Quality Assurance Test Engineer Digital Banking Insurance
Posted 1 day ago by Jobserve
£200 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
London
Summary: The Quality Assurance Test Engineer will be integral to a Digital Banking team, focusing on delivering high-quality insurance products. This role involves designing and executing both manual and automated tests, collaborating with software engineers and product owners to enhance testing practices. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in software testing, particularly within the digital banking and insurance sectors. A strong emphasis is placed on utilizing modern testing tools and methodologies to ensure robust application performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, execute and maintain manual and automated test plans.
- Build and enhance UI and API test automation frameworks.
- Identify defects, validate fixes and ensure high-quality releases.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve testing practices and automation.
- Contribute to regression, functional and release testing within Agile delivery teams.
- Use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar to accelerate test development and improve productivity.
Key Skills:
- 5+ years' experience in Software Testing/QA Engineering.
- Strong experience within Digital Banking (essential).
- Experience testing modern web applications, APIs and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
- Experience creating and executing manual test cases and regression packs.
- Comfortable working in Agile environments and production-facing applications.
- Excellent experience working within Insurance or Financial Services.
- Performance or non-functional testing experience.
- Knowledge of software engineering practices including source control and CI/CD.
- Exposure to Kotlin/JVM, Java services or React applications.
- Communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Salary (Rate): £200.00 per day
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
We are looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Test Engineer to join a growing Digital Banking team delivering innovative insurance products used by hundreds of thousands of customers.
You'll play a key role in ensuring the quality of modern web applications and APIs, working closely with Software Engineers and Product Owners to build robust manual and automated testing solutions across the software development life cycle.
What You'll Be Doing- Design, execute and maintain manual and automated test plans.
- Build and enhance UI and API test automation frameworks.
- Identify defects, validate fixes and ensure high-quality releases.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve testing practices and automation.
- Contribute to regression, functional and release testing within Agile delivery teams.
- Use AI tools such as GitHub Copilot or similar to accelerate test development and improve productivity.
Essential Skills & Experience
- 5+ years' experience in Software Testing/QA Engineering.
- Strong experience within Digital Banking (essential).
- Experience testing modern web applications, APIs and microservices.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks.
- Experience creating and executing manual test cases and regression packs.
- Comfortable working in Agile environments and production-facing applications.
- Excellent experience working within Insurance or Financial Services.
- Performance or non-functional testing experience.
- Knowledge of software engineering practices including source control and CI/CD.
- Exposure to Kotlin/JVM, Java services or React applications.
- Communication and stakeholder engagement skills
If you're passionate about delivering high-quality software and enjoy working in fast-paced engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.
*Rates depend on experience and client requirements
