Senior QA Engineer - Python

The Company  

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

The Role

A QA Engineer in the Core Services Problem Space within the Technology Department at Cover Genius is the foremost advocate of a quality culture and the primary driver of robust, scalable QA automation practices.  In this Senior role, you will set the QA strategy for Core Services, own automation architecture decisions, and mentor other QA/engineers to raise quality standards across squads.

Primary responsibility is to promote an environment where employees follow quality guidelines, consistently see others taking quality-focused actions, hear others talking about quality, and feel quality all around them.

You will proactively evaluate, pilot, and standardise AI tools, assistants, agent frameworks, and code-generation tools — that improve test depth, speed, and reliability — to strengthen the delivery of our flagship XCore API platform, which powers embedded digital insurance products via API.

You will partner with Engineering Leadership and Product to define measurable quality KPIs (e.g., defect leakage, automation effectiveness, release readiness) and drive continuous improvement.

As a QA Engineer at Cover Genius, you will develop test frameworks, working closely with engineers to help implement best testing practices and ensure our QA processes are robust and scalable.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end QA strategy for Core Services, defining standards, quality gates, metrics, and a multi-quarter automation roadmap.

• Design, maintain, and extend automated API test suites using Python (PyTest framework), ensuring robust coverage across all critical endpoints, workflows, and integrations;

• Design, execute, and automate REST API tests using Postman (collections, environment variables, pre-/post-request scripts), ensuring coverage of all critical endpoints;

• AI-driven QA lead: accelerate requirements analysis, test design, automation, code review, test-data generation, and AI tool scouting—while maintaining a prompt playbook and ensuring clear, testable specs with product and engineering;

• Understand and reinforce the business value of the requirements of the company and project core goals of the products and services we offer;

• Review developer’s code, requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback;

• Define and implement non-functional testing strategy for APIs (performance, reliability, resilience, security-smoke), and ensure appropriate coverage and gates;

• Perform thorough regression testing; identify, record, document thoroughly, and track bugs.

What you will bring

• 4+ years of QA/Test Engineering experience with strong hands-on background in API test automation (UI automation experience is not required); , including ownership of automation strategy and technical leadership across teams;

• Proficiency in Python with proven experience using the PyTest framework for API test automation (non-negotiable) , including strong CI/CD experience for automated API testing (e.g., test selection, parallelisation, flake management, reporting/metrics);

• Proven experience in REST API testing (e.g., Postman) with solid understanding of HTTP and client-server architecture;

• Hands-on use of generative-AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, etc.) for requirements analysis, test design, and automation code;

• Strong troubleshooting/problem-solving skills with ability to integrate new AI or testing tools into frameworks and CI/CD pipelines.

• Exposure to performance testing and reliability testing for APIs and platform services.

What you will have

• Demonstrated ownership mindset with ability to lead cross-team initiatives and influence without direct authority;

• Passionate about Quality Assurance and continuous improvement, with a focus on API automation in Python (PyTest);

• Enthusiastic about experimenting with and leveraging AI technologies to boost productivity;

• Excellent attention to detail and ability to handle high-pressure situations;

• Organised, efficient, and adaptable to both independent and collaborative work;

• Strong team player with proven experience collaborating across Scrum/Kanban teams

Why Cover Genius?  

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible Work Environment - our teams are hybrid. We work from home on Wednesdays and Thursday and attend the office on Monday, Tuesday and Friday with flexibility around start/finish times. We also have the added bonus of a Wellness day a month.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may collect, store and process your personal data for recruitment purposes. To ensure a fair evaluation, we may use AI to assist in sorting applications, but all final decisions are made by our hiring team and no candidate dispositions are automated. We will keep your information on file for three years from the date of your application.  For detailed information about how we handle your data and our use of AI, please review our full Privacy Policy.