Quality Engineer in Edinburgh

We are looking for a Quality Engineer to embed quality throughout our software development life cycle at Aberdeen Adviser.

As a Quality Engineer, 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. You will work across multiple cross‑functional squads (typically two), balancing priorities and enabling consistent quality practices across teams. This role blends quality assurance and quality coaching, where you will not only test software but also mentor developers on best practices, define test strategies, and advocate for testing from the customer’s perspective. The role emphasises defining test strategy, coverage, and standards, while enabling engineers to own test implementation, execution, and maintenance. You will drive both manual and automated testing approaches, selecting the best tools for the job in a polyglot environment.

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.
• Quality is owned by engineering teams. The QE role focuses on defining strategy, enabling teams, and improving practices, while engineers own test implementation, execution, and maintenance.
• 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.

What We’re Looking For

• 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 modern tech stack environments – 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.
• Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working options, private healthcare, pension contributions, and more.

Our Benefits

When you join us, you’ll receive a competitive package that includes 40 days of annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, discretionary performance‑based bonuses (where applicable), private healthcare, and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans, and access to an employee discount portal.

Disability Confident & Inclusive Workplace

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 members 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 where unfair or unlawful treatment is eradicated. We define diversity in its broadest sense – including but not limited to educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, 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.