Please note that this is a hybrid role, with 2 days a week spent on-site at our Belfast offices.
About Aflac
Aflac is a Fortune 500 company and one of the largest brands in the US and Japan. While we may not be a household name, we have been building great technology since 2019 to support our customers in their time of need.
Role Context
We are looking for a talented tech enthusiast to join one of our efficient engineering teams. Our feature teams are tight-knit, high-performing groups responsible for building leading-edge solutions in various technologies and domains, including Low-code, Web & Mobile, and the Cloud.
Key Responsibilities
* Being at the heart of the testing lifecycle: developing test plans, ensuring effective test coverage, executing tests, identifying and logging defects, working with engineers to resolve defects, and supporting regression testing.
* Functional, workflow, and end-to-end testing of n-tier web applications, including creating and maintaining automated tests where necessary.
* Participating in system integration testing with colleagues from multiple global teams.
* Continually improving engineering and testing processes.
* Providing best practice coaching to developers to promote defensive coding habits.
* Facilitating example mapping sessions to help build a complete picture of user story requirements.
* Contributing to the maintenance of CI/CD pipelines.
* Contributing to the creation and maintenance of automated test scripts.
Skills and Experience
We are looking for candidates with the following skills and experience:
* 5+ years of IT experience in client-server design/development.
* Experience with targeted test automation strategies.
* Ability to work well within a team environment, maximising different strengths across the team.
* Key technology experience of test automation tools, preferably Robot Framework and Playwright.
* Commercial experience of agile testing processes and the Dev Ops lifecycle.
* Experience implementing security standards that meet privacy requirements for web/portal/mobile applications.
* Bachelor's degree, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or a STEM subject.
* Comparable commercial experience will also be considered.
We are open to experience with different types of Agile project delivery, cloud data tools such as AWS, and other valuable technologies like Robot Framework, REST-based API testing knowledge, object-oriented concepts, and GIT.