Senior QE Manager in Bristol

Starting Salary: c. £65,000 Depending on skills and experience

Locations: Bristol, York, Norwich or Perth with 50% office attendance

Do you enjoy leading quality engineering teams and driving excellence across complex delivery environments? This is a great opportunity for someone with strong experience in quality engineering or test leadership who is ready to shape strategy, influence stakeholders and elevate quality practices at scale.

A bit about the job: You’ll join our technology team, where quality engineering is central to delivering reliable, resilient, and customer-focused digital services. As a Senior QE Manager, you’ll lead and develop a team of quality engineers, ensuring robust testing strategies are embedded across the delivery lifecycle. You’ll partner closely with engineering, product, and business stakeholders to drive a quality-first mindset and continuously improve tooling, automation and ways of working. You’ll be accountable for defining and delivering the QE strategy, ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes and supporting the successful delivery of key business initiatives.

Skills and experience we’re looking for:

• Strong experience in quality engineering, testing or QE leadership roles
• Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing teams
• Experience with modern testing approaches, including automation and CI/CD integration
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and embed quality-first practices
• Strong analytical skills with experience using data to improve quality outcomes

What you’ll get for this role:

• Starting salary c. £65,000 (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity - actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme e.g. if you put in 8%, Aviva adds 14%
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Aviva-funded Private Medical Benefit to help you get expert support when you need it
• 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

Aviva is for everyone: We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares. We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

To find out more about working at Aviva take a look here. We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Amber Britton a call on 07775546100 or send an email to amber.britton@aviva.com.