Senior QA Engineer - AI-Driven Cloud Testing 4-Day Week

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

Job summary

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.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 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.

Skills

IT experience

7+ yrs IT

Test automation

Robot Framework

Playwright

Agile testing

DevOps lifecycle

Security standards

GenAI tools

Integration testing

Communication

Teamwork

Tools

Robot Framework

Playwright

Git

CI/CD tooling

Observability tools

Job description

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.