Job Description

At Aberdeen our ambition is to be the UKs 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 industrys 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 UKs 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 the department

At Aberdeen 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.

About the Role

Were creating a modern automationfirst test function. As Lead Quality Engineer youll operate in a Principal/DeveloperinTest capacity setting automation strategy and standards across product squads and large programmes. Youll linemanage a combination of quality engineers and coaches coach engineers across disciplines and partner with fellow Test Leads to raise the bar for quality at speed. Your mission: build the systems practices and people that make reliable software delivery the default.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and govern coding standards test design patterns and automation architecture (UI API contract component and integration layers). Select and evolve toolchains that fit our stack and delivery model.

• Embed shiftleft quality riskbased testing and CI/CDdriven quality gates (including static analysis unit coverage thresholds contract verification performance smoke). Establish reliable test data and environments practices.

• Grow capability through 1:1s pairing code reviews clinics and communities of practice. Develop learning roadmaps for automation engineers and sideskill with the other Test Lead to crosspollinate practices across chapters.

• Objectives performance progression frameworks hiring/assessment and wellbeing for the automation team.

• Work across multiple squads/initiatives shaping test strategies assuring delivery plans unblocking teams and communicating risks and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders.

• Champion performance reliability and accessibility testing; integrate checks into pipelines and partner with SRE/Platform/Security to automate NFR evidence.

• Define leading/lagging indicators (e.g. change fail rate MTTD/MTTR flake rate escape rate) run experiments and iterate on tooling and process based on data.

About the candidate

• Strong engineering skills in one or more of JavaScript/TypeScript or Python Java or C#; deep experience designing maintainable frameworks (e.g. Playwright/Cypress/Selenium REST Assured/Pact for API & contract testing).

• Confident with Git trunkbased development and build pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins). Familiar with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) in service of test execution at scale.

• Proven at setting automation strategies for multiteam programmes; influencing engineering leaders; balancing velocity risk and compliance.

• Practical experience with performance testing (e.g. k6 JMeter) and integrating results into release decisions.

• Track record of line management (hiring performance growth) and coaching developers and testers alike; strong communicator across technical and nontechnical audiences.

• Nice to have - ISTQB Advanced Test Automation Engineer or equivalent experience; exposure to contracttesting at scale service virtualisation IaC (Terraform) and quality in data/ML pipelines.

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

Theres 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 benefitshere.

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 dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work if you have the talent and commitment to join our team wed like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen weve 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 well be happy to help.

Were 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.