QA Engineer

Artificial Labs; Greater London; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Income protection insurance

Life insurance

On-site gym

Enhanced maternity/paternity pay

Team social events

Pension and nursery fees

Stock options

Birthday bonus

28 days holiday + holidays

Home office equipment allowance

MacBook

Learning allowance

YuLife benefits

Ecologi tree planting

Coffee machine London

Job summary

Artificial is hiring a QA Engineer to own testing across our product portfolio, covering both manual and automation work. You will move between Platform and Transform configurations, building robust test coverage and contributing to automation using Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.

You’ll collaborate closely with product, engineering, and FDE teams to ensure quality across releases. The role emphasizes test planning, edge-case discovery, and effective bug reproduction.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of experience in a QA or software testing role.
• Solid hands-on experience with at least one test automation framework (Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium).
• Proven ability to write clear, structured test plans and test cases from requirements and specifications.

Responsibilities

• Manual and automated testing execution across platform and transform workstreams.
• Test planning and design based on product requirements and acceptance criteria.
• Customer specification testing to validate platform behaviour.
• Automation contribution within established framework and standards.
• Bug identification and reporting with clear reproduction steps.
• Regression testing ahead of releases to ensure quality.
• Quality across Discovery, Delivery, and Optimisation phases.
• Collaboration with Product Managers, Engineers, and Solutions/FDEs.

Skills

QA testing

Automation

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Test planning

Jira/Linear

Multiplatform testing

Tools

Linear

Jira

Job description

About Artificial

Help shape the future of specialty insurance

At Artificial, we’re building the next generation of technology for the specialty (re)insurance market. Our mission is to transform how brokers and carriers operate in complex markets by removing operational barriers and enabling smarter, faster decision-making.

We use modern technology to solve real challenges for some of the world’s leading brokers and insurers. By automating the repetitive and structuring the complex, we help our partners unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. We work in an environment where ideas are heard, support is built-in, and outcomes matter. Everyone here has the chance to make a tangible impact on our products, our customers, and the industry.

We’ve just raised $45M (£33M) in Series B funding from lead investor CommerzVentures, new investor Move Capital, as well as all existing shareholders. This investment round gives us the room to grow with confidence, continue to innovate, and ensure that Artificial remains the first choice for brokers and carriers seeking a smarter way to trade digitally.

Join us, and take the chance to be a part of something that will change the landscape of insurance for generations.

About the Role

We are looking for a QA Engineer to join our growing Product QA function and take ownership of testing across Artificial's product portfolio and customer specifications. This role covers both manual testing execution and hands-on automation work, moving flexibly between Platform and Transform (customer configuration) work as needed.

Key Responsibilities

• Manual and automated testing execution: Own and execute both manual and automated test cases across Artificial's product suite and customer specifications - moving flexibly between Platform and Transform as priorities shift, and applying automation where it's the right fit and manual judgement where it isn't - including functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing, ensuring thorough coverage before releases reach production

• Test planning and design: Write clear, detailed test plans and test cases based on product requirements, acceptance criteria, and specification documents; identify edge cases and risk areas; ensure traceability between requirements and test coverage; maintain this as a growing knowledge base of product behaviour and testing approaches

• Customer specification testing: Test new and updated customer configurations and specifications to validate they meet requirements and behave correctly within the platform - reducing reliance on FDE for quality verification

• Automation contribution: Write and maintain automated tests within our established framework and standards, applying your existing automation experience rather than starting from scratch; help transition high-value manual test cases into automated coverage

• Bug identification and reporting: Identify, document, and triage defects with clear reproduction steps, severity assessments, and supporting evidence in Linear; follow up with engineering teams to verify fixes and close the loop

• Regression testing: Execute regression test suites ahead of releases to catch unintended side effects; help maintain and expand the regression library as the product evolves

• Quality within DDO+ modes: Support QA touch points across Discovery (smoke-testing prototypes and early builds), Delivery (thorough testing of bets and features during development cycles), and Optimisation (validating bug fixes and investigating production issues)

• Collaboration: Work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and Solutions/FDEs to understand requirements, clarify expected behaviour, and ensure alignment on quality expectations for each release or specification

About You

• 2-5 years of experience in a QA or software testing role, with a strong foundation in manual testing techniques

• Solid hands-on experience with at least one test automation framework (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium) - comfortable both executing manual tests and maintaining automated ones

• Proven ability to write clear, structured test plans and test cases from requirements and specifications

• Experience with systematic testing approaches - functional, regression, integration, exploratory - and the judgement to know when each is appropriate

• Excellent bug reporting skills - you write reproduction steps that engineers can act on immediately

• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (e.g. Linear, Jira, or equivalent)

• A methodical, detail-oriented approach with strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Comfortable working across multiple product areas and workstreams simultaneously

Benefits

• Private medical insurance

• Income protection insurance

• Life insurance of 4 * base salary

• On-site gym and shower facilities

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Team social events and company parties

• Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees

• Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform

• Company stock options managed through Ledgy

• Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy

• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays

• Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook

• Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams

• YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines

• For each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi Action

• The best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!

We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities around us.

If there’s anything you need to make the hiring process more accessible, just let us know—we’re happy to make adjustments.

You’re also welcome to share your preferred pronouns with us at any point.

Think you don’t meet every requirement? Please apply anyway. We value potential as much as experience, and we know that raw talent counts.

As part of our hiring process, we’ll carry out some background checks. These may include a criminal record check, reviewing your credit history, speaking with previous employers and confirming your academic qualifications.