Senior Software Test Engineer — Automation Leader & QA Impact

AJ Bell; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

7% pension with matched contributions

Discretionary bonus scheme

Share schemes

Health Cash Plan

Private healthcare

Free onsite gym

Enhanced family leave

Travel and bi

Job summary

AJ Bell is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to drive testing across UI, API and back-office systems within a small agile team. You will coach testers, design automated tests, and collaborate with technical leads to shape end-to-end quality across products.

You will interpret complex requirements, implement automation strategies, participate in UAT, and support production releases while embracing Agile practices and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Experience of working as a Senior Tester and delegating work to other testers within the team and being a first point of contact if they require help or assistance.
• Full understanding of the testing lifecycle & methodologies
• Create and design automated test scripts using the BDD methodology
• Maintain and enhance the existing automation frameworks
• Carry out exploratory testing within an Agile development environment
• Develop test tools, and extend test frameworks and test environments
• Proven experience testing APIs using integration tools
• Knowledge of Cypress, Gherkin, Page Object Model, PactumJS, TypeScript
• Technical understanding of processes under test and relevant related processes and the ability to test components
• An understanding of test automation concepts and their application
• Experience in CI / CD using tools such as Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline
• Take an automation-first approach to test execution where possible
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills and ability to communicate effectively with those in a technical role (e.g. developers) in addition to user

Responsibilities

• Coaching/developing testers, reviewing their work (peer review), delegation of work and/or setting tasks/targets/objectives
• Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - including UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all of these systems including end to end testing
• Understand and interpret business, functional and technical requirements
• Understand AJ Bell products and processes, and relevant Financial Services legislation
• Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
• Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools (JIRA/XRAY)
• Raising bugs in a timely manner with sufficient detail to be fixed/reproduced
• Working alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
• Being involved in exciting new research projects and proof of concepts
• Supporting User Acceptance Testing and release to Production
• Knowledge of Agile working practices and ability to apply its practice

Skills

Senior Tester

Test Automation

API Testing

CI/CD

JIRA XRAY

Cypress

TypeScript

Git

Jenkins

AWS CodePipeline

Tools

JIRA

XRAY

Cypress

PactumJS

TypeScript

Jenkins

Git

AWS CodePipeline

Job description

AJ Bell is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to drive testing across UI, API and back-office systems within a small agile team. You will coach testers, design automated tests, and collaborate with technical leads to shape end-to-end quality across products.

You will interpret complex requirements, implement automation strategies, participate in UAT, and support production releases while embracing Agile practices and continuous improvement.