Software Developer Engineer in Test

Royal London; Alderley Edge; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Employer pension matching

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Royal London is seeking a Software Developer Engineer in Test to join our Alderley Park team, contributing to a new investments platform. The role is embedded in our COO function, delivering digital solutions for customers and business users while embracing a hybrid work model.

The ideal candidate will drive automation, design robust test strategies and collaborate in an agile environment to ensure high quality releases over a multi-year transformation.

Qualifications

• Expert in test automation frameworks, including Playwright and Selenium.
• Strong software engineering practices in TypeScript/JavaScript/HTML.
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated test suites.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks and test suites.
• Ensure quality, reliability and risk mitigation through testing.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

TypeScript

JavaScript

HTML

Test automation

Agile methodologies

End-to-end testing

Cross-browser testing

Mentoring

Tools

MongoDB

Oracle

Job description

Contract type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

We are seeking expertly skilled and experienced Software Developer Engineer in Test to play a central role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

About the role

• We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our investment product offering.
• We have more than 80 vacancies for people to be part of this exciting opportunity.
• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.

About you

• Expert in test automation frameworks, including Playwright and Selenium.
• Highly proficient in TypeScript, JavaScript and HTML, with strong software engineering practices.
• Extensive experience designing, developing and maintaining automated test scenarios and test suites.
• Strong understanding of modern web architectures, including Angular, GraphQL and RESTful microservices.
• Experienced working with databases, including MongoDB and Oracle.
• Skilled in cross-browser, accessibility and end-to-end testing across web applications.
• Proven experience working within Agile delivery environments and modern software development lifecycles.
• Exceptional attention to detail with a focus on quality, reliability and risk mitigation.
• Self-motivated and able to work independently while mentoring and supporting others.
• Committed to continuous improvement, driving testing best practice, quality standards and innovation.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures crossing Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which overfitted.