Senior Quality Engineer

About the Team and our Scope 

Our team, a software house within Swiss Re, develops cloud-native (Azure-based) SaaS/PaaS solutions for external Life & Health insurance clients. Our portfolio includes globally established products and those in growth or incubation stages. We utilize the latest technology and prioritize innovation to stay competitive. 

Our technical team comprises professionals with multidisciplinary skills, located in various countries, delivering highly available, multi-regional solutions used worldwide. 

About role 

As a Quality Engineer specializing in automation, you will take ownership of the automation strategy within one of our product engineering team. You will contribute to the design, implementation, and evolution of advanced automated testing frameworks, driving continuous improvement in test quality and coverage. You will collaborate on a daily basis with other QAs, Senior QAs, SW Engineers and DevOps to constantly set the standard for quality and innovation across the organization.  

Your responsibilities will be: 

• Contribute hands-on in QA initiatives to ensure high-quality deliverables for our end-clients. 

• Identify, report and troubleshoot defects in collaboration with development teams. 

• Work on the design, development, and continuous improvement of scalable test automation frameworks and suites across multiple product lines under L&H solutions. 

• Integrate test automation tools, including build verification systems, IDE plugins, and linting programs, to optimize testing efficiency and reliability. 

• Write and enforce test automation scripts following defined internal coding standards to ensure consistency and maintainability. 

• Collaborate with DevOps and cloud teams to integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines and ensure infrastructure reliability.  

About You 

If you possess traits and experience that match most of the below, we’d love to hear from you: 

Must have excellent technical proficiency in 

• Hands-on experience in test automation, with strong familiarity in CI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices. 

• Proven experience leading the standardization and unification of QA processes, methodologies, and best practices across Agile teams while driving continuous quality improvement. 

• Strong understanding of test automation frameworks and experience designing, developing, maintaining, and executing automated tests across UI, API, integration, and database layers. 

• Hands-on experience with UI test automation using Playwright, Cypress. 

• Ability to perform QA testing across both front-end (user interface) and back-end (services, REST APIs, databases) components of applications, ensuring comprehensive test coverage. 

• Hands-on experience with API testing and automation using frameworks such as REST Assured (Java) and tools such as Postman or Bruno. 

• Strong QA experience with a solid background in Enterprise Java technologies. 

• Strong experience in regression, integration, compatibility, and end-to-end testing. 

• Ability to identify, report, troubleshoot, and validate defects in collaboration with development teams. 

• Good understanding of testing methodologies, including functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, performance, and other non-functional testing approaches. 

• Working knowledge of performance and load testing concepts, with experience or exposure to tools such as K6, JMeter or similar. 

• Experience working with CI/CD platforms such as Azure DevOps 

Nice to have 

• Experience with front-end automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, and Cucumber. 

• Experience with Bruno for API functional testing. 

• Experience with front-end performance testing using Sitespeed. 

• Experience testing cloud-native applications on Azure and Kubernetes (AKS). 

• Experience with Grafana, Azure Monitor, or monitoring platforms. 

• Insurance, reinsurance, or financial services domain experience. 

For Slovakia the base salary range for this position is between [EUR 3,800] and [EUR 6,300] per month (for a full-time role). The specific salary offered considers:​

• the requirements, scope, complexity and responsibilities of the role, ​
• the applicant’s own profile including education/qualifications, expertise, specialisation, skills and experience.​

In addition to your base salary, Swiss Re offers an attractive performance-based variable compensation component, designed to recognise your achievements. Further you will enjoy a variety of global and location specific benefits.​

Eligibility may vary depending on the terms of Swiss Re policies and your employment contract.

About Swiss Re

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 15,000 employees across the world.

Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work and their passion for sustainability.

If you are an experienced professional returning to the workforce after a career break, we encourage you to apply for open positions that match your skills and experience.

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