QA Engineer; SDET

Description

We are looking for a SDET engineer to join our growing business developing a wide range of market-leading Insur Tech solutions. You will join us at an exciting time as we focus increasingly on cloud/SaaS solutions, upgrading existing products to new technologies and modern UX, as well as developing brand-new applications.

As a SDET Engineer, you will work alongside other engineers as part of a close-knit Scrum team to ensure our products meet high levels of reliability, maintainability, usability, and performance.

• Able to drive test strategies for large-scale, complex features and new applications.
• Design, implement, and maintain test frameworks and environments to support automation-first testing.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Technical Leads to refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and quality expectations.
• Partner with developers to create story-level test plans and achieve high levels of automated test coverage.
• Develop and maintain automated tests across the full testing pyramid (unit, integration, API, UI, performance, security).
• Execute a wide range of functional and non-functional tests (Manual, when necessary, but automation-focused).
• Perform exploratory testing on new features to uncover edge cases and usability issues.
• Debug product and test code, identifying defects, reliability issues, or performance bottlenecks.
• Provide test data analysis and clear reporting at key checkpoints or milestones.
• Participate fully in Agile ceremonies (planning, stand-ups, retrospectives), continuously driving improvements in team velocity, quality, and engineering practices.
• Advocate for testability and quality in design discussions, ensuring best practices are embedded in architecture and code.
• Research, evaluate, and introduce new tools or methodologies that enhance test effectiveness and CI/CD pipelines, sharing knowledge across teams.

• Experience with software project management tools (Azure Dev Ops, Jira)
• Extensive experience with test automation tools like cypress, playwright
• Exposure to behavior driven development (BDD) and test-driven development (TDD)
• Hands on experience developing and maintaining tests in PACT
• Proficient in software development using scripting and OO languages including Python
• Experience in developing tests at integration, component, and unit test levels
• Strong knowledge of test frameworks.

• Awareness of current and emerging test-related technologies and methodologies.
• Willing to participate in and often lead technical discussion(s)
• Ability to learn and/or adapt quickly to highly complex issues
• Exposure to AI technologies and testing process