Quality Engineer
About this role
Job Description
Aberdeen plc is one of Europe’s largest investment companies, and we are built on a long-standing culture of caring about the future and making a positive impact. Together we invest
for
a better future. We do it to make a difference to the lives of our clients and customers, our employees, society, and our shareholders. Our business is structured around three distinct areas focused on our clients' changing needs: Aberdeen Investments, Aberdeen Adviser, and interactive
investor
.
Help shape the quality of our adviser platform and invest in your tomorrow.
About the Role
As a Quality Engineer within Aberdeen Adviser Product & Technology, you will play a pivotal role in embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Reporting to the Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, you will work closely with engineers, product managers and designers to champion a quality-first culture and ensure our products meet the highest standards of reliability, usability, accessibility and performance.
Working across multiple cross-functional squads, you will help define and implement testing strategies that enable teams to deliver high-quality software at pace. This is a unique opportunity to combine hands-on quality engineering with coaching and mentoring, helping engineers take ownership of testing while promoting best practice across the wider organisation.
You will contribute to both manual and automated testing approaches, selecting the most effective tools and frameworks for different technology stacks and delivery challenges. The role also provides the opportunity to influence the adoption of modern quality engineering practices, including shift-left testing, continuous integration and delivery, service resilience testing and emerging AI-driven testing techniques.
Based in Edinburgh and operating within our blended working model, this permanent opportunity offers the chance to shape how quality is delivered across a growing technology function while investing in your own future development.
Responsibilities
- Design and contribute to automated and exploratory testing activities, ensuring software meets both functional and non-functional requirements.
- Define test scenarios and coverage by translating requirements into happy path, edge case and negative test conditions.
- Establish and promote effective test layering strategies, including unit, component, API, contract, integration and end-to-end testing.
- Test mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms, ensuring a consistent and high-quality customer experience across channels.
- Guide teams on performance, accessibility, security and usability testing approaches.
- Build and evolve test frameworks and reusable automation components that support fast, reliable delivery.
- Coach engineers on quality engineering best practice, CI/CD, automation and testing strategy.
- Perform targeted exploratory testing to identify hidden defects, usability issues and risk areas.
- Advocate for service reliability through resilience, failover and performance-under-load testing approaches.
- Review pull requests to ensure testing standards, quality coverage and maintainability are achieved.
- Promote continuous improvement in testing practices, tooling and engineering standards.
- Support and govern the adoption of AI-driven testing approaches while ensuring appropriate guardrails and human oversight.
- About the Candidate
Requirements
- Experience working in both manual and automated testing environments.
- Experience testing mobile applications across iOS and/or Android platforms.
- Strong understanding of test strategy, risk-based testing and quality engineering principles.
- Experience working with modern testing tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, JUnit, Postman or equivalent technologies.
- Familiarity with cloud-based environments, preferably Azure, and CI/CD delivery pipelines.
- Experience operating within agile, cross-functional product teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with mobile automation frameworks such as Maestro.
- Experience using device cloud platforms such as BrowserStack.
- Exposure to JavaScript and/or TypeScript development environments.
- Knowledge of AI-assisted testing approaches and emerging quality engineering practices.
- We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.
- Our benefits
- There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
- When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits
- here.
- Our business
- Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do
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- An inclusive way of working
- Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
- At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
- An inclusive culture
- , where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
- We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone.
- If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.