Senior Manual QA Analyst – Insurance & Financial Services (100% Remote)
Support the delivery of high-quality business applications in the insurance sector through comprehensive manual testing. Work remotely from Ontario in a collaborative Agile environment, validating complex business rules, pricing calculations, integrations, and enterprise systems to help ensure reliable software releases.
What is in it for you:
- Salaried: $50-56 per hour.
- Incorporated Business Rate: $60-66 per hour.
- 4-month contract.
- Day schedule, 37.50 hours per week.
- Enjoy the flexibility of remote work.
Responsibilities:
- Review business requirements, user stories, and functional specifications.
- Create and execute detailed manual test cases and test scenarios.
- Validate complex pricing calculations and business rule execution.
- Perform functional, integration, system, regression, and support user acceptance testing.
- Conduct end-to-end testing across multiple integrated applications.
- Verify data consistency between application interfaces, reports, APIs, and batch outputs.
- Track, document, and manage defects through resolution.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and defect triage discussions.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Developers, Product Owners, QA team members, and other project stakeholders to ensure quality standards are met before release.
- Support production validation and post-deployment testing activities as required.
What you will need to succeed:
- 10+ years of experience in manual quality assurance and software testing.
- Strong experience creating and executing detailed test cases, test plans, and test scenarios.
- Experience validating complex business processes, calculations, and rule-based systems.
- Proven ability to perform end-to-end testing across multiple integrated applications.
- Strong defect management experience, including defect reporting, tracking, support for root-cause analysis, and validation.
- Experience testing financial services, insurance, wealth management, or pricing systems is considered an asset.
- Strong SQL and data validation skills are considered an asset.
- Experience validating batch processes, file-based integrations, CSV outputs, and reports is considered an asset.
- Exposure to API testing using tools such as Postman for functional validation is considered an asset.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum delivery methodologies and tools such as JIRA, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms is considered an asset.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Detail-oriented with a strong focus on quality and accuracy.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams.
- Experience supporting business-critical enterprise applications.
- Comfortable working with distributed teams in an Agile environment.
Why Recruit Action?
Recruit Action (agency permit: AP-2504511) provides recruitment services through quality support and a personalized approach. As part of the screening process, some applications may be reviewed using artificial intelligence tools. Only candidates who meet the hiring criteria will be contacted.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 4 months
Pay: $50.00-$66.00 per hour
Benefits:
Experience:
- Manual Quality Assurance (QA) and software testing: 10 years (required)
- Creating detailed test cases, test plans, and test scenarios: 5 years (required)
- Validating business processes, calculations, business rules: 1 year (required)
- Performing end-to-end testing: 3 years (required)
- Defect management (reporting, tracking, validation): 3 years (required)
- Testing financial, insurance, or pricing systems: 1 year (preferred)
- SQL and data validation: 1 year (preferred)
- Validating batch processes and file integrations: 1 year (preferred)
- Validating CSV outputs and reports: 1 year (preferred)
- API testing (Postman): 1 year (preferred)
- Agile/Scrum, Jira, or Azure DevOps: 1 year (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
