Senior Test Engineer

AJ Bell; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

26 days holiday

Pension 7%

Discretionary bonus

Share schemes

Health Cash Plan

Free onsite gym

Enhanced family leave

Travel and bike loan

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

AJ Bell is seeking a Senior Software Test Engineer to drive quality across UI, API, and back-office processes in a fast-paced, agile environment. You will collaborate with developers and testers to design, implement, and execute robust test automation, including end-to-end testing and 3rd party integrations.

You’ll contribute to test strategy, support UAT and production releases, and mentor junior testers in a hybrid working setup at AJ Bell.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Senior Tester and delegating work within a team.
• Full understanding of the testing lifecycle & methodologies.
• Create 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 environments.
• Proven experience testing APIs using integration tools.
• Knowledge of Cypress, Gherkin, PactumJS, TypeScript.
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, Git, AWS CodePipeline.
• Take an automation-first approach to test execution where possible.
• Meticulous attention to detail.
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Coach/develop testers, review their work, delegate tasks and set objectives.
• Carry out testing across UI, API, back office, and integrations including end-to-end testing.
• Understand and interpret business, functional and technical requirements.
• Understand AJ Bell products and relevant financial services legislation.
• Input into how solutions are developed to deliver the best customer outcomes.
• Execute test scripts and record results using testing tools (JIRA/XRAY).
• Raise bugs with sufficient detail to enable fix and reproduction.
• Collaborate with Project Leads on test automation strategies alongside manual testing.
• Participate in exciting new research projects and PoCs.
• Support UAT and release to Production.
• Apply Agile practices effectively.

Skills

Senior tester

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD

Communication

Automation-first

Attention to detail

Exploratory testing

Agile

Tools

JIRA/XRAY

Jenkins

Git

AWS CodePipeline

Cypress

PactumJS

TypeScript

Page Object Model

Job description

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.

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. You will have the opportunity to impact and shape the way we build products.
Working in a small agile team will allow you to be both nimble whilst at the same time delivering value to the business. Our focus is on individuals and delivery rather than ceremonies and complex process.

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 AJ Bell

At AJ Bell, we believe investing should feel good. Whether you're looking for an ISA, pension or dealing account, whether you want to invest with the help of a financial adviser or do it yourself, we have easy-to-use solutions to suit people from all walks of life.

We're one of the UK's fastest-growing investment platform businesses, trusted by everyone from professional financial advisers to first-time investors.

Today, over 762,000 customers trust us to manage more than £121.5 billion of assets. By continually striving to make investing simpler and more accessible, we're helping more people take control of their financial futures.

We're proud to be recognised as one of the UK's Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years, and a Great Place to Work in 2025 and 2026, a reflection of our supportive and collaborative culture.

What We Offer

• 26 days holiday, increasing with service, plus buy/sell scheme and bank holidays
• 7% pension with matched contributions
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Share schemes, including free shares and BAYE
• Health Cash Plan and discounted private healthcare
• Free onsite gym
• Enhanced family leave, subject to qualifying criteria
• Travel and bike loan schemes
• Employee Assistance Programme

Life at AJ Bell

• Regular social events including summer and Christmas parties
• Learning and development opportunities tailored to you
• Casual dress code
• Friendly, supportive team environment

Our ways of working

At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you'll spend a minimum of 50% of working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be spent full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.

Inclusion & diversity

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and make hiring decisions based on skills, experience and potential.

Agency information

This vacancy is being managed exclusively by our in-house Recruitment team. We are not partnering with recruitment agencies on this opportunity and will only accept applications submitted directly by candidates.