Job Description

General information

Job Title

Senior Test Engineer

Ref #

9603

Location

Edinburgh - 2 South Gyle Crescent, Edinburgh, EH12 9FQ

Department

IMS - Engineering

Business Area

Engineering

Working time

Full-Time

Date Published

06-08-2026

Serving our customers, communities, and planet a little better every day.

Salary - up to £75,360 (depending on experience) + annual bonus & benefits

Work Level – 2E

Location – Newcastle, Glasgow or Edinburgh. Permanent

Office Attendance – Our hybrid working model gives you the best of both worlds - flexibility to work from home and valuable face-to-face time with colleagues. This role typically requires up to an average of 1 day per week onsite.

Closing Date - Applications close on 14th September at 5pm

Why this role?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join the team at a pivotal time as we continue to invest in our technology estate and engineering capabilities. As a Senior Test Engineer, you'll help drive quality across key business and customer-facing platforms, ensuring solutions are reliable, scalable and fit for purpose. Bringing expertise in both functional and performance testing, you'll work on strategic technology initiatives, collaborate with stakeholders across the organisation, and play a key role in delivering high-quality solutions that support our colleagues, customers and business outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

• Deliver robust, high-quality software by designing and executing effective functional and performance testing across complex technology solutions.
• Improve product reliability and customer experience by identifying defects, performance bottlenecks and quality risks before they reach production.
• Increase test efficiency and coverage through the development and enhancement of automated testing frameworks and tooling.
• Ensure systems perform at scale by designing and executing performance, load and resilience testing activities.
• Support successful delivery of business-critical initiatives by collaborating closely with engineers, product teams, stakeholders and multiple third-party suppliers, ensuring quality outcomes across complex delivery landscapes.
• Drive continuous improvement in engineering quality by applying modern testing techniques, sharing technical expertise and championing best practices within delivery teams.

What we’re looking for (minimum criteria)

• Proven experience in software testing and quality engineering, with a strong track record of delivering high-quality solutions across complex technology environments.
• Strong automation testing skills, including experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks within modern CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience of Performance testing, including load, resilience and scalability testing using industry-standard tools and practices.
• Experience of delivering testing activities using both Agile delivery methodologies and structured project approaches across complex, time-bound initiatives, balancing quality, risk and delivery commitments.

And if you have any of these, even better

• Experience working within the Financial Services sector, with preferred understanding of the end-to-end insurance lifecycle including quote, policy administration, claims, underwriting or customer servicing platforms, and of delivering quality engineering within regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner across complex enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of API, integration and microservices testing within distributed systems architectures.
• Experience of line management within a technology or engineering function, developing individual and team capability through coaching, mentoring and performance management, while maintaining a strong focus on delivery and quality outcomes.

We welcome applications from everyone. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you.

What’s in it for you

• A generous pension, with up to 7.5% employer contribution, depending on what you put in.
• Private Medical Insurance (WL2+) and virtual GP Service for you and your family.
• Performance related annual bonus.
• 7.2 weeks holiday, with the opportunity to buy more.
• Colleague Clubcard discount (10-15% + second card to share with someone else).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• Opportunities to Save and Buy as you earn.
• A place to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities to help you achieve the job and career you want.

Interviews

As a Disability Confident Employer (Level 2), we’re committed to creating an accessible and supportive environment for all. We offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process, including interviews, to ensure every candidate has a fair opportunity to succeed.

We also know the importance of balancing work with life’s other commitments. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need, as we’re committed to exploring part time and flexible working opportunities, at every level of the organisation.

Interviews are expected to be held shortly after closing date.

Why Tesco Insurance and Money Services?

Seeing your impact all around you: there's no better feeling.

Lucky for us, we get to feel it all the time. Because whatever our role, we're helping our colleagues and serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day.

We deal in the personal – from pet insurance for your best friend, and home insurance for peace of mind, to motor insurance for your dream car or travel money for that trip you’ve worked hard for.

Everything we do is about making things better. Not just for others, but for you too. It's why you'll get bags of choice and plenty of development. It's why you'll always be heard and find balance that works for you. It's why you'll feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome.

So, if you want a career where you can do good and feel good, you've found it.

Let's make everyday a little better.

Our story

Making Insurance and Money Services more rewarding and offering great value and choice - because we know little wins can make a big difference.

We began life in 1997 and now help more than 2 million customers protect what matters to them.

We want to deliver a helpful service in everything we do and to make life easier for our customers. Our policies are really easy to manage online for our customers, but we know that being able to speak to our customer service staff when you need to is really important. This is why our customer service centres are open seven days a week.

Delivering great customer service means having great people behind the scenes – people who understand our customers and are driven by doing the right thing for them. We offer colleagues a place where they can feel totally at home in a place where everyone's welcome, where they can be part of a great team focused on making a real difference for our customers.

How to apply

We value our people and diverse teams and believe the variety of backgrounds and experiences make us stronger to achieve our goals.

Our colleagues are working hybrid, taking time to meet with colleagues in our offices for moments that matter, such as team catch ups, planning meetings and more. If you’re interested in finding out more about what a career at Tesco Insurance and Money Services looks like, click apply to find out more!