Automation & QA Engineer — Agile Quality Engineering

Seven Investment Management; London; On-site; NOK 693,000 - 1,071,000; Full time

Job summary

Seven Investment Management is seeking a testing professional to join an Agile squad-based delivery model with an automation-first approach. You will provide day-to-day support for test planning, execution, and governance, ensuring high-quality validation of business requirements and early defect detection to protect production readiness.

You will design comprehensive test approaches across functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing, develop test data and scenarios, and mentor

Qualifications

• Strong experience in manual testing across complex business and technology solutions.
• Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills to assess requirements, identify risks, and determine appropriate testing approaches.
• Strong exploratory testing skills with the ability to uncover issues beyond documented requirements.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, capable of translating technical findings into business-focused outcomes.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience working within Agile Squads.
• Thorough knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Test Lifecycle, and ISTQB best-practice testing techniques.
• Experience designing and executing risk-based testing strategies.
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar test management and work tracking tools.
• Asset Management and Financial Services domain knowledge.
• Ability to influence quality outcomes, challenge assumptions constructively, and advocate for customer-focused testing.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently while effectively collaborating across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality manual testing across Squad deliverables, ensuring thorough validation of business requirements and reducing the risk of defects reaching production.
• Self-manage testing activities within the Squad and align with delivery timelines.
• Analyze and review functional requirements to identify risks, gaps, ambiguities, and areas needing clarification.
• Define and execute comprehensive test approaches including functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and usability testing.
• Create and maintain test scenarios, cases, data, and execution evidence.
• Design and execute data generation, manipulation, and validation activities, including SQL queries.
• Communicate testing outcomes, risks, defects, and quality concerns to stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to improve testing practices, processes, standards, and tools across the Test Chapter.
• Promote a quality-first culture and early testing involvement in the SDLC.
• Mentor team members to raise testing capability across squads and wider team.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers to ensure testable requirements.
• Contribute to release planning and go-live activities with quality assessments.

Skills

Manual testing

Analytics

Exploratory testing

Communication

Agile

SDLC/Testing lifecycle

Risk-based testing

Azure DevOps / TMS

Asset Management domain

Quality advocacy

Independent collaboration

Education

ISEB/ISTQB Foundation

ISTQB advanced qualifications

Tools

Playwright

Specflow

Selenium

C#

Postman/ReadyAPI

CI/CD tools

Job description

Seven Investment Management is seeking a testing professional to join an Agile squad-based delivery model with an automation-first approach. You will provide day-to-day support for test planning, execution, and governance, ensuring high-quality validation of business requirements and early defect detection to protect production readiness.

You will design comprehensive test approaches across functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing, develop test data and scenarios, and mentor