Aberdeen
Quality Engineer at Aberdeen in Edinburgh
Job Description
Quality Engineer
Location: Edinburgh
Job Description
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:
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.
About Aberdeen Adviser Product & Technology
Hybrid in Edinburgh
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.
As a Quality Engineer, you will help deliver trusted digital experiences that support our purpose and enable our clients to be better investors while investing in your tomorrow.
About the Department
The Quality Engineering team plays a vital role in ensuring quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle. Working within cross-functional product squads, the team partners with engineers, product managers and designers to establish robust testing practices, improve software reliability and support continuous delivery. The team champions a quality-first culture that helps Aberdeen deliver secure, resilient and customer-focused digital products.
About the Role
Based in Edinburgh, this permanent role offers the opportunity to shape quality practices across multiple agile squads. Reporting to the Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, you will define testing strategy, guide quality standards and support engineering teams in adopting effective automated and exploratory testing approaches. You will balance hands-on quality engineering with coaching and enablement, helping teams improve coverage, reliability and customer outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to influence modern testing practices, mobile application quality and AI-driven testing approaches while continuing to develop your own career. (Assumed region: UK)
Key Responsibilities
Define test strategies and coverage across unit, component, API, integration and end-to-end testing layers.
Collaborate with engineers, designers and product managers to build quality into products from the earliest stages of development.
Design and contribute to automated and exploratory testing for web and mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms.
Mentor engineering teams on testing best practice, CI/CD integration, automation and shift-left quality approaches.
Drive improvements in quality frameworks, tooling, performance, accessibility, security and service resilience testing.
Leverage AI-driven testing techniques to improve test coverage, execution efficiency and defect detection.
About the Candidate
Essential criteria:
Experience in both manual and automated software testing and an understanding of when each approach is appropriate.
Experience testing mobile applications on iOS and/or Android platforms.
Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, JUnit or Postman.
Experience defining testing strategies and working within agile, cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with cloud platforms, ideally Azure, and CI/CD pipelines.
Ability to coach and influence engineers to improve quality practices and standards.
Desirable criteria:
Exposure to mobile automation frameworks such as Maestro.
Experience with device cloud platforms such as BrowserStack.
Knowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript environments.
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.
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.
Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a 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. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.