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You'll help Aflac use AI to modernise its longest-running core systems, and you'll own the question that matters most: how do we prove nothing broke?\nThis is not a traditional testing role. You will champion quality across the entire software development lifecycle, from discovery and planning through to production. You will combine hands on testing expertise with modern quality engineering practices, AI assisted tooling, automation, evaluation, and coaching.\nTwo kinds of quality matter here. The first is the software we produce: modern services that must behave exactly like the systems they replace. The second is the AI that produces it. Our engineers use AI agents to analyse, build, and test code. Those agents are non-deterministic, so you'll help define how we evaluate them, put guardrails around them, and prove they are reliable.\nWorking closely with AI Native Software Engineers, Architects, Security, domain experts and partner teams, you will define the quality strategies, evaluation frameworks and engineering standards that let us modernise at scale with confidence.\nThe Team\nThe AI Services team helps transform how Aflac uses AI at scale where it matters. Taking priority use cases from concept to production, proving what works early, and packaging the results so other teams can repeat them. This team leads Aflac's AI harness engineering methodology, equipping engineers and product teams with AI driven workflows and setting SDLC standards that make AI available, safe and scalable.\nOne of our current priorities is modernising some of Aflac's longest running core systems. Using Aflac's AI harness engineering methodology, AI Services will support the delivery teams by shaping the methods and patterns that turn legacy code into robust, testable modern services. Every pass records the issues found and feeds them back into the next one. Over time, each migration needs less manual fixing.\nAI Services Engineering operates as two functions. This role sits in the Context Engineering function, taking AI native products from concept to production and setting the AI harness engineering methodology behind them. The other function is AI Platform, owning the Agentic Platform: how Aflac runs agents at scale, cost efficiently and securely, with the right risk posture and robust operational controls. Alongside both sit AI Enablement, driving adoption, education and communication across the business. Two sides of one engineering team, working closely with the full AI Services team. You'll work with AI Native Software Engineers to build quality into the harness and every service it produces, and with AI Platform, Solution Architects, Enterprise Architecture, Security and domain experts in an agile environment.\nKey Responsibilities\nModernisation Quality\nOwn the quality strategy for each capability being modernised, from discovery through to go live\nDesign comparison testing that runs today's system and the new build on the same scenarios and proves they match\nIndependently verify each build, filing defects against evidence rather than fixing them in place\nDefine and enforce exact match standards for financial and regulatory outcomes, with no tolerance\nPlan and run parallel runs, period end checks and rehearsed rollback before any capability goes live\nBuild test data and scenario libraries that cover real business modes, record types and edge cases\nParticipate in system integration testing across multiple products, services and global teams\nAI Native Engineering and Evaluation\nDefine evaluation frameworks for the AI harness, including accuracy baselines, regression suites and quality metrics for agent output\nTest agentic and AI systems for non-deterministic behaviour, guardrail effectiveness, prompt injection and safe failure\nTrack the issues found on every harness pass and turn them into checks that stop the same defect returning\nHelp define automated quality gates covering coverage, code quality, security and behavioural evidence\nUse AI assisted engineering tools to accelerate test design, automation, test data generation and exploratory testing\nReview AI generated tests and code with a critical eye, and know when to trust them\nQuality Leadership\nDevelop risk-based test approaches that balance customer impact, business value, complexity and delivery timelines\nContribute to automated tests and CI/CD quality controls that support continuous delivery\nFacilitate example mapping and quality focused discovery to improve requirements and shared understanding\nCoach engineers on testability, automation and defect prevention, and promote shared ownership of quality\nPartner with Security, Architecture and Engineering to meet security, privacy, compliance and governance requirements\nContribute to the evolution of engineering standards, testing practices and quality frameworks across the organisation\nSkills and experience\nBelow is an overview of the skills and experience we are looking for, but remember, don't rule yourself out if you don't have everything on the list. It's your curiosity and your attitude we are really after.\nEssential\n5+ years of experience in software quality engineering, software testing or software development\nExperience defining and executing testing strategies for complex web, cloud or distributed systems\nStrong experience with Playwright, Robot Framework or equivalent automation tools\nExperience building and maintaining automated tests within CI/CD pipelines\nExperience using AI assisted engineering tools to improve testing effectiveness and productivity\nExperience testing data heavy or financial systems where accuracy is critical\nStrong understanding of Agile delivery and DevOps practices\nUnderstanding of security, privacy, compliance and governance requirements\nExcellent communication and coaching skills\nCandidates must be based in Northern Ireland with the relevant Right to Work visa\nDesirable\nExperience testing AI enabled applications, agentic systems or intelligent workflows\nExperience defining AI evaluation frameworks, accuracy baselines and quality metrics\nExperience with legacy migration, data reconciliation or parallel run testing\nExposure to mainframe technologies such as COBOL, JCL or batch processing\nExperience with Java, AWS and cloud native technologies\nExperience with event driven systems and messaging platforms (e.g. Kafka)\nExperience with observability, monitoring and diagnostics tools\nInsurance domain expertise, such as experience with policy administration, claims or billing systems\nSo that's us. Thanks for taking the time to read this far. 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