QA & Automation Tester for Insurance Pricing (Hybrid)

Tarkine Consulting Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 95,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

IAG is seeking a Specialist, Testing (QA/Tester) to join the Pricing Systems team in Sydney or Melbourne on a 6-month contract, hybrid setup. The role balances manual testing with automation work, focusing on validating pricing rules and configurations while expanding automation coverage.

You will work with backend APIs and frontend UI, contributing to test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, in an Agile environment with strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on domain exposure to insurance systems, ideally pricing, rating, or premium systems.
• Proficient with Jira, Xray, and Confluence for defect logging and reporting.
• Strong experience writing and executing manual test cases from requirements and user stories.
• Hands-on API testing with Postman or Bruno.
• Solid experience in test automation across API and UI layers.
• Contributes to and maintains Python-based automation frameworks (e.g., Behave, Playwright) for API and UI tests.
• Ability to leverage AI tools to enhance testing efficiency and automation development.
• Comfortable in an Agile environment with user-story delivery.

Responsibilities

• Automation testing for backend APIs and frontend UI.
• Testing pricing rules, premiums, and configuration changes.
• Developing and enhancing test automation frameworks.
• Learning existing automation frameworks and contributing new test cases.
• Running and maintaining automated test suites and CI/CD pipelines.
• Performing manual testing and creating/updating manual test cases.
• Estimating testing timeframes and communicating data/environment needs.
• Executing tests across feature, integration, regression, and end-to-end scopes.
• Raising issues in Jira and collaborating across teams.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

API testing

UI testing

Python-based automation

BDD frameworks

Behave/Playwright

Postman

Jira

Xray

Confluence

CI/CD

Agile

Tools

Postman

Bruno

Jira

Xray

Confluence

Playwright

Job description

IAG is seeking a Specialist, Testing (QA/Tester) to join the Pricing Systems team in Sydney or Melbourne on a 6-month contract, hybrid setup. The role balances manual testing with automation work, focusing on validating pricing rules and configurations while expanding automation coverage.

You will work with backend APIs and frontend UI, contributing to test frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, in an Agile environment with strong collaboration across teams.