Lead Quality Engineer

Lead Quality Engineer

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At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UKs 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.

• Interactive Investor: the UK's second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save and invest in the way that works for them.
• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.
• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

At Aberdeen Adviser, we are building a modern, scalable technology platform that empowers financial advisers to serve their clients more efficiently. Our engineering teams work in cross-functional squads to develop innovative, high-quality software solutions that make a real impact. We foster a culture of collaboration, experimentation, and continuous learning, where every engineer can shape the future of our platform.

We're creating a modern, automation-first test function. As Lead Quality Engineer you’ll operate in a Principal/Developer-in-Test capacity, setting automation strategy and standards across product squads and large programmes. You’ll line-manage a combination of quality engineers and coaches, coach engineers across disciplines, and partner with fellow Test Leads to raise the bar for quality r mission: build the systems, practices and people that make reliable software delivery the default.

• Define and govern coding standards, test design patterns, and automation architecture (UI, API, contract, component, and integration layers). Select and evolve tool chains that fit our stack and delivery model.
• Embed shift-left quality, risk-based testing, and CI/CD-driven quality gates (including static analysis, unit coverage thresholds, contract verification, performance smoke). Establish reliable test data and environments practices.
• Grow capability through 1:1s, pairing, code reviews, clinics, and communities of practice. Develop learning roadmaps for automation engineers and side-skill with the other Test Lead to cross-pollinate practices across chapters.
• Objectives, performance, progression frameworks, hiring/assessment, and wellbeing for the automation team.
• Work across multiple squads/initiatives, shaping test strategies, assuring delivery plans, unblocking teams, and communicating risks and trade-offs to senior stakeholders.
• Champion performance, reliability and accessibility testing; integrate checks into pipelines and partner with SRE/Platform/Security to automate NFR evidence.
• Define leading/lagging indicators (e.g., change fail rate, MTTD/MTTR, flake rate, escape rate), run experiments, and iterate on tooling and process based on data.

• Strong engineering skills in one or more of JavaScript/Type Script or Python, Java or C#; deep experience designing maintainable frameworks (e.g., Playwright/Cypress/Selenium, REST Assured/Pact for API & contract testing).
• Confident with Git, trunk-based development, and build pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins). Familiar with containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes) and cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP) in service of test execution at scale.
• Proven at setting automation strategies for multi-team programmes; influencing engineering leaders; balancing velocity, risk…