Specialist, Testing (QA / Tester) - Insurance / Pricing Systems

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.