Senior Test Analyst - Pricing

Robert Walters • City of London, London, GB • 1w ago

We’re looking for a seasoned Senior Test Analyst to lead testing on a complex insurance pricing platform rollout. This role requires strong test strategy skills, hands-on experience in Lloyd’s/Reinsurance environments, and the ability to manage vendors, risk, and stakeholders in a fast-paced, Agile setting.

Senior Test Analyst – Pricing Tool Implementation

Personal Qualities:

· Confident self-starter with the ability to work independently in defining test strategy, setting direction and driving execution

· Strong stakeholder/vendor management and excellent communication skills.

· Collaborative with developers, business analysts, and product owners across all test disciplines

· Able to balance immediate and urgent priorities against the wider quality assurance approach, and supporting project and business stakeholders in understanding business risk relating to any risk-based compromises in testing.

Core Competencies:

· Testing Strategy & Planning

· Experience defining test strategy, test approaches and test plans for complex pricing applications.

· Ability to set up risk-based testing and coverage models.

· Experience of contributing to the design and implementation of the quality assurance aspects of BAU/operational test framework

· Functional & Non-Functional Testing

· Strong background in functional testing, regression testing and UAT (including business process testing.

· Experience with leading performance testing, load testing, and security testing.

· Experience of supporting new platform implementations through go-live and hypercare.

· Third-Party Vendor Management

· Defining and agreeing qualitative and quantitative metrics as entry/exit criteria.

· Reviewing vendor test deliverables and ensuring quality standards.

· Coordinating test cycles, issue triage and escalations.

· Familiarity with configuration and release management best practice, including framing recommendations to improve stability during parallel testing

· Automation Tools & Frameworks

· JMeter or LoadRunner for performance testing.

· Ability to design and maintain automated test suites.

· Test Management & Reporting

· Experience with Azure DevOps.

· Strong skills in defect tracking, reporting and metrics analysis.

· Experience with SQL.

· Domain Knowledge

· Understanding of insurance pricing models and processes, rating engines and regulatory compliance.

· Familiarity with actuarial concepts and how they translate into system logic.

· Knowledge of change management principles and industry standards.

Must-have Requirements:

· Proven experience of the Lloyd’s environment as applicable to Reinsurers/Insurers

· Proven experience (5+ years) as a Senior Test Analyst

· Proven experience of rapid remediation for quality assurance workstreams in pricing platform implementations (3+)

· Strong test management proficiency in Agile delivery and DevOps practices

· Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic and low maturity environment

· Proven experience of implementing and supporting robust change control, configuration management and release management processes.

· Exposure to Actuarial teams.

Nice-to-have Requirements:

· ISTQB Certified Tester (Advanced) and/or Certified Agile Tester qualifications.

· Experience of working with SaaS models.

· Experience implementing hyperexponential technology.

Robert Walters Operations Limited is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates

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