Senior Quality Engineer (Team Lead)

Target Start Date: ASAP

Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available

Salary Range: £55,000 - £65,000 Dependent on Experience

Location: Eastleigh - Hybrid

Closing Date for applications: Monday 6th April

Job Overview: Ageas/esure are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer (Team Lead), with proven experience designing and architecting automation frameworks, to be a key member of a multi-disciplined, high performing Agile squad accountable for shaping and building our future. The Senior Quality Engineer (Team Lead) will analyse changes being made and ensure test coverage (manual and automation) is appropriate and written/coded to the testing standards, whilst keeping stakeholders of all levels engaged and informed.

Main Responsibilities:

• Support where required, the QA Lead to drive the test participation in all the projects and teams within their area.
• Engaging in testing and tech forums as well as driving testing improvements and automation capabilities in your own squad and beyond.
• Own the development and professional growth of a small team of QA Engineers.
• Own the day‑to‑day line management of these colleagues and create a highly collaborative team working in an Agile environment.
• Supports the QA Lead to deliver improvements in testing practices.

Skills and experience:

• Strong programming expertise in one or more languages (Java, C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript).
• Significant experience testing large‑scale enterprise systems (front office, back office, CRM, document management, claims, digital platforms).
• Demonstrated experience in implementing end‑to‑end regression automation across distributed systems.
• Excellent communication, influencing, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong analytical and problem‑solving capabilities.

Benefits:

• Flexible Working – Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part‑time / job‑shares.
• Minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
• Supporting your Health – Dental Insurance, Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
• Supporting your Wealth – 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
• Supporting you at Work – Well‑being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
• Supporting you and your Family – Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non‑pregnant parent/co‑adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
• Benefits for Them – Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
• Get some Tech – Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
• Getting around – Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
• Supporting you back to work – Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas: We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers. As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We’re a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, member of iCAN and GAIN. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. That means if you are applying for a job with us, you will have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment experience. If the list does not cover the support you need, please contact our Recruitment Team to discuss how they can help. We also guarantee an interview for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

We have a zero‑tolerance approach towards any form of harassment during the recruitment process, ensuring that everyone is treated with respect and professionalism. Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we’re always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we’re open to discussing flexible working, including full‑time, part‑time or job share arrangements.

Want to be part of a Winning Team? Come and join Ageas.