Quality Engineer

Brown & Brown Insurance; Borehamwood; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday

Company pension

Professional qualifications funding

Job summary

Brown & Brown Insurance is seeking a Quality Engineer to join our hybrid London squads. You will shape testing strategies, drive innovation, and embed quality across the full software lifecycle to deliver reliable platforms.

You'll lead quality initiatives, collaborate with product owners and tech leads, and mentor engineers while advocating ownership and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Extensive QA experience including software development.
• QA leadership experience in agile environments.
• Experience with cross-functional delivery teams, XP is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of evolutionary architecture and fitness functions.
• Experience with AI tooling to improve speed and quality in delivery.
• Cloud certification is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead execution of comprehensive test strategies across your squad(s).
• Introduce and champion modern testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Define and monitor key quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and MTTR.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align quality goals with business objectives.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead exploratory, automation, performance, and security testing initiatives.
• Promote agile and lean principles to enhance delivery and adaptability.
• Provide clear and transparent communication on quality status and improvement plans.
• Drive continuous improvement through data insights and actionable changes.
• Support cross-functional testing including accessibility, usability, and availability.
• Ensure strong CI/CD practices and evolve testing approaches across architectural environments.
• -Establish dashboards and reporting to visualise quality trends and performance.

Skills

QA leadership

Agile delivery

Cross-functional teams

Evolutionary architecture

Fitness functions

AI tooling

Cloud certification

Job description

Built on meritocracy, our unique company culture rewards self-starters and those who are committed to doing what is best for our customers.

Quality Engineer

Location:Hybrid - London

Package:Negotiable + Benefits

At Brown & Brown (Europe), qualityisn’tjust acheckpoint,it’sa mindset. As a Quality Engineer, you’llplay a key role within our cross-functional delivery squads, championing quality across the full software lifecycle. You’llhelp shape testing strategies, drive innovation, and support others in embedding quality into everything we build. Ifyou’repassionate about agile delivery, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement, this is an opportunity to make a real and lasting impact.

The day to day:

You’lltake ownership of quality engineering within your squad(s), working closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure our platforms are scalable, reliable, and built with quality at their core.

You’ll define and execute testing strategies, introduce modern tools and practices, and promote a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and lead execution of comprehensive test strategies across your squad(s).
• Introduce and champion modern testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Define andmonitorkey quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and mean time torecovery.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align quality goals with businessobjectives.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead exploratory, automation, performance, and security testing initiatives.
• Promote agile and lean principles to enhance delivery and adaptability.
• Provide clear and transparent communication on quality status and improvement plans.
• Drive continuous improvement through data insights and actionable changes.
• Support cross-functional testing including accessibility, usability, and availability.
• Ensure strong CI/CD practices and evolve testing approaches across architectural environments.
• -Establishdashboards and reporting tovisualisequality trends and performance.

About you:

You are a proactive and quality-focused individual who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment. You take ownership of your work, enjoy solving problems, and are always looking for ways to improve how things are done. You bring a strong customer focus and are passionate about delivering high-quality software that meets user needs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in quality assurance, including software development.
• Experience of QA leadership experience within agile environments.
• Experience working within cross-functional delivery teams, ideally using Extreme Programming practices.
• Strong understanding of evolutionary architecture and fitness functions.
• Experience with AI tooling and its application to improve speed and quality in delivery isadvantageous.
• Cloud certification is beneficial.

The rewards:

• A negotiable basic salary and all the normal benefits you’d expect (Holiday, company pension etc.)
• A collaborative, open and honest environment that is designed to deliver the best outcomes to our clients and staff
• An environment built around supporting and developing our staff with funding available for relevant professional qualifications.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.