Specialist, Testing — Insurance / Pricing Systems

Tarkine Consulting Group; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarkine Consulting is seeking a Specialist, Testing (QA/Tester) to join a live insurance product team in Australia. The role blends manual testing with automation work, using a Python-based framework (Behave, Playwright) and supporting API/UI tests.

You will design test cases, validate pricing rules, and contribute to defect management in Jira/Xray/Confluence within an Agile environment. Hybrid work, Melbourne or Sydney-based; contract role with a minimum 6 months, ASAP start.

Qualifications

• Insurance systems exposure, pricing or premium/rating experience is preferred.
• Strong ability to craft and execute manual test cases from requirements and user stories.
• Defect logging and reporting using Jira with Xray and Confluence.
• Hands-on experience with a Python-based automation framework for API and UI.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute manual test cases across feature, integration, regression and end-to-end testing.
• Test pricing rules, premiums, and configuration changes for accuracy across scenarios.
• Run and debug existing automated tests; extend the Python-based framework.
• Maintain and expand automated test coverage; estimate test timeframes and test data needs.
• Raise and manage defects in Jira; report via Xray and Confluence.
• Collaborate to improve testing practices in an Agile environment.

Skills

Manual testing

Automation testing

API testing

Python

Behave

Playwright

Jira

Xray

Confluence

Agile

Postman

Bruno

CI/CD

UI testing

XML/JSON

Tools

Postman

Bruno

Bitbucket

GitHub

Jira

Job description

Tarkine Consulting is supporting a major Australian insurer on their Consumer Lines Pricing (CLP) platform, looking to engage a Specialist, Testing (QA/Tester) to join an established quality team focused on pricing rules, premiums, and configuration accuracy across a live insurance product.

This is a hands‑on role split roughly evenly between manual and automation testing. You'll carry a genuine manual testing workload — designing and executing test cases, managing defects, supporting releases — alongside running, debugging and extending the team's existing Python‑based automation coverage. This isn't a framework‑building or architecture role; it suits someone who's comfortable contributing to what's already there rather than designing it from scratch.

The role

• Manual test case design and execution across feature, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end testing
• Testing pricing rules, premiums, and configuration changes for accuracy across scenarios
• Running and debugging existing automated test cases (backend API and frontend UI), and adding additional test cases to the existing Python‑based framework (Behave, Playwright)
• Performing maintenance on existing automated test cases
• Estimating test timeframes and communicating test data / environment requirements
• Raising and managing defects in Jira, with reporting via Xray and Confluence
• Contributing to the team's testing practices and knowledge sharing across the wider testing capability

What We're Looking For

• Genuine domain exposure to insurance systems, ideally pricing or premium/rating systems — this is a mandatory requirement for this engagement, not just a preference
• Strong experience writing and executing manual test cases from requirements and user stories — this is roughly half the role
• Proficient with Jira, Xray, and Confluence for defect logging, tracking, and reporting
• Some hands‑on exposure to backend API testing using Postman or Bruno
• Comfortable running and contributing to an existing Python‑based automation framework across API and UI — not expected to design or build a framework from the ground up
• Comfortable working in an Agile environment, collaborating on requirements delivered as user stories
• Good understanding of web technologies — UI concepts, APIs, XML, and JSON
• Desirable: familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, GitHub)

Engagement

• Contract role, minimum 6 months, ASAP start required
• Hybrid working, Sydney or Melbourne based — genuinely flexible on location
• Fast‑moving process — candidates who can start straight away will be prioritised

If you've got hands‑on insurance or pricing‑systems testing experience, a solid manual testing background, and enough automation exposure to run and extend an existing framework, we'd like to hear from you.