Tarkine Consulting is supporting a major Australian insurer on their Consumer Lines Pricing (CLP) platform, looking to engage a Specialist, Testing (QA/Tester) to join an established quality team focused on pricing rules, premiums, and configuration accuracy across a live insurance product.

This is a hands-on role split roughly evenly between manual and automation testing. You'll carry a genuine manual testing workload — designing and executing test cases, managing defects, supporting releases — alongside running, debugging and extending the team's existing Python-based automation coverage. This isn't a framework-building or architecture role; it suits someone who's comfortable contributing to what's already there rather than designing it from scratch.

The role

- Manual test case design and execution across feature, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
- Testing pricing rules, premiums, and configuration changes for accuracy across scenarios
- Running and debugging existing automated test cases (backend API and frontend UI), and adding additional test cases to the existing Python-based framework (Behave, Playwright)
- Performing maintenance on existing automated test cases
- Estimating test timeframes and communicating test data / environment requirements
- Raising and managing defects in Jira, with reporting via Xray and Confluence




- Contributing to the team's testing practices and knowledge sharing across the wider testing capability

What we're looking for

- Genuine domain exposure to insurance systems, ideally pricing or premium/rating systems — this is a mandatory requirement for this engagement, not just a preference
- Strong experience writing and executing manual test cases from requirements and user stories — this is roughly half the role
- Proficient with Jira, Xray, and Confluence for defect logging, tracking, and reporting
- Some hands-on exposure to backend API testing using Postman or Bruno
- Comfortable running and contributing to an existing Python-based automation framework across API and UI — not expected to design or build a framework from the ground up
- Comfortable working in an Agile environment, collaborating on requirements delivered as user stories
- Good understanding of web technologies — UI concepts, APIs, XML, and JSON
- Desirable: familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Bitbucket, GitHub)

Engagement

- Contract role, minimum 6 months, ASAP start required
- Hybrid working, Sydney or Melbourne based — genuinely versatile on location
- Fast-moving process — candidates who can start straight away will be prioritised

If you've got hands-on insurance or pricing-systems testing experience, a solid manual testing background, and enough automation exposure to run and extend an existing framework, we'd like to hear from you.

📌 Specialist, Testing — Insurance / Pricing Systems (Melbourne)
🏢 Tarkine Consulting Group
📍 Melbourne