Your new company
You will be joining a leading global specialist insurer with roots tracing back to the early twentieth century and a reputation built on expertise, integrity, and a bold approach to complex risk. The company operates across more than a dozen countries with a workforce of over 3,000 professionals and is listed on a major international stock exchange. With a strong focus on technology-driven transformation and a genuinely inclusive culture, this organisation is actively expanding its engineering capabilities from its Lisbon hub, offering the chance to work within truly international, cross-functional teams solving meaningful business challenges in one of the most dynamic sectors in financial services.
Your new role
As a QA Engineer, you will be embedded within a cross-functional Scrum team, playing a central role in upholding and championing quality across a broad portfolio of technology platforms. Working hand-in-hand with software engineers and product owners, you will be responsible for translating business requirements into thorough, reliable test coverage — from web applications and APIs through to data platforms. This is a role for someone who takes genuine ownership of quality, actively participates in the full delivery lifecycle, and is eager to grow their automation capabilities over time.
What you'll be doing
- Designing, executing and documenting functional test cases, with thorough bug reporting and resolution tracking
- Actively participating in Agile ceremonies across planning, development and release phases to ensure timely, high-quality delivery
- Reviewing and analysing requirements for new features, integrations and projects to identify appropriate testing approaches
- Collaborating with developers, business stakeholders and fellow QA professionals to refine strategies and share test outcomes
- Becoming the go-to subject matter expert for end-to-end application behaviour within your squad
- Maintaining accurate and up-to-date test documentation to support continuous delivery cycles
- Supporting Automation Engineers and SDETs in the development of test automation scripts
- Sharing best practices across the wider QA chapter and contributing to a quality-first engineering culture
- Working collaboratively with colleagues based across the UK, Portugal, Poland and India
What you'll need to succeed
- Demonstrated experience in manual testing, encompassing test case design, execution and defect identification
- Strong grounding in Quality Engineering principles and testing methodologies, including BDD, unit testing and data-driven approaches
- Experience producing test artefacts such as Test Plans, Test Strategies and Test Metrics
- Proficiency with test management and reporting tools such as Jira or Azure Test Plans
- Solid analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, methodical mindset
- Genuine Agile working experience
- A proactive attitude towards building technical skills, with ambition to grow towards Automation Engineering
- Excellent communication skills and strong team orientation
- Fluency in English
Nice to have
- Experience writing tests in BDD format
- API testing exposure using Postman or equivalent tools
- SQL knowledge for backend database test development
- Familiarity with any test automation framework or programming language
- Exposure to CI/CD pipelines
What you'll get in return
This is a genuine opportunity to shape how quality is embedded across a sophisticated technology landscape within a business that takes engineering seriously. You will work in a hybrid model with a healthy work-life balance (up to 2 days in the office per fortnight), alongside talented colleagues across multiple international locations. In return you can expect:
- Involvement in high-impact, technically challenging projects
- A collaborative and inclusive working environment
- Continuous learning and professional development opportunities
- Clear career progression pathways within a growing engineering organisation
- A hybrid work model built around flexibility and autonomy
What you need to do now
Does this sound up your street? Click apply now to send us your CV, or to discuss the role further get in touch with our Digital Technology team on +351 21 782 6560 or via email at andre.rodrigues@hays.pt
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