Junior Quality Engineer

Summary

Join INSTANDA's Quality Engineering team as a Junior Quality Engineer and contribute to the growth of this leading Insurtech company. Collaborate with product and development teams to ensure high-quality software releases. The role involves defining acceptance criteria, executing manual tests, reporting issues, and documenting findings. You will work in an agile environment, utilizing your software testing expertise and communication skills. The position is primarily remote, based in the UK, with some travel to the London office required. Sponsorship is not available for this role.

Requirements

• At least 6 months experience with manual or automated software testing (preferable)
• Understanding of software testing concepts, methodologies, and good practices
• Familiarity with testing tools and bug tracking systems is a plus
• Exposure to Agile methodologies
• A strong understanding of HTML (CSS is a plus)
• Basic knowledge of APIs and ability to perform API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger
• Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills - we are a fast paced, agile environment
• Flexible, resilient, and commercial attitude coupled with a high degree of intellectual curiosity
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal and external stakeholders (other teams, vendors, suppliers, etc.)
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability

Responsibilities

• Collaborating with Product Owners and Development teams to define Acceptance Criteria
• Actively participate in all phases of software development lifecycles
• Analysing requirements, plans, prepare test cases and test scenarios
• Executing manual tests
• Reporting issues and documenting the results of your work and findings
• Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Actively participate in sharing knowledge and building Instanda community
• Implementing testing techniques and strategies
• Continuously striving to improve individually and as part of a team

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience writing scripts using C# is an asset
• Previous exposure working with a SaaS product, a high growth company or in the insurance industry is an asset
• ISTQB Foundation in Software Testing

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Generous 28 days holiday allowance, in addition to public holidays
• For every year of service you complete, we’ll give you an additional days holiday (max. 5 days)
• One Dynamic Day per month on top of your holiday allowance to spend time doing the things you want to do or simply catching up with life admin
• Freedom Pass work up to 4 weeks of the year from anywhere
• FlexiBank you decide when to use your public holiday allocation
• Hybrid Working approach varying with the nature of your role
• Life cover; income protection and participation in the company pension scheme
• All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme
• ��100 per month to put towards wellness activities
• Annual learning & development allowance of £1,250
• Free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platform