Job Title: SeniorQuality Engineer
Target Start Date: ASAP
Contract Type: Permanent, Part Time, Full Time, Job Share option available
Salary Range: £50,000 - £60,000
Location: Eastleigh - Hybrid
Closing Date for applications: Monday 6th April
Senior Quality Engineer: Ageas/esure are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer, with a strong background in software testing, to be a key contributor within an Agile, product‑focused squad, ensuring that high‑quality, reliable and secure software is delivered at speed to support business objectives.
Working within complex system landscapes and modern engineering frameworks, the role plays a crucial part in identifying risks early, upholding testing standards and driving continuous improvement.
Main Responsibilities as Senior Quality Engineer:
1. Assess changes and ensure suitable manual and automated test coverage aligned to Ageas and esure standards.
2. Highlight and manage any risks to quality or testing standards.
3. Act as a proactive senior member of the QA community.
4. Contribute to testing and tech forums, driving improvements and automation within the squad and wider teams
5. Be a testing expert and team lead helping to build software and customer experiences that support Ageas business strategy.
Skills and experience you need as Senior Quality Engineer:
6. Strong programming skills in Java (or similar modern language) with understanding of object‑oriented design, clean coding and refactoring.
7. Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test solutions across UI, API and integration layers.
8. Experience testing large enterprise systems, including front‑office (CRM/policy admin), middleware, APIs and back‑office platforms.
9. Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement and influencing skills.
10. Proven ability to work collaboratively within cross‑functional engineering teams.
At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.
Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy at Ageas:
Flexible Working- Smart Working @ Ageas gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it’s within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.
Supporting your Health- Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities – Mindfulness.
Supporting your Wealth- 50% off esure and Sheilas' Wheels motor and home insurance, Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.
Supporting you at Work- Well-being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.
Supporting you and your Family-Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks’ full pay.
Benefits for Them- Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.
Get some Tech- Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.
Getting around- Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.
Supporting you back to work- Return to work programme after maternity leave.