Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers, and stakeholders to define clear acceptance criteria, including cross-functional requirements.
• Promote and advocate for quality throughout the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) by applying both shift-left and shift-right quality practices.
• Guide the team’s testing strategy and contribute to the overall departmental quality and testing strategy.
• Adapt testing approaches based on evolving project and team requirements.
• Define and implement efficient testing processes, methodologies, and best practices.
• Balance exploratory and automated testing efforts to achieve optimal test coverage.
• Drive the development of reliable automated test suites with strong reporting capabilities for effective failure analysis.
• Integrate testing processes seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to support rapid and reliable software delivery.
• Encourage and support Test-Driven Development (TDD) and pair programming practices.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and agility within the development team.
• Share innovative ideas and best practices related to quality engineering and Agile methodologies with both the delivery team and the wider Quality Engineering community.
• Mentor and support fellow Quality Engineers and team members.

Skills & Abilities

• Strong hands-on experience in performance testing, UI automation, API testing, and contract testing.
• Ability to understand and enhance existing alerting and monitoring dashboards to improve product quality visibility.
• Thrive in cross-functional Agile teams, collaborating closely with Developers, Product Owners, Agile Delivery Leads, Quality Engineers, Engineering Managers, and other stakeholders.
• Work as an embedded Quality Engineer within one of two teams supporting the legacy platform.
• Take ownership of testing activities for new features, bug fixes, and release readiness across multiple business domains.
• Proactively communicate risks, blockers, and test coverage updates to stakeholders.

Knowledge & Experience

API Frameworks

• C#
• Reqnroll
• NUnit / xUnit
• RestSharp
• Playwright (TypeScript)
• Playwright (C#)
• k6 (nice to have)

Additional Skills

• Familiarity with Azure DevOps and cloud-based tools
• Insurance domain knowledge is an added advantage