Senior QA Engineer

Join our dynamic technology team in Admiral Business as a Senior QA Engineer and play a key role in shaping our quality function. You'll be instrumental in designing and executing test strategies, championing quality best practices, and collaborating with development teams to deliver exceptional user experiences.

About Admiral Business

Admiral Business sit within the Admiral Group, and are the experts in business insurance, offering SME insurance for tradespeople, professionals, and couriers. They build products and services that put their customers’ first, combining agility with reliability to deliver innovative products and superior customer experience to the underserved SME market across the UK.

Please note this is a hybrid role, with a requirement to work on site in Cardiff 2 days per week

Main Responsibilities

• Create and standardise QA documentation, test plans, and templates
• Develop, implement, and drive QA strategies aligned with business goals
• Manual testing of new features
• Contributions to Engineering Ways of Working
• Champion Shift-Left testing practices, supporting engineers in testing & testability improvements
• Establish and maintain modern testing frameworks and tools
• Develop, maintain, and optimise automated test suites across multiple applications, ensuring high test coverage
• Advocate for best practices in test automation, CI/CD integration, and modern tooling adoption
• Provide mentorship and guidance to less experienced QAs and engineers
• Identify, communicate, and escalate risks and issues to relevant stakeholders

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years in Quality Assurance Practises within Agile development teams
• 3+ years developing and maintaining automated test suites
• Strong proficiency in modern test frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, PostMan, RestAssured)
• Competency in JavaScript/TypeScript or another OOP language
• Ability to read and understand development cod
•  Experience in performance and security testing domains
• Familiarity with Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• CI/CD Pipelining Experience

Desirable Experience:

• Experience in highly regulated industries (e.g., Insurance, Finance, Healthcare)
• ISTQB Certification or similar
• Exposure to API contract testing (Pact, Postman) and cloud-based test environments
• Experience with AI-driven test automation and chaos engineering tools

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons we’re consistently voted one of the Sunday Times Best Big Companies to Work For in the UK.

All colleagues will receive 33 days holiday (including banks holidays) when they join us, and this will increase with length of service, up to a maximum of 38 days (including banks holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to five days of annual leave in addition to your allocation.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here.

Admiral, Where You Can Be You

At Admiral you’re accepted, supported and empowered to be you. Because you’re brilliant.

We’re proud of our people-centric culture which has led us to being recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re committed to ensuring that at Admiral, progression is not slowed or haltered by barriers related to protected characteristics.

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