Senior Automation Lead

Senior Automation Lead

Salary: National circa £75,000

Locations: Norwich/ Bristol/ Leatherhead

This is a great job for someone who is passionate about quality engineering and excited to lead the evolution of testing practices in a modern, technology-driven environment. You might be an experienced Test Specialist or Quality Engineer ready to step up into a more strategic, leadership-focused role, or someone who already coaches others and wants to broaden their impact.

This role would suit someone who enjoys combining hands-on technical expertise with mentoring, and who thrives on driving continuous improvement through automation, data, and innovation.

A bit about the role

You’ll join Aviva’s Quality Engineering (QE) team, working across a diverse, multi-site environment supporting a range of platforms, features, and projects. In this role, you’ll champion a “quality first” mindset, shaping and implementing QE standards, tools, and frameworks that improve efficiency, automation, and overall delivery quality. You’ll provide technical leadership to quality engineers—coaching, mentoring, and enabling them to succeed—while using data and insight to identify risks, trends, and opportunities.

You’ll also play a key role in evolving our QE capabilities, including automation, AI/ML, and modern testing practices, ensuring we deliver better outcomes for our customers and business.

Skills and experience we’re looking for

• Proven ability to define, implement, and govern QE standards, frameworks, and best practices, while providing technical leadership and mentoring to quality engineers.
• Strong experience driving automation using frameworks like Playwright, Cypress, C#, process optimisation, and efficiency improvements using modern QE techniques, tools, and engineering practices.
• Skilled in establishing QE KPIs and OKRs, analysing quality metrics, identifying trends and risks, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Hands-on experience evaluating and adopting advanced QE technologies including GenAI, AI/ML, test automation using MCPs, data generation, and environment virtualisation tools.
• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams (Engineering, DevOps, Architecture, Product) to design QE solutions, while managing risk and embedding a quality-first mindset across the organisation.

What you’ll get for this role:

Our purpose - with you today, for a better tomorrow – is a promise we make to our colleagues too.  And one of the ways we live up to that promise is by investing in you.  We have so much to offer when it comes to being an Aviva colleague.

• Starting salary circa £75,000 for National based (depending on location, skills, experience, and qualifications)
• Bonus opportunity 10% of annual salary - Actual amount depends on your performance and Aviva’s
• Generous pension scheme - Aviva will contribute up to 14%, depending on what you put in
• 29 days holiday plus bank holidays, and you can choose to buy or sell up to 5 days
• Make your money go further - Up to 40% discount on Aviva products, and other retailer discounts
• Up to £1,200 of free Aviva shares per year through our Matching Share Plan and share in the success of Aviva with our Save As You Earn scheme
• Brilliantly supportive policies including parental and carer’s leave
• Flexible benefits to suit you, including sustainability options such as cycle to work
• Make a difference, be part of our Aviva Communities and use your 3 paid volunteering days to help others
• We take your wellbeing seriously with lots of support and tools

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Aviva is for everyone:

We’re inclusive and welcome everyone – we want applications from all backgrounds and experiences. Excited but not sure you tick every box? Even if you don’t, we would still encourage you to apply. We also consider all forms of flexible working, including part time and job shares.

We flex locations, hours and working patterns to suit our customers, business, and you. Most of our people are smart working – spending around 50% of their time in our offices every week - combining the benefits of flexibility, with time together with colleagues.

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We’d love it if you could submit your application online. If you require an alternative method of applying, please give Harjot Kaur a call on 07353138456 or send an email to harjot.kaur@aviva.com