Senior Quality Engineer

Job Title: Senior Quality Engineer

Reporting to: Quality Engineering Product Manager

Position Type: Permanent, Mon-Fri, 9-5

Location: Rearsby, onsite 3 days a week, 2 days working from home

Why Tokio Marine HCC?

Standing still is not an option in the current world of Insurance. TMHCC are one of the world’s leading Specialty Insurers. With deep expertise in our chosen lines of business, our unparalleled track record and a solid balance sheet, TMHCC evaluates and manages risk like no one else in the industry. Looking beyond profit, empowering our people and delivering on our commitments are at the core of our customer values, and so is a desire to grow and provide creative and innovative solutions to our clients.

Job Purpose

• The Senior Quality Engineer will be responsible for leading and delivering all aspects of testing within a business aligned product team. This is a techno functional hands-on role with strong Agile test delivery experience to guide, oversee & deliver testing activities within a product team.
• In this role, the candidate will lead testing efforts, mentor/guide offshore testers when required, and ensure the delivery of high-quality releases. The candidate will balance leadership responsibilities (~25%) with hands-on involvement (~75%) in test planning, preparation & execution to drive continuous improvement in our Agile testing processes.
• This role will operationally report to the Quality Engineering Practice Manager with a dotted line delivery reporting into the respective Engineering Delivery Lead.

Key Responsibilities

Test Delivery & Collaboration:

• Act as a quality advocate within the Product team, working with cross-functional Agile team members (Engineering Delivery Leads, Developers, offshore testers, Product Owner, Business Analysts) to ensure high-quality test deliverables.
• Work closely with the respective Engineering Delivery Lead / Manager on the day-to-day testing activities and where possible drive a shift-left test approach.
• Participate in all stages of the agile software development lifecycle including Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, test planning, estimation, refinement, etc.
• Collaborate with the Quality Engineering Practice Manager to facilitate and improve testing practices, establish the framework to track quality metrics such as test coverage, automation coverage (%), defect density, defect leakage etc.
• Collaborate with our test partners (offshore test team) with respect to day-to-day testing activities and where required guide the offshore team members, fostering skill development and collaboration.
• Quickly understand the critical business processes within the assigned LOB and document / build out an in-house knowledge repository.

Hands-On Testing & Test Automation

• Design, develop, and execute manual and automated test cases, ensuring coverage of functional, integration, and regression test scenarios.
• Hands on experience of creating, maintaining & enhancing test automation scripts built using UI automation tool such as Katalon Studio.
• Collaborate closely with the Engineering Delivery Leads to explore opportunities to introduce in sprint automation within the testing lifecycle.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects and ensure timely resolution with development teams.
• Support business users with acceptance testing where required and facilitate demos as and when required during the sprint lifecycle.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to iron out environment/deployment issues.

Performance Objectives

• Adapt quickly to the assigned product team and ways of working.
• Effective collaboration with key product team stakeholders (Engineering Delivery Manager / EDL, PO, BA, Dev Lead & offshore partner team) and demonstrate testing contribution.
• Establish a knowledge transition plan by working closely with the Product team stakeholders i.e. Engineering Delivery Lead, Product Owner (and BA).
• Effective collaboration with the Quality Engineering Practice Manager to facilitate and improve testing practices.

Essential

Skills and Experience Specification:

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years working with Scrum teams specializing in both manual testing and test automation.
• Leadership & Technical Expertise: At least 2-3 years of experience as a Senior Quality Engineer, with proficiency in Pega, test automation tools (Katalon Professional or Expert certified), DevOps pipelines (CI/CD), API testing (e.g. Postman), SQL query development & optimisation and Azure Dev Ops (Azure Test Plans).
• Soft Skills: Analytical thinking, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and the ability to handle high-pressure situations.
• Language Skills: High proficiency in written and spoken English.

Desirable

• Preferred Experience/Certifications: Strong understanding of Trade Credit business and scripted testing experience for load or performance testing.

What We Offer

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of Companies offers a competitive salary and employee benefit package. We are a successful, dynamic organization experiencing rapid growth and are seeking energetic and confident individuals to join our team of professionals. The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.

The Tokio Marine HCC Group of companies is an equal opportunity employer. Please visit www.tmhcc.com for more information about our companies.