Senior Quality Engineer

Are you someone who is a visionary leader, who inspires teams to achieve their full potential, drives innovation and fosters a collaborative and inclusive work environment? If so, we would love to hear from you! The finance test team is embarking on a period of transformation and requires a personality at the forefront of this process to advocate for quality engineering.

A bit about the job:

The finance test team is embarking on a period of transformation and requires a personality at the forefront of this process to advocate for quality engineering.

The role involves working closely with all roles in IT and senior business stakeholders whilst understanding the impact on users & our customers.

Mentoring other members of the team, leading through coaching and developing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across the estate. You will be leading the Project test team, managing, coaching, motivating the test team to ensure resources are available to deliver the project outcomes and will create the test strategy driving optimisation, efficiency, automation, reviewing & approving test documentation, including Test Scope, Test Scenarios, Test Completion Reports.

Identify and resolving the project testing risks, ensuring clear and concise mitigation plans are agreed and progressed and being accountable for evaluating and reporting clear, concise, and timely test metrics & dashboards. Then role also involves reporting test evidence to demonstrate test acceptance criteria are met and escalate if not. Following controls ensuring project risks are reported correctly.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• System development life cycle methodologies, implementing QE metrics delivering efficiency, automation, & quality improvements experience is essential.
• Experience setting QE standards and patterns implementing best practices, asset libraries, test data & tooling strategies.
• Both functional and non-functional experience including performance, security & accessibility testing.
• In depth understanding of how to define & manage risks, issues & interdependencies as they relate to QE standards and patterns.
• Establish positive stakeholder & QE industry relationships by connecting through collaboration inside and outside of Aviva and can communicate complex ideas and MI to a mixed audience in an effective way.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too. And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you. We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary between £50,000 - £65,000 (depending on Location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity – 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools