Software Quality Assurance Engineer at Coronation Insurance Plc

Coronation is a leading financial service partner that helps build enduring legacies for sustainable wealth creation in Africa. Having established a 30-year record of achievements in banking across Africa and beyond, our founders established a Pan-African platform focused on building a better financial future for Africa. Today, our businesses are entrusted with our over $1billion of clients’ assets and are recognized as Nigeria's fastest-growing investment managers. Our purpose at Coronation is to create a prosperous future for our clients and the African continent. Coronation is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We enable an inclusive workplace by identity, disability, and other statuses protected by law.

Coronation Insurance Plc– an affiliated company to Coronation Group Ltd - is a leading insurance provider of a diverse range of products and services covering general and special risk businesses to individuals and corporate entities.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Department: Information Technology

Job Summary

• The Software Quality Assurance Engineer role is responsible for safeguarding the quality, reliability, and performance of the company’s digital platforms.
• This role involves planning, designing, executing, and automating tests to ensure robust functionality, while actively contributing to continuous improvement efforts across the software development lifecycle.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive test strategies, plans, and detailed test cases for new features and existing
• system enhancements, ensuring full coverage of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Analyze and review business requirements, user stories, and technical design documents to identify potential issues early and provide actionable feedback for improvements.
• Identify, document, and track software defects using appropriate tools working collaboratively with development teams to ensure timely triage, resolution, and verification of defects.
• Perform rigorous manual and automated functional, regression, usability, and performance testing across platforms to validate that applications meet business needs.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test scripts and frameworks to increase testing efficiency, speed, and reliability, particularly for regression and performance tests.
• Prepare detailed QA reports highlighting quality indicators, test results, defect trends, and areas for improvement. Monitor key metrics such as defect density and test coverage.
• Partner closely with developers, product managers, DevOps, and IT teams to ensure consistent quality and timely delivery throughout all phases of product development.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance QA processes, tools, and methodologies to optimize testing efforts and drive process maturity.
• Work with internal stakeholders to understand technical and business requirements, ensuring they are well-defined and testable.
• Analyze failed test results, investigate root causes, and provide insights to reduce recurring issues and improve overall system reliability.

Key Requirements
Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related technical discipline.
• 3 - 5 years of proven experience in software quality assurance or software testing.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), with emphasis on how testing integrates within Agile/Scrum environments.
• Proficiency in test management and defect tracking tools such as JIRA, TestRail, or similar.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing frameworks and tools including but not limited to: Selenium, Postman, Appium, Jenkins, and Git.
• Experience in writing SQL queries and using scripting languages for test automation or data validation.
• Solid knowledge of testing methodologies, best practices, and the ability to apply them across various application types (web, mobile, API).
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills with an attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate technical issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Flexible Working Arrangement:

• Coronation’s current flexible working arrangement is designed to enable in-person connections and
• collaboration that is core to our culture such that it provides employees the flexibility of working from
• both the office (on-premises) and remotely.

Our Benefits

• To help you stay energized, engaged, and inspired, we offer a wide range of employee benefits
• including a competitive compensation package, a robust rewards package, retirement benefits and
• tools designed to help you build a sound financial future.
• We also provide an environment that fosters the actualization of goals, and career fulfillment for our
• people while providing transformational solutions for Africa’s challenges.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CVs and applications to: careers@coronationinsurance.com.ng using the job title as the subject of the email.