Quality Engineer
About this role
Job Description
At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.
Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.
Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.
We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.
Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:
Interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.
Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.
About
A
berdeen
Adviser
Product & Technology
Hybrid in Edinburgh
At
A
berdeen
Adviser, we are building a modern, scalable technology platform that empowers financial advisers to serve their clients more efficiently. Our engineering teams work in cross-functional squads to develop innovative, high-quality software solutions that make a real impact. We foster a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning, where every engineer can shape the future of our platform.
As a Quality Engineer, you will help deliver trusted digital experiences that support our purpose and enable our clients to be better investors while investing in your tomorrow.
About the Department
The Quality Engineering team plays a vital role in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Working within cross-functional product squads, the team partners with engineers, product
managers
and designers to
establish
robust testing practices, improve software
reliability
and support continuous delivery. The team champions a quality-first culture that helps Aberdeen deliver secure,
resilient
and customer-focused digital products.
About the Role
Based in Edinburgh, this permanent role offers the opportunity to shape quality practices across multiple agile squads. Reporting to the Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, you will define testing strategy, guide quality
standards
and support engineering teams in adopting effective automated and exploratory testing approaches. You will balance hands-on quality engineering with coaching and enablement, helping teams improve coverage,
reliability
and customer outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to influence modern testing practices, mobile application
quality
and AI-driven testing approaches while continuing to develop your own career. (Assumed region: UK)
Responsibilities
- Define test strategies and coverage across unit,
- component
- , API,
- integration
- and end-to-end testing layers.
- Collaborate with engineers,
- designers
- and product managers to build quality into products from the earliest stages of development.
- Design and contribute to automated and exploratory testing for web and mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms.
- Mentor engineering teams on testing best practice, CI/CD integration,
- automation
- and shift-left quality approaches.
- Drive improvements in quality frameworks, tooling, performance, accessibility,
- security
- and service resilience testing.
- Leverage AI-driven testing techniques to improve test coverage, execution
- efficiency
- and defect detection.
- About the Candidate
- Essential criteria:
- Experience in both manual and automated software testing and an understanding of when each approach is
- appropriate
- .
- Experience testing mobile applications on iOS and/or Android platforms.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest,
- JUnit
- or Postman.
- Experience defining testing strategies and working within agile, cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms,
- ideally
- Azure, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Ability to coach and influence engineers to improve quality practices and standards.
- Desirable criteria:
- Exposure to mobile automation frameworks such as Maestro.
- Experience with device cloud platforms such as
- BrowserStack
- .
- Knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript environments.
- Interest or experience in AI-driven testing approaches.