QA Engineer

QA Engineer

About

SwingDev, the Polish branch of the fast-growing InsurTech product company Hippo Insurance, is dedicated to making home insurance smarter and more proactive using technology. We create digital products that support our customers, focusing on impact. We value tech experience, attitude, human approach, and culture fit. "SwingDev is all about people" – we believe in inspiration over competition, with a culture of trust, empathy, and positivity.

As a QA Engineer, you will join the Partner Programs & Portfolio Management project, the engine behind Hippo's insurance carrier platform, supporting both PAPR (Partner Program data pipelines) and Risk Modeling charters. You will partner with a Senior QA Engineer and Sr. SDET. Our team ensures the reliability and scalability of the system that MGA partners, underwriters, reinsurance, and finance teams depend on. You will ensure new features and platform changes are properly tested before going live, working closely with Engineers, Data Analysts, and Product Managers.

Responsibilities

• Deeply collaborate with Engineering teams, actively participating in the development of new features and initiatives from initial requirement analysis and test planning to execution, regression testing, and final release sign-off.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, taking responsibility for prioritizing testing efforts, clarifying requirements, challenging assumptions from a quality perspective, coordinating Business Acceptance Testing, and advocating for customer needs.
• Work closely with SDETs to expand and maintain automated test coverage for new features and regression testing. Collaborate with other manual QA engineers on cross-team and cross-BU projects.
• Proactively identify and mitigate potential risks, ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and reliability.

Requirements

• 3+ years of QA experience, with a focus on manual testing (Black Box, White Box, and Grey Box).
• Good knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes.
• Good understanding of testing integration, functional, and end-to-end scenarios.
• Good understanding of microservices architecture and API testing using tools like Postman.
• Experience with SQL (select, join, groups, limits, aliases, etc.).
• Experience with test case design, execution, and reporting for complex systems (front-end and back-end).
• Ability to create test cases and collections that exercise requirements and business rules in collaboration with PMs.
• Experience with test case management tools (preferably XRay).
• Good analytical skills and attention to detail.
• Independent problem solver and a collaborative team player.
• Great command of English (written & spoken) and at least basic Polish.
• Availability for occasional evening meetings to ensure smooth communication across time zones.

Extra points for:

• Experience working in a product company, ideally a startup/scale-up.
• Experience with Google BigQuery.
• ISTQB foundation level certificate.