QA Engineer

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 is building the specialist capability required to move AI from experimentation into scaled business impact. These roles will help transform customer and employee experiences, strengthen our enterprise AI, cloud and data foundations, and embed AI throughout the software development lifecycle so our teams can deliver better solutions faster, safely and responsibly.

We are looking for a talented Quality Engineer to join one of our high-performing engineering teams. Our teams are responsible for delivering innovative solutions across web, mobile, cloud, low-code and AI-enabled platforms, all designed to improve outcomes and experiences for our policyholders.

This is not a traditional testing role. You will champion quality across the entire software development lifecycle, helping teams build quality into products from discovery and planning through to production. You will combine hands-on testing expertise with modern quality engineering practices, AI-assisted tooling, automation, observability, and coaching to drive higher levels of quality, reliability, and delivery confidence.

As Aflac continues to adopt AI-enabled engineering and intelligent software solutions, you will play a key role in defining how quality is engineered into both traditional and AI-powered systems. This includes helping teams validate complex workflows, evaluate non-deterministic behaviours, establish appropriate guardrails, and ensure AI-enabled solutions are reliable, safe, observable, and compliant with enterprise standards.

You will act as a quality advocate and technical leader, using AI as a force multiplier to improve testing effectiveness, accelerate feedback cycles, and increase engineering productivity. Equally important, you will help teams develop a culture of shared quality ownership by coaching engineers to build quality into solutions from the outset through better requirements, stronger automation, effective testing strategies, and data-driven decision making.

Working closely with Product Owners, Engineers, Architects, Security, and Support teams, you will help define quality strategies, testing approaches, evaluation frameworks, and engineering standards that enable teams to deliver secure, resilient, and customer-focused solutions at scale.

Role context

You will be a quality advocate and technical partner for Product Owners, Engineers, Architects, Security and Support teams. You will help define testing approaches, automation, quality measures and engineering standards that give teams confidence in what they release.

As Aflac uses more AI-assisted engineering and intelligent software, you will help teams test AI-enabled features in practical, responsible ways.

Skills and experience

Below is an overview of the skills and experience we are looking for, but remember, don't rule yourself out if you don't have everything on the list – it's your intellect and your attitude we are really after.

Essential

• 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

Desirable

• Experience testing AI-enabled applications, agentic systems or intelligent workflows.

• Experience defining AI evaluation frameworks and quality metrics.

• Experience with AWS and cloud-native technologies.

• Experience with observability, monitoring and diagnostics tools.
  

Please note that this is NOT a remote role, you will be required to come into the office 2 days per week.

We are committed to attracting diverse talent and supporting flexible working. Applications from candidates wishing to work four days per week are welcomed and will be considered in line with business and team requirements.

So that's us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far. We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining an innovative technology company that runs locally and is supported by a well-established, highly recognised Fortune 500 company in the US.

Aflac Northern Ireland is an equal opportunities employer.