Experience defining and executing testing strategies for complex web, cloud or distributed systems.
• Strong experience with Playwright, Robot Framework or equivalent automation tools.
• Experience building and maintaining automated tests within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to improve testing effectiveness and productivity.
• Strong understanding of Agile delivery and DevOps practices.
• Understanding of security, privacy, compliance and governance requirements.
• Excellent communication and coaching skills.
• Applicants must be located in Northern Ireland and hold the relevant right to work status. We are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Champion quality across the software development lifecycle, from discovery to production.
• Combine hands-on testing with modern quality engineering practices and AI-assisted tooling.
• Define quality strategies, testing approaches, and engineering standards with cross-functional teams.
• Coach engineers to build quality into solutions from the outset.

Skills

Software quality engineering

Test automation mindset

CI/CD collaboration

Agile and DevOps

Communication coaching

AI-assisted testing awareness

Tools

Playwright

Robot Framework

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

AWS

Observability tools

Job description

Aflac Northern Ireland is seeking a talented Quality Engineer to join our high-performing engineering teams in Belfast. You will champion quality across the full software development lifecycle, from discovery to production, using AI-assisted tooling and modern quality practices.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Engineers, Security, and Support to define testing approaches, automation, and quality metrics that enable secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.