Lead QA Engineer

Summary

Andersen is hiring a Lead QA Engineer for a project with a global insurance provider in Germany. The role focuses on testing system integrations to ensure smooth data exchange and reliable communication across platforms.

Our customer is a world leader in insurance and B2B2C support, which offers global solutions that span international health and life insurance, travel insurance, cars, and their service. The company is dedicated to delivering world-class, agile, and sustainable IT solutions, driving full-spectrum digitalization.

The project is focused on developing and maintaining integrations with external and internal systems. It aims to ensure seamless data exchange, system interoperability, and reliable communication across various components of the organization’s technology landscape.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring backend systems reliability and performance through rigorous API testing, including both functional and non-functional aspects.
• Owning and driving the end-to-end user experience quality across web and backend platforms.
• Creating, maintaining and executing comprehensive test plans and test cases across multiple browsers and platforms.
• Actively supporting software development and IT teams by thoroughly testing new features and providing actionable feedback.
• Collaborating in the design of test strategies, including detailed API and integration testing approaches.
• Analyzing and troubleshooting problems, document findings and working with relevant teams to ensure timely resolutions.
• Providing ongoing suggestions for software quality improvements and test process optimization API.

Requirements

• Proven experience in software testing roles for 3+ years.
• Strong expertise in API testing, ability to create API requests, review and suggest improvements to API documentation and design comprehensive test scenarios that cover functional, non-functional, performance and reliability aspects.
• Solid experience designing and executing test strategies for APIs, integrations and database level validations.
• Experience with integration testing across complex systems.
• Hands-on testing experience with modern web applications and eCommerce platforms built using frameworks like React, PHP, Go and similar technologies.
• Strong understanding of backend systems, databases, SQL and system architecture fundamentals.
• Ability to perform test planning, design and execution for both frontend UI and backend services.
• Solid understanding of enterprise integration patterns and workflows.
• Experience working closely with multiple stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Level of English – from Intermediate+ and above.

Desired skills

• Experience in QA automation.
• Familiarity with API automation testing/scripting.

Reasons to join us

• Experience in teamwork with leaders in FinTech, Healthcare, Retail, Telecom, and others. Andersen cooperates with such businesses as Samsung, Siemens, Johnson & Johnson, BNP Paribas, Ryanair, Mercedes, TUI, Verivox, Allianz, T-Systems, etc..
• The opportunity to change the project and/or develop expertise in an interesting business domain.
• Job conditions – you can work both fully remotely and from the office or can choose a hybrid variant.
• Guarantee of professional, financial, and career growth! The company has introduced systems of mentoring and adaptation for each new employee.
• The opportunity to earn up to an additional 1,000 USD per month, depending on the level of expertise, which will be included in the annual bonus, by participating in the company's activities.
• Access to the corporate training portal, where the entire knowledge base of the company is collected and which is constantly updated.
• Bright corporate life (parties / pizza days / PlayStation / fruits / coffee / snacks / movies).
• Certification compensation (AWS, PMP, etc).
• Referral program.
• English courses.
• Private health insurance and compensation for sports activities.

Join us!