Test Engineer

**12-month Fixed term contract.

We have an opportunity for a Test Engineer to join the Release, Test & Environments team.  This role will be working within IT projects to ensure the functionality developed is to a high-standard and act as a conscience to the team.  This will be achieved through robust test script creation and test execution.

The successful candidate will sit within an Agile platform delivery team, collaborating with all team members across the business & IT to build fantastic code that gives our customers what they need.

The role will be working closely with aligned Test Manager & Senior Test Manager, helping to suggest and drive improvements within project and also wider Assurance team.  You will use your automation and engineering principles knowledge to help improve our processes, working with our partners to deliver higher quality code quickly and safely.

Duties & Responsibilities Include:

• Defining and agreeing test scope for each story/delivery

• Developing and executing test scripts

• Understanding and advocating agile testing methodologies through behaviours and technical input

• Helping to define automation test strategies and deliver through technical knowledge and ability

• Understand best practice and continually strive to automate and improve our processes

• Make recommendations for changes to processes or testing based on results/trend analysis

• Desirable for candidate to have knowledge of using and creating test automation frameworks / automated tests and how this can be integrated into CI/CD pipeline

• Proactively identify, manage, and mitigate risks whilst sharing knowledge locally and across the wider Assurance team

Skills & Experience Required:

• Good knowledge and experience of creating and maintaining automated tests – experience of building robust test automation frameworks will be an advantage

• Test automation tooling experience – Selenium would be preferable

• Knowledge of Agile delivery and understanding of other delivery methodologies

• Excellent communication skills, Stakeholder Management and attention to detail

• Strong data analysis, problem solving & decision-making skills

What will you get for this role?

• Salary circa £40,000 depending on skills, experience and qualifications

• Generous defined contribution pension scheme

• Annual performance related bonus and pay review

• Holiday allowance of 29 days plus bank holidays and the option to buy/sell up to 5 additional days

• Up to 40% discount for some Aviva products through “My Aviva Extras” plus discounts for Friends and Family. (Some exclusions apply)

• Excellent range of flexible benefits to include a matching share save scheme

Working at Aviva

At Aviva, we’re people with a purpose. To be with you today, for a better tomorrow.

We bring this to life by ensuring managing risk is at the heart of the way we all work. We love people who do the right thing for our customers, and our colleagues. We want people who speak up, who take ownership, and who make good decisions.

The way we do this is important too, we’re all about our people – that’s you – so we can be pretty flexible. If you want to work from home some of the time or change your hours so you can pick up your kids or care for someone in your family, we’re very open to that. In fact, we don’t advertise roles as either part or full time, because we know each person has different needs, just as each business area has different needs. So, it’s up to you to discuss working hours during your interview.

We care deeply about being inclusive and that means we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We want our employees to bring their whole self to work and that starts with you.

We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Guv a call on 0750 008 7919 or send an email to Guv.johal@aviva.com.

*As defined in The Equality Act 2010*. By ‘minimum criteria’ we mean you should provide us with evidence which demonstrates that you generally meet the level of competence required and have the qualifications, skills or experience defined as essential to perform the role.