Due to growth were now recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer to join our Investcentre team and help enhance our awardwinning platform.
You will be joining a team which has a philosophy of continuous improvement and a strong focus on engineering excellence.
What does the job involve
- Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and working in a highperformance engineering team.
- Work with the team to design and deliver high quality products.
- At AJ Bell we pair programme and in most cases will pair with other members of the team.
What youll have
- Understand and interpret business functional and technical requirements.
- Lead conversations in standup refinement and retrospective sessions.
- Automation fix maintain and write new automation tests for our websites and APIs.
- Lead others in using various testing tools to meet test requirements.
- Experienced and confident enough to have input with developers and their approach to development level testing.
- Mentor junior test engineers. Pairing with them via ongoing project work to upskill.
- Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge. and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
- Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems including UI API back office (workflow) processes 3rd party systems and integrations between all these systems including end to end testing.
- Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools
- Work alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
- Identify opportunities for testing improvement in existing or new functionality explore suitable testing solutions and demo POC where required.
- You proactively seek Development Design Architecture or specialised input when needed and you know when its needed.
- Support User Acceptance Testing and release to Production.
- Agile / Scrum / Kanban.
- Strong communication skills written and verbal.
- Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm.
- Ecommerce and/or financial services experience.
About us
AJ Bell is one of the fastestgrowing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an awardwinning range of solutions that caters for everyone from professional financial advisers to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 593000 customers using our awardwinning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than 90.4 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments and by continuously striving to make investing easier we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018 AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol we now have over 1500 employees and have been named one of the UKs Best 100 Companies to Work For for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work.
At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork we have a great sense of pride in what we do and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
Our perks and benefits
- Starting holiday entitlement of 25 days increasing up to 31 days with length of service
- Holiday buy and sell scheme
- A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 7
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Annual free share awards scheme
- Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
- Health Cash Plan provided by SimplyHealth
- Discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
- Free gym membership with an onsite gym providing a wide range of free classes
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Bike loan scheme
- Sick pay pledge
- Enhanced maternity paternity and shared parental leave
- Discounted nursery fees at Kids Planet on Exchange Quay
- Loans for travel season tickets
- Death in service scheme
- Paid time off for volunteer work
- Charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice
- Calendar of social events including monthly payday drinks annual Christmas party summer party and much more
- Parking at Exchange Quay
- Personal development programmes built around you and your career goals including access to personal skills workshops
- Ongoing technical training
- Professional qualification support
- Talent management programmes
- Peer recognition scheme with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
- Monthly leadership breakfasts and lunches
- Casual dress code
- Access to a range of benefits from our sponsorship deals
Hybrid working
At AJ Bell our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. Thats why we offer a hybrid working model where youll spend a minimum of 50 of your working time per month in the Manchester office. For new team members an initial period will be fulltime in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
We do not discriminate on the basis of race sex gender identity sexual orientation age pregnancy religion physical and mental disability marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications merit and business need.
If you like the sound of the above or just want to know more about the company and the role wed love to speak to you.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime