Quality Assurance Analyst jobs in United Kingdom

• Hybrid role, happy to talk flexible working

The opportunity

The role ensures the accuracy, reliability, and usability of data products, supports compliance with regulatory requirements, and aids QBE's cloud migration and data modernisation efforts. It mitigates operational risks by implementing robust validation and automated data assurance frameworks, optimises efficiency by automating validation processes, and fosters a quality-first culture through collaboration with data engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.

Your new role :

The Data Product Assurance Specialist ensures the reliability, accuracy, and usability of QBE’s data products, including tables, schemas, dashboards, reports, data pipelines, and ingestion patterns. This role involves testing and validating data products from a code, data, and environments perspective to meet business, technical, and regulatory standards. By maintaining high data quality and governance standards, the specialist supports informed decision-making and business intelligence.

• Design and develop data product assurance frameworks to support business unit data demands and ensure data integrity.
• Evaluate and prioritise data quality issues and manage resolution processes.
• Code and document new or modified data product assurance tests and validation tools to create robust and scalable processes.
• Identify, design, and implement internal process improvements, including automating manual tests, optimising data validation, and re-designing data product testing frameworks for scalability.
• Perform peer reviews of validation checks and promote a quality-first culture within the data services team and support the broader testing team in various projects.
• Develop and execute data product testing solutions using Python, Databricks, Spark, and Microsoft Azure Technology Stack to ensure data consistency across multiple sources and platforms.

About you

To be successful in this role you will have proven experience in data product assurance, data quality management, and solution design with demonstrated experience in leading teams of data quality and data assurance professionals, promoting a DevOps culture. Well versed in Agile working environments and capable of leading teams and working independently.

• Proven experience in data product assurance, data product testing on data platforms, data quality management.
• Advanced communication skills, enabling you to articulate, present, influence, and negotiate with key stakeholders.
• Strong working knowledge of the end-to-end data product development and testing lifecycle, including unit testing, SIT, UAT support, data validation, data pipelines, ingestion patterns, and data product testing.
• Strong experience using: MS Stack – Microsoft SQL Server, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, Power BI, and SQL.
• Experience working with MongoDB, Graph databases, and programming languages (R, Python, Spark, ETL SQL, Visual Studio), as well as CI / CD tools (e.g., Bamboo), GitHub, Jira, and Confluence.

About QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage.

We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner.

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other to enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities.

With more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind.

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too?

Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

We offer a range of benefits to help provide holistic support for your work life, whatever your circumstances. As a QBE employee you will have access to and benefit from:

• Hybrid Working – a mix of working from home and in the office to enhance your work/life balance. Happy to talk flexible working!
• Our ‘Thriving at our Best’ wellbeing program, including free holistic wellbeing coaching, nutritional, confidential counselling, financial and legal advice.
• 18 weeks’ gender-equal flexible leave for all new parents, including paid super.
• The ability to maximise retirement savings through voluntary super contributions and company matching.
• Income protection insurance & reimbursed Death and Total Permanent Disability insurance premiums.
• Additional leave and support through QBE’s Family Domestic Violence First Responder Network.
• Discounts on insurance products, car hire, hotels, goods and services including benefits through our various sports and arts sponsorship partners.

Rewards & Recognition

We value our employee’s experience with us and are proud to have been recognised for the following awards:

• 2021 LinkedIn Top Employer & HRD Employer of Choice.
• 2020 Best Workplace Diversity & Inclusion and Excellence Award for Best Health & Wellbeing at the Australian HR Awards.
• Platinum employer in the Australian Workplace Equality Index – the definitive national benchmark on LGBTIQ+ workplace inclusion.
• Ranked 3rd in the AAGE Top Graduate Employers (medium programs) 2024 as voted by graduates.
• Top 20 Workplaces for Dads in 2019 and 2020 (HBF Direct Advice for Dads).
• Family Friendly Accredited employer since 2021.
• Winner Most Inclusive Workplace at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2023.
• Winner Organisational Development category at the Australian HR Institute (AHRI) Awards 2022.

Apply now!

APPLY NOW and let’s make it happen!

Click APPLY to submit your application. Successful applicants will need to complete work rights, police and credit checks through our online provider as a condition of employment.

QBE recognises the value of diverse perspectives and experience. We are committed to an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and respected for who they are. If we can provide support with accessibility requirements and adjustments, alternative work arrangements or you would like to connect with one of our employee networks at any stage of the recruitment process, please contact us at [emailprotected].

Skills:

Business Management, Critical Thinking, Customer Service, Customer Strategy, Data Fusion, Decision Making, Intentional collaboration, Managing performance, Process Improvements, Risk Management, Root Cause Analysis (RCA), Team Development, Team Management, Unstructured Data, Workload Management.

Application Close Date: 30 / 03 / 2025 11 : 59 PM

How to Apply: To submit your application, click "Apply" and follow the step by step process.

Equal Employment Opportunity: QBE is an equal opportunity employer and is required to comply with equal employment opportunity legislation in each jurisdiction it operates.