Introduction
At Gallagher Re, we bring clarity to complexity by helping clients around the world make confident, data-driven decisions in a rapidly evolving risk landscape. Here, you’ll be part of a team that leverages world-class analytics and deep reinsurance expertise to deliver strategic advisory services and transactional excellence. Together, we transform advanced insights and market intelligence into strategies that protect businesses, drive performance, and shape the future of reinsurance. We’re a community of decision makers, future shapers, and trusted experts working side by side to deliver meaningful impact through innovative thinking and practical solutions. At Gallagher Re, your curiosity is welcomed, your growth is championed, and your work truly matters. This is a place where you'll have the freedom to explore new ideas, take ownership of your career, and collaborate with people who are as driven and inquisitive as you are.
Overview
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality software solutions? Do you thrive in fast-paced technology environments and take pride in ensuring systems are robust, reliable, and thoroughly tested? If so, we want to hear from you!
At Gallagher Re, we’re looking for a highly skilled and experienced QA Engineer to join our innovative technology division. In this pivotal role, you’ll be a key player in our QA team and wider delivery function, helping us deliver cutting-edge insurance products and systems that meet the highest standards of quality and performance.
This will be a remote/homebased role so you can be based anywhere in tthe UK. Our only requirements are for you to be flexible to travel to our offices when required and to attend our team touchdown days which happen in our London Headquaters once a quarter.
How you'll make an impact
As a QA Engineer, you’ll be at the forefront of ensuring our systems and products are built to perform. Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and executing comprehensive test plans, strategies, and test cases to ensure the quality and reliability of our insurance products and systems.
- Designing, developing, and maintaining automated test scripts using industry-leading testing tools and frameworks like Selenium.
- Conducting thorough functional, regression, integration, and performance testing to identify and address potential issues.
- Identifying, documenting, and tracking software defects, and collaborating closely with development teams to resolve them.
- Analysing test results and providing detailed reports on software quality and test execution.
- Collaborating with development, product management, and other teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Assisting in the creation and ongoing review of KPIs, SLAs, and OKRs related to QA activities within your team.
- Staying ahead of the curve by keeping up-to-date with industry best practices and emerging QA technologies.
About You
We’re seeking a QA Engineer who brings a strong technical background, a passion for quality, and a collaborative mindset. Here’s what we’re looking for:
- Proven experience in QA engineering within a .NET + Azure-based development environment.
- Hands-on experience with automation testing tools such as Selenium.
- A track record of contributing to and enhancing QA strategies, with the ability to support the team in adhering to best practices.
- Experience mentoring and upskilling junior team members, fostering a culture of growth and learning.
- A collaborative approach, with experience working closely with developers as part of a single delivery team.
- Strong understanding of the Azure platform and the testing and monitoring technologies it supports.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (ideally Azure DevOps) and a solid understanding of related methodologies.
- Knowledge of common security vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies across web, mobile, and data applications.
- Proficiency in: Design patterns, Git version control, Agile development methodologies, particularly Scrum.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
- Experience working with both offshore and onshore development teams.
- A background in navigating complex product domains.
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with TAGlobalSupport@ajg.com . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
