Quality Engineer, Abrdn
Savings & investment company
Open for applications
Savings & investment company
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Helping clients to prepare for the future
Role
Who you are
- Experience in manual and automated testing, with an understanding of when to apply each
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jest, JUnit, Postman, or similar)
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think like a customer, ensuring usability and accessibility
- Experience working in agile environments, embedding testing within cross-functional teams
- A proactive mindset, always looking for ways to improve quality and streamline testing processes
- Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with the ability to mentor engineers on best practices in quality
What the job involves
- As a Quality Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring that quality is embedded 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 mindset, ensuring our products meet the highest standards of reliability, usability, and performance
- This role is a blend of quality assurance and quality coaching, where you will not only test software but also mentor developers on best practices, define test strategies, and advocate for testing from the customer’s perspective. You will drive both manual and automated testing approaches, selecting the best tools for the job in a polyglot environment
- In this role you will be able to make a real impact by ensuring our products are high-quality, user-friendly, and resilient. You will be working with modern testing approaches, including automation, performance testing, and CI/CD-driven quality strategies
- Design and execute both automated and manual tests, ensuring software meets functional and non-functional requirements
- Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure quality is built in from the start
- Guide teams in test planning and execution, ensuring coverage for performance, security, accessibility, and usability
- Foster a quality-first mindset, mentoring engineers on best practices in testing, CI/CD, and automation
- Develop and maintain automated test suites, integrating them into CI/CD pipelines to accelerate feedback loops
- Perform exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability concerns, ensuring the best customer experience
- Advocate for service reliability and real-world testing scenarios, considering performance under load, failover conditions, and system resilience
- Write clear and reproducible defect reports and contribute to technical documentation
- Take a polyglot approach to testing tools, selecting the best frameworks for different tech stacks and projects
- Continuously improve QA processes, sharing knowledge with the wider team and driving quality initiatives
Our take
Abrdn, formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen, is a global investment company helping its clients to save and invest for their futures. It operates three businesses - Investments, Adviser and Personal - and has been operating since way back in 1825.
Nowadays, atop its investment and advice services, the company delivers two platforms for financial advisers. The first, Wrap, enables users to build and manage portfolios for each client. It also includes SIPP drawdown capabilities - which means advisers can choose the best platform charges when client assets are at their highest. The second, Elevate, encompasses a suite of tools for advisers to save time and make sure their clients are informed.
In 2023, Abrdn announced "adviserOS", which represents an upgrade to their platform offerings. There is limited information to go on, but the company claims this new venture will be simpler and data-led, as well as require less admin. It will be interesting to see if this new release keeps pace with tech developments across the investment space and allows abrdn to continue as an innovator.
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Company
Company HQ
Edinburgh New Town, Edinburgh, UK
Leadership
Jason Windsor
(CEO)Previously CFO at Persimmon Homes, Group CFO at Aviva and was the Managing Director of Morgan Stanley.
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