Responsibilities
- Own risk-based QA planning, test design, functional testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, defect analysis, and test coverage reporting across the SDLC.
- Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, engineers, and stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify gaps and edge cases, and define testable acceptance criteria.
- Develop knowledge of business processes, data flows, system dependencies, application logic, interfaces, and database behavior to validate business outcomes.
- Create and maintain automated tests with the automation QA specialist, including UI, REST API, and regression test coverage.
- Investigate complex defects and trace root causes across application logic, interfaces, and underlying data.
- Use SQL and data investigation techniques to validate database changes, data consistency, transformations, and business rules.
- Use Azure DevOps and CI/CD processes to communicate results, manage defects, and support release decisions.
- Improve QA practices and share knowledge to prevent defects earlier and strengthen solution quality.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional QA experience testing complex, business-critical enterprise applications with functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
- Ability to read, write, and review automated tests in Java or a similar programming language, including use of AI-assisted tools such as GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT.
- Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks for UI automation, REST API testing, and CI/CD pipeline integration.
- Experience collaborating with analysts and stakeholders on business requirements and acceptance criteria and improving testability.
- Practical SQL skills for querying, comparing, validating, and reconciling data across systems, including data transformations and business rules.
- Preferred experience with Oracle databases, advanced SQL, data reconciliation, database procedures, or database transformations.
- Preferred experience with Azure DevOps for test management, defect tracking, and release coordination.
- Knowledge of insurance or reinsurance, especially pricing, financial calculations, or reporting processes, is preferred.
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and ownership skills are preferred.
Benefits
- Base salary is EUR 3,800–6,300 per month for a full-time position in Slovakia.
- Performance-based variable compensation and global and location-specific benefits are offered.
- The role is hybrid, as indicated by the #LI-Hybrid designation.
About Swiss Re
The Swiss Re Group is a leading wholesale provider of reinsurance, insurance and other insurance-based forms of risk transfer. Dealing direct and working through brokers, its global client base consists of insurance companies, mid-to-large-sized corporations and public sector clients. From standard products to tailor-made coverage across all lines of business, Swiss Re deploys its capital strength, expertise and innovation power to enable the risk taking upon which enterprise and progress in society depend. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves clients through a network of over 70 offices globally and is rated "AA-" by Standard & Poor's, "Aa3" by Moody's and "A+" by A.M. Best. Registered shares in the Swiss Re Group holding company, Swiss Re Ltd, are listed in accordance with the Main Standard on the SIX Swiss Exchange and trade under the symbol SREN. We're smarter together. For more information about Swiss Re Group, please visit: www.swissre.com, follow us on X @SwissRe and subscribe our YouTube channel @swissretv.