Senior Test Engineer

Manchester Digital; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment platform company in Manchester is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to improve their product offerings. The role involves delivering robust and performant code across various systems, coaching team members, and conducting comprehensive testing including UI and API. The ideal candidate has strong experience in testing methodologies and automation frameworks. This position offers a range of benefits and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days

Discretionary bonus scheme

Discounted private healthcare scheme

Free gym membership

Ongoing technical training

Casual dress code

Qualifications

• Coaching/developing testers and reviewing their work.
• Execute test scripts and record results.
• Proven experience in testing APIs using integration tools.

Responsibilities

• Conduct testing across UI, API, and back office processes.
• Support User Acceptance Testing and release to Production.
• Involvement in research projects and proof of concepts.

Skills

Experience as a Senior Tester

Understanding of testing lifecycle

Automated test script creation

Cypress knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Tools

JIRA/XRAY

CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git)

TypeScript

Job description

We are actively recruiting a Senior Software Test Engineer to help us on our mission of striving to make investing easier for all. You will carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all of these systems including end to end testing. You will be able to deliver tested, resilient and performant code against a fast paced environment.

Your role will be pivotal in helping us achieve our mission by developing, shaping and iterating our customer applications. Alongside this you will also be working with other software testers within the team to assist the Team Lead in balancing work flow and delegating tasks when required.

You will be working on a product that will help shape the way that people invest in order to secure their future financial wellbeing. Working in a highly focused application development team you will be responsible for delivering against key company goals not just a set of features.

Main 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

About You:

The below are the skills and tools that we use but we don't expect you to have knowledge of everything, more a desire to learn and adopt these.

• 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

About Us:

AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience.

We have over 620,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £96.1 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.

Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.

Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years.

Our Perks and Benefits:

• Starting holiday entitlement of 26 days, increasing up to 31 days with length of service
• Holiday buy and sell scheme
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7%
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Annual free share awards scheme
• Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
• Health Cash Plan – provided by Medicash
• Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
• Free gym membership, with an on-site gym providing a wide range of free classes
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Sick pay+ pledge
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
• Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
• Loans for travel season tickets
• Dedicated time for proof-of-concepts and assessing new tech
• Support to attend conferences, events, and meet-ups
• Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
• Calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
• Parking at Exchange Quay
• Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals, including access to personal skills workshops
• Ongoing technical training
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
• Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
• Casual dress code
• Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals

AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.

We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.