Senior QA Engineer

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.