Quality Engineer in Edinburgh

About the Company

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.

About the Role

As a Quality Engineer at Aberdeen Adviser, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and contribute to automated and exploratory tests, ensuring software meets functional and non‑functional requirements, particularly for complex and critical scenarios.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to ensure quality is built in from the start.
• Define test scenarios and coverage, breaking down acceptance criteria into happy path, edge, and negative cases.
• Establish test strategy and layering (unit, component, API, contract, integration, E2E).
• Guide teams in test planning and ensure appropriate coverage across performance, security, accessibility, and usability.
• Foster a quality‑first mindset, mentoring engineers on best practices in testing, CI/CD, and automation.
• Build and evolve test frameworks and reusable components, enabling teams to implement automated testing and integrate into CI/CD pipelines.
• Perform targeted exploratory testing to uncover edge cases and usability concerns.
• Advocate for service reliability and real‑world testing scenarios, including 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 testing practices, standards, and tooling, sharing knowledge with the wider team.
• Review PRs to ensure test quality, coverage, and adherence to standards.
• Enable teams to adopt best practices, patterns, and testing standards.
• Support fast feedback loops through CI/CD and shift‑left testing approaches.
• Work across multiple teams, balancing priorities based on risk, delivery needs, and quality maturity.
• Leverage AI‑driven testing approaches to generate tests from requirements, analyse results, improve coverage, support execution (including reducing flaky failures), and ensure usage aligns with defined standards, guardrails, and human review.

Qualifications

• Experience in manual and automated testing, with an understanding of when to apply each.
• Strong collaboration and coaching skills, with the ability to mentor engineers on best practices in quality.
• 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.
• Prior exposure to a modern tech stack environment – ideally JavaScript and/or TypeScript.
• 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.
• Experience defining test strategy and coverage across multiple layers.
• Ability to work across more than one team and influence without direct ownership.
• Interest or experience in AI‑driven testing approaches.

Why Join Aberdeen Adviser?

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.

Benefits

Competitive salary, flexible working options, private healthcare, pension contributions, 40 days’ annual leave, 16% employer pension contribution, 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.

Equal Opportunity

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. 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.