Senior Test Analyst in Leicester

**Location:** Bexhill/Leicester - Hybrid

We’re a digital insurance provider with ambitious plans to become The Best and Biggest in the UK market. We’ve made huge investments in our data and tech capabilities over the past few years, along with nurturing our 4Cs culture.

**Role Overview**

You will join the organisation as an experienced, cross‐functional professional, operating within a transforming delivery environment that spans both Waterfall and Agile methodologies. In this role, you will lead, coordinate, plan, and execute testing activities across key insurance‐based projects, taking ownership of the QA function within your assigned product workstream.

**What you’ll be doing:**

• Lead and manage testing activities across multiple projects within an Agile delivery environment, ensuring milestones and deadlines are met.
• Coordinate and perform manual and automation testing for product releases, remaining hands‐on while overseeing wider QA activity.
• Own end‐to‐end test planning and delivery, including estimation, scheduling, execution, monitoring, and reporting on test progress and product quality.
• Act as the testing lead for insurance pricing solutions, including work with pricing engines (e.g. Polaris, Earnix, Radar, or bespoke platforms) and structured data (XML, SQL, relational databases).
• Manage and collaborate with a testing team and wider delivery stakeholders, working across the full SDLC from requirements through to post‐live validation.
• Ensure appropriate test environments, configuration management, governance artefacts, and traceability are in place using tools such as Azure Boards, GitHub, SharePoint, and Archer.
• Diagnose, track, and resolve defects and live incidents, working closely with development, release management, and product teams to support controlled releases to production.
• Drive continuous improvement and consistency across testing methods, tools, and processes in line with the Testing Centre of Excellence (CoE), while supporting multiple product streams within a programme.

**What skills you’ll need:**

• Strong ability to analyse and understand business requirements, translating them into effective test plans, test scripts, and execution strategies.
• Proven experience in test planning, resource planning, estimation, and execution, including peer review of test artefacts to ensure quality and consistency.
• Hands‐on experience with test execution, defect analysis, and root‐cause identification, including reviewing unit test outcomes and validating fixes.
• Solid working knowledge of SQL and Snowflake databases, with practical exposure to Python beneficial for data analysis, scripting, or automation support.
• Experienced in test management and delivery tooling, including day‐to‐day use of Azure Boards and the ability to navigate, review, and manage GitHub tickets and repositories.
• Ability to maintain and enhance regression and automation test packs, while acting as a technical SME for QA, collaborating with testers, business analysts, developers, and acting as the QA face‐off to product teams.

**The interview process:**

• Screening call
• Technical interview

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our recruitment processes are fully inclusive. For this position, we’re regrettably unable to accept applications through the DCS due to the extremely high volumes of applications we receive. However, you’ll of course have fair access to support and adjustments throughout your recruitment journey.

**Benefits:**

• Flexible working – we champion a flexible hybrid working approach.
• Competitive bonus scheme - all colleagues are eligible for our annual 4Cs performance bonus.
• Financial wellbeing – providing you with 4x your salary with our life assurance cover, income protection at no extra cost, and matched pension contributions up to 10%.
• Mental wellbeing programme – we have the thrive mental health app, our colleague assistance programme available 24/7, and support groups.
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell one of your weeks.

Hastings Group is an equal opportunities employer which means we treat people fairly. We welcome applications from all suitably skilled persons regardless of their gender, age, race, disability, ethnic background, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment or marital/family status.