
Quality Engineer
INSTANDA
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: India
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About the role
- Collaborating with Product Owner and Development teams to define Acceptance Criteria
- Actively participate in all phases of software development lifecycles
- Analysing requirements, design, develop and execute test plans, test cases and test scripts
- Analyse testing results and provide detailed reports on software quality
- Mentoring other team members
- Contribute to automation test scripts and frameworks
- Communicating effectively with technical and non-technical colleagues
- Actively participate in sharing knowledge and building Instanda community
- Implementing testing techniques and strategies
- Continuously improve testing processes and identify areas for enhancement
- **Senior Level:**
- Lead and oversee testing efforts across multiple projects or teams
- Develop and implement test strategies aligned with project goals
- Perform complex testing, including performance, security and API testing
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define quality metrics and success criteria
- Providing guidance and share the knowledge with a wider QA Team
- Adhere to INSTANDA’s information security policies, guidelines and best practices to protect our company and our clients.
- Contribute to a culture of security awareness within the company.
Requirements
- At least 3+ years experience in software testing
- Professional experience with deployment and testing tools such as Azure, Test Rail, Selenium, Playwright, Xray, Jira, etc.
- Experience with user-configurable software, which works according to business rules configured by non-technical users
- Proficiency in manual test execution and exposure to automation
- Hands-on experience with API testing using tools like Postman or Swagger
- A strong understanding of HTML and CSS
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and testing lifecycle (SDLC/STLC)
- Exceptional organisation and prioritisation skills - we are a fast paced, agile environment
- Flexible, resilient and commercially minded, with a strong curiosity for problem-solving
- Confident communicator able to work effectively with internal teams, vendors and external partners
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability and commitment to quality
- 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
- Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Kibana / Elastic is an asset
- In addition to core job requirements, we ask that you:
- Have a high level of proficiency in English
- Can work a schedule that generally overlaps with a typical UK work day (9am to 5:30pm GMT)
Benefits
- Competitive salary package
- Generous 28 days annual leave, plus bank holidays.
- 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.
- All employees are included in the company discretionary bonus scheme.
- Annual individual learning & development allowance of INR100,000
- Free access to LinkedIn learning and Microsoft ESI learning platforms
- INSTANDA partners with a local Employer of Record (EOR) entity to manage salary and benefits for our India based employees. Benefits are country-specific but generally include medical, vision, and dental insurance and more.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
software testingtest planstest casestest scriptsAPI testingHTMLCSSC#automation testingAgile methodologies
Soft Skills
collaborationmentoringcommunicationorganisationprioritisationflexibilityresilienceproblem-solvingownershipaccountability