Job Description
The Role:
This role is a hands-on contract testing engagement, focused on delivering high quality assurance across IT systems and processes. It is outcome driven, supporting the stability of business-critical platforms, regulatory compliance, and a positive end user experience. The contractor will work embedded within Agile delivery teams to provide timely, pragmatic testing that enables confident release decisions.
Responsibilities will include:
- Produce and execute test plans aligned to delivery milestones and business outcomes
- Design, review, and maintain test scripts to support functional, integration, regression, and end to end testing
- Execute testing cycles efficiently, logging, tracking, and re-testing defects to resolution
- Provide clear, concise test status reporting, risks, and quality insights to delivery teams and stakeholders
- Support User Acceptance Testing (UAT), acting as a representative end user to validate real world scenarios and support go live decisions
- Collaborate closely with Developers, Business Analysts, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements and assess impact
- Contribute to Agile delivery ceremonies, working within Scrum and Kanban frameworks
Skills and Experience
- Outcome focused and delivery-oriented mindset
- Strong collaborator with the ability to build effective working relationships quickly
- Comfortable operating in changing environments and adapting to shifting priorities
- Confident in providing independent, objective quality assessments to support decision making
- A strong collaborator; excellent relationship building and communication skills with the ability to engage people from diverse cultures and different levels.
- Able to work on own initiative whilst understanding the journey.
- Able to adapt and respond to changing corporate objectives as opportunities open up
- Ability to articulate Testing and Quality issues in a clear and concise manner to non-tech people
- Preferable experience with Azure DevOps, Postman, SQL Server Management Studio
About Us
Our benefits
We offer all employees a comprehensive benefits package that focuses on their whole wellbeing. This includes hybrid working, a competitive base salary, non-contributory pension, discretionary bonus, insurances including health (family) and dental cover, and many other benefits to enhance financial, physical, social and psychological health.
About Canopius
Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer. We are one of the leading insurers in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia and Bermuda.
At Canopius we foster a distinctive, positive culture which enables us to bring our whole selves to work to flourish as people, and build a business which delivers profitable, sustainable results.
Based in incredible new offices in the heart of the City of London, Canopius operates a flexible, hybrid working model and is committed to providing an environment that challenges employees to be their best and where everyone's unique contributions are recognised, valued and respected.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities for all applicants and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions are made regardless of age, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, religion or beliefs, marital or caring status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We encourage and welcome applicants from all diverse backgrounds.
We make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Please let us know if you require any information in an alternate format or any other reasonable adjustments.
