Quality & Automation Test Engineer

Aviva; London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the insurance sector is seeking a Quality & Automation Test Engineer to join their innovative team in London. This role involves enhancing automation testing practices and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure high-quality delivery. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in holistic testing and modern development practices, with a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary

Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%

29 days holiday plus bank holidays

Up to 40% discount on Aviva products

Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year

Flexible benefits including sustainability options

Paid volunteering days

Wellbeing support and tools

Qualifications

• Experience with TDD and hybrid testing frameworks.
• Well-versed in Agile and continuous deployments.
• Experience in Exploratory and Holistic Testing.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Software & Data Engineers to deliver excellent customer outcomes.
• Implement improvements to automation testing standards.
• Provide technical oversight and undertake design and code reviews.

Skills

TDD

Hybrid testing frameworks

Agile

DevOps

Exploratory Testing

Risk-based testing

Tools

AWS

Azure

Google Cloud

Typescript

React

Next.Js

Docker

Job description

Salary circa £80,000 depending on experience

Location – London

Do you like working with the latest technology and are interested in enhancing your tech abilities? We are currently recruiting for Quality & Automation Test Engineers with a strong holistic testing and programming background, who love to be hands-on and get enjoyment out of solving complex problems. If you like to challenge the status quo and think differently, we would really like you to be a part of our exciting new team. We are flexible with location, however traveling to our London office at least once per fortnight will be required

Aviva Zero is a greenfield Personal Lines insurer headquartered in Fenchurch Street, London, set with the ambition to be the best in the UK market. It will combine the pace, focus, and test and learn mentality of a start-up with the expertise, and financial backing of Aviva

A bit about the role

As a Quality & Automation Test Engineer, you will collaborate with Software & Data Engineers, Product Owners, SME’s and the rest of the team to deliver excellent and timely customer outcomes through continuous development, automation testing, and delivery. You will implement improvements to automation testing standards and practices to increase the quality and efficiency of delivery. You will provide technical oversight and undertake design and code reviews to ensure systems meet functional and non-functional requirements

We are driving a culture of whole team accountability for quality and continuous testing and are looking for people who can help us do that.

Skills and experience we're looking for:

• Experience with TDD, hybrid testing frameworks (Object model & Data-driven) and third-party system integrations (APIs & middleware).
• Experience in the creation of mocks.
• Well-versed in modern development practices including Agile and continuous deployments, DevOps and either AWS, Azure or Google cloud.
• Experience in Exploratory and Holistic Testing including shift left / shift right approaches.
• Experience in Risk-based testing (RBT)

Additional information

Our Tech Stack – (experience with all of the below is not required)

UI: Typescript, React, Next.Js, HTML / CSS, Docker, GitHub Actions, AWS – CDK, ECS, ALB, VPC.

API’s: Go, Rest, CDK. AWS – CDK, Lambda, API Gateway, Dynamo DB, Event Bridge, S3, Serverless and event driven architecture

Platforms: Go, CDK, AWS

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £80,000 depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s.
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in.
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

Take a look to learn more. Put a salary into this calculator to see what your total Aviva Reward could be.

Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here

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About the company

We’re here to protect our 33 million customers from life’s unexpected twists and turns – freeing them from fear of uncertainty.We are one of only a few insurance companies in the world that can provide customers with life, general and health insurance, and asset management in one place – a composite insurer.And we have a unique competitive advantage. Whether we’re protecting them from everyday risks or helping them to save for the future, we put customers at the heart of all we do – creating a bright and sustainable future for our customers, employees and our communities.

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