QA

The Role

Responsible for ddefining and executing testing strategies according to business needs and acting as technical referent towards more junior roles.

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate and champion Charles Taylor Values by ensuring Agility, Integrity, Care, and Accountability and collaboration.
• Define and execute testing strategies (functional, regression, integration, smoke, etc.).
• Identify, document, and track bugs clearly and with prioritization.
• Automate test cases when necessary or coordinate their automation.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies: refinements, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Propose improvements in testing processes and ensure their adoption.
• Be a technical reference and mentor for junior/semi-senior testers.
• Validate environments, data, and acceptance criteria for E2E testing.
• Collaborate with developers, product, and UX to detect deviations early.

Required Skills

• 4+ years of proven experience in QA
• Solid knowledge of manual testing
• Intermediate knowledge of SQL
• Experience with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Experience in API REST Testing
• Proficiency with tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, TestRail, or similar
• Ability to read logs, analyse errors, and perform functional troubleshooting
• Critical thinking and a strong focus on product quality
• Advanced level of English, both spoken and written (excludable)
• Programming knowledge (Postman, Selenium, Cypress, or similar) (desirable)
• Automation with modern frameworks (desirable)
• Background in UX or exploratory testing (desirable)
• Knowledge of insurance (desirable)
• Contributions to process and QA KPI’s improvement

Why join Charles Taylor InsureTech?

The Charles Taylor InsureTech team blends hands-on insurance expertise with fresh thinking from the worlds of technology consulting, financial services, ecommerce and beyond.

As a newly established business which is part of Charles Taylor, we combine the agility of a start up with the security and scale of a corporate. The result is a pragmatic-yet-pioneering approach that we’ve used to help clients reimagine central market systems, launch self-service digital insurance products, automate regulatory reporting requirements and more.

We are very proud of the fact that nine out of ten of our people recommend Charles Taylor as a place to work. We pride ourselves on having a positive work environment where our people are empowered to make the best decisions and where learning is valued highly and shared across our business.

We are very committed to ensuring our people are given continuous learning and development. As well as structured induction programmes and job training, we provide study support for relevant professional qualifications and have a Core Learning & Development Curriculum.

Charles Taylor is a fun and inclusive place to work where people are truly valued and encouraged to enjoy a host of social and sporting activities available. Quiz nights, tennis tournaments, football matches and a range of other events take place throughout the year