Overview
Senior QA Engineer to join the Insurer team on CDL’s Insurer System (Policy Manager), a cloud-based platform used by insurers and MGAs to manage policies, risk data, and related financial processes.
Location: North West UK - Hybrid | Compensation: £45,000 - £54,000 per year
What You'll Do
- Lead and improve testing and automation practices within the Insurer team, helping deliver a high-quality platform for insurers and MGAs
- Work with software engineers and product teams to ensure quality is considered from the earliest stages of design and development
- Validate complex data flows, including policy data imports, updates, and reprocessing, ensuring accuracy and reliability
- Support testing of integrations and APIs, connecting the platform to third-party systems used across the insurance ecosystem
- Help maintain confidence in financial and accounting-related features, including premium data, reporting, and audit trails
- Drive best practice across functional, performance, and security testing in a cloud-hosted environment
- Improve test automation coverage and reliability, contributing to CI/CD pipelines and fast feedback for teams
- Coach and mentor others, helping build strong quality and testing practices across the team
- Continuously look for ways to improve tooling, processes, and how quality is approached day-to-day
- Encourage pragmatic thinking, innovation, and high standards while keeping delivery focused and practical
What You'll Bring
- A strong understanding of modern testing principles and how they apply across cross-functional delivery teams
- The ability to define and apply effective test strategies for complex, data-driven systems, balancing automation, exploratory testing, and risk-based approaches
- Experience promoting a shift-left approach to quality, embedding good testing and quality practices early in the development lifecycle
- Confidence investigating issues across environments, using logs, metrics, and data to understand failures and support root-cause analysis
- A mindset of continuous improvement, actively contributing to better testing practices, standards, and tooling through collaboration and knowledge sharing
- A solid working knowledge of TDD and BDD, and when to apply them effectively
- A collaborative, pragmatic approach, working closely with Product and Engineering to deliver shared outcomes
- Broad testing knowledge with a strong specialism in test automation
- Hands-on experience with modern automated testing tools such as Karate and Cypress, applied thoughtfully across the test pyramid
- Familiarity with a range of testing and delivery tools across the SDLC, including API testing and documentation, exploratory testing, performance testing, and work tracking
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, contributing to and maintaining automated quality checks within modern delivery workflows, such as GitLab
- Comfort working within AWS-hosted, cloud-based systems, supporting effective testing and quality assurance across distributed services
- A proven ability to take improvement ideas from concept through to delivery
- Practical experience using AI-enabled tooling or techniques within the delivery lifecycle to improve testing efficiency, coverage, or insight
- Curiosity and openness to emerging AI-assisted testing approaches, with a focus on real-world, practical application
Desirable Extras
- Knowledge of accessibility standards and practices (e.g. WCAG), with the ability to consider accessibility as part of broader testing strategies
- Experience designing and executing test approaches across both web and desktop applications, ensuring consistent quality and usability
- Exposure to AI-powered testing tools
- Confidence querying relational databases (e.g. Postgres) using SQL to support testing, debugging, and root-cause analysis
- Experience with performance and security testing
- Previous experience working in or alongside the insurance or financial services domain
Benefits
The salary for the role of Senior QA Engineer pays up to £54,000 per year, with progression through CDL’s career framework. Your growth and advancement within CDL are tied to ambition and effort.
- Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office)
- Truly flexible working
- 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per year of service up to 30 days
- Top employer for 10th year running
- Excellent training and development platform
- Opportunities for career progression
- Health and Wellbeing programme
- Virtual activities, lunch and learns, and meetups
- Life and health assurance
- Electric Vehicle Scheme
- Recognitions and awards program
- Parental benefits
- Diversity and Inclusion network
- Pension scheme
- Community projects and volunteer days
- Refer a friend bonus
Diversity and Inclusion
CDL recognises that building a diverse workforce is critical to the success of our business. We strongly encourage applications from a diverse talent pool and welcome the opportunity to discuss flexibility requirements and workplace adjustments with all applicants.
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