Quality Engineer
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**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 AberdeenAdviserProduct & Technology**
**Hybrid in Edinburgh**
At AberdeenAdviser, 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, productmanagersand designers toestablishrobust testing practices, improve softwarereliabilityand support continuous delivery. The team champions a quality-first culture that helps Aberdeen deliver secure,resilientand 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 qualitystandardsand 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,reliabilityand customer outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to influence modern testing practices, mobile applicationqualityand AI-driven testing approaches while continuing to develop your own career. (Assumed region: UK)
**Key Responsibilities**
- Define test strategies and coverage across unit,component, API,integrationand end-to-end testing layers.
- Collaborate with engineers,designersand 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,automationand shift-left quality approaches.
- Drive improvements in quality frameworks, tooling, performance, accessibility,securityand service resilience testing.
- Leverage AI-driven testing techniques to improve test coverage, executionefficiencyand defect detection.
**About the Candidate**
**Essential criteria:**
- Experience in both manual and automated software testing and an understanding of when each approach isappropriate.
- Experience testing mobile applications on iOS and/or Android platforms.
- Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest,JUnitor Postman.
- Experience defining testing strategies and working within agile, cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms,ideallyAzure, 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 asBrowserStack.
- Knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript environments.
- Interest or experience in AI-driven testing approaches.
**Why JoinaberdeenAdviser?**
- Make a real impact by ensuring our products are high-quality, user-friendly, and resilient.
- Work with modern testing approaches, including automation, performance testing, and CI/CD-driven quality strategies.
- Accelerate your career growth, with opportunities to mentor, lead quality initiatives, and shape best practices.
- Be part of an inclusive, collaborative team that values transparency, innovation, and knowledge-sharing.
- Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working options, private healthcare, pension contributions, and more.
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.](https://www.abrdn.com/corporate/careers/professional-careers/benefits)
**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 [here](https://www.abrdn.com/corporate/about-us).
**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](https://www.abrdn.com/corporate/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion), 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.**