Software QA Automation Engineer

About the role

Verisk is looking for a QA Automation Engineer experienced in the software development lifecycle who can perform both automated and manual testing, analyze issues, design and implement test solutions, develop test strategies and work with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, reliable software.

Key responsibilities

• Review and analyze business requirements and acceptance criteria to ensure complete test coverage.
• Collaborate with Product Owners, Developers and Business Analysts to clarify requirements and resolve inconsistencies early in sprints.
• Design, develop and execute manual and automated test cases, test plans and test scripts, covering functional, regression, integration and API testing with tools such as Selenium, Playwright and Postman.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and coordinate testing activities.
• Identify, report and track defects, validate fixes with developers, and write clean, high-quality test scripts.
• Conduct exploratory and guided testing to find edge cases and usability issues.
• Optimize test processes, frameworks and coverage, provide QA sign-offs for releases and document test results and processes.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent.
• 2.5+ years of professional experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to work independently with minimal guidance.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical and communication skills.

Required skills

• Hands-on experience with software testing and test automation of highly scalable applications.
• Programming/scripting in Java, C# or .NET.
• Web/UI automation with Selenium WebDriver or Playwright using C# or Java.
• SQL/PostgreSQL and relational database concepts for backend testing and data validation.
• Knowledge of QA methodologies, tools and processes; BDD with Reqnroll or Specflow is an added advantage.