QA Engineer

Aflac Northern Ireland; Belfast City District; Híbrido; GBP 65.000 - 90.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Aflac Northern Ireland is seeking a skilled test professional to join our engineering teams in Belfast. You will own testing lifecycle activities, develop and execute test plans, and drive automation across n-tier web apps, APIs, and integrations.

You'll partner with engineers, product owners and stakeholders in an Agile environment, applying GenAI tools, CI/CD pipelines, and security best practices to deliver robust, reliable software for our policyholders.

Formación

• 7+ years IT experience in client-server design/development.
• Experience with targeted test automation strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work well in a team environment, maximising strengths across the team.
• Key technology experience of test automation tools, preferably Robot Framework and Playwright.
• Commercial experience of agile testing processes and the DevOps lifecycle.
• Experience implementing security standards that meet privacy requirements for web applications.
• Experience using GenAI tools to reduce risk and increase quality.
• Experience participating in integration testing across multiple applications and teams.

Responsabilidades

• Being right at the heart of the testing lifecycle: developing test plans and test cases, ensuring effective test coverage, executing tests, identifying and logging defects, working with engineers to resolve defects, and supporting regression testing.
• Functional, workflow, and end-to-end testing of n-tier web applications, including automated tests where appropriate.
• Participating in system integration testing with colleagues from multiple global teams.
• Continually improving engineering and testing processes.
• Provide best practice, shift-left coaching to developers to promote defensive coding habits.
• Facilitate example mapping sessions to build a complete picture of user story requirements.
• Contribute to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to creation and maintenance of automated test scripts.
• Use GenAI in the form of GitHub Copilot or AWS Kiro to embed quality early in the AI-DLC to reduce risk and accelerate defect-free product development.

Conocimientos

IT experience

7+ yrs IT

Test automation

Robot Framework

Playwright

Agile testing

DevOps lifecycle

Security standards

GenAI tools

Integration testing

Communication

Teamwork

Herramientas

Robot Framework

Playwright

Git

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Descripción del empleo

Role Context

We are looking for a talented tech enthusiast to join one of our high-performing engineering teams. Our feature teams are responsible for building cloud-native applications, APIs and integrations that support critical customer and business journeys.

Working as part of a cross-functional Agile team, you will partner closely with engineers, product owners and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. You will help ensure that solutions are robust, secure, maintainable, and deliver a seamless experience for our policyholders.

The applications and services we build leverage modern engineering practices, cloud technologies and AI-assisted development approaches to accelerate delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality, reliability and customer outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Being right at the heart of the testing lifecycle: developing test plans and test cases, ensuring effective test coverage, executing tests, identifying and logging defects, working with engineers to resolve defects, and supporting regression testing.
• Functional, workflow, and end-to-end testing of n-tier web applications, including the creation and maintenance of automated tests where it makes sense.
• Participating in system integration testing with colleagues from multiple global teams.
• Continually improving engineering and testing processes.
• Provide best practice, shift-left coaching to developers to promote defensive coding habits.
• Facilitate example mapping sessions to help build complete picture of user story requirements.
• Contribute to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
• Contribute to creation and maintenance of automated test scripts.
• Use GenAI in the form of GitHub Copilot or AWS Kiro to embed quality early in the AI-DLC to reduce risk and accelerate defect-free product development.
  

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

• 7+ years of IT experience in any client-server design/development
• Experience with targeted test automation strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work well with in a team environment, maximising the different strengths across the team.
• Key technology experience of any test automation tools, but preferably Robot Framework and Playwright
• Commercial experience of agile testing processes and the DevOps lifecycle
• Experience of implementing security standards that meet privacy requirements for web applications.
• Experience using GenAI tools to reduce risk and increase quality.
• Experience participating in integration testing across multiple applications and teams.

Desirable

• Experience testing cloud-native applications and services hosted on AWS.
• Experience testing REST-based APIs and service integrations.
• Experience testing distributed systems and microservice-based architectures.
• Experience using observability and monitoring tooling to support test investigations and quality analysis.
• Experience contributing to CI/CD pipelines and deployment quality practices.
• Other valuable technologies: Robot Framework, Playwright, object-oriented concepts, GIT.
• Support integration and end-to-end testing of APIs, cloud-native services, and interconnected systems across the enterprise

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.

Applicants should be located in Northern Ireland and hold the relevant right to work status. We are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship on this role.

So that’s us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far. We look forward to hearing from you if you fancy joining a tech innovation company with the agility of a start-up and the stability of a Fortune 500 U.S. company