We currently have an exciting position for a Test Engineer to come and join the Information Technology team.

This role will be within the web platform team, working within scrum teams on our key web apps, such as Quote & Payments.  The successful candidate will be responsible for providing test support to the wider team as well as helping to evolve and maintain the selenium-based automation test framework for our web apps. The role involves working closely with our Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Solution Designers and Product Owners. The role may also involve mentoring junior members of the team.

Duties & Responsibilities Include:

• Contributing to scoping, managing and implementing test strategies, plans and execution and/or providing Automation, BDD or Performance Engineering consultative skills

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

• Developing and maintain the selenium test automation suite

• Working with business analysts and developers to develop tests and feature files, ensuring business requirements are understood

• Managing deployments and our Azure Devops pipelines

• Management and maintenance of our virtual services

• The ability to identify bugs in an application and communicate effectively with stakeholders

• Prepare appropriate test data and environments

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

• Defining regressions test and input into the scope of existing regression packs

• Working collaboratively with both IT and business stakeholders

Skills & Experience Required:

• Practical experience of creating test automation frameworks, ideally with C# or Java – would be an advantage

• In depth experience of working with Agile delivery teams

• Knowledge and hands on experience with service virtualisation

• Exposure to BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)

• Experience with CI tooling

• Good overall understanding of web application technologies

• Knowledge of non-functional testing including performance and security

•  Awareness of accessibility testing obligations and risks

•  Knowledge of cloud-based device testing possibilities

• Excellent communication skills and attention to detail

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

• A passion for testing, development, and design

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