About

• Company Description
• Help protect over 5 million Australians, making a real difference in their lives during their most challenging times.
• Work with experienced and skilled colleagues who support and inspire one another to achieve collective success
• Take advantage of access to resources, industry-leading training, and mentoring to accelerate your professional development and expertise.
• Welcome to TAL. As a leading life insurer, we’ve been protecting Australians for over 150 years. Backed by Dai-ichi Life, we're driven by big ambitions and empower to create better products and services.
• Together with our Partners, we’re helping millions of Australians live a life filled with choices, options, and freedoms. See the direct impact you make delivering support and financial security with care and expertise. Grow beyond expectations with diverse roles, global connections, and exclusive learning opportunities.
• Work with passionate, bright and capable colleagues. Feel inspired by supportive leaders. Collaborate with heart, where flexibility, wellbeing and inclusivity is valued. Together, we're reimagining insurance.
• So, bring a curious mind and an ambition to help us become the progressive, digitally enabled leading insurer.
• Job Description

This role is designed to lead and execute comprehensive Quality Engineering (QE) efforts to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of the platform. It combines strategic leadership with hands-on testing expertise, and includes the following core objectives

• Quality Assurance & Testing Leadership
• Lead the creation and execution of functional and non-functional testing strategies, aligned with the TAL QE Strategy.
• Develop and implement automation test strategies with measurable goals.
• Standardize testing practices and ensure compliance with the established testing framework.
• Design reusable templates to streamline test design and improve efficiency.
• Test Design & Execution
• Collaborate with engineering managers, developers, and product managers to gather system requirements and understand functionality.
• Prepare detailed test plans and BDD test cases from functional specs, business requirements, or user stories.
• Conduct exploratory, functional, progression, and regression testing—both manual and automated.
• Log and track defects using defect management tools, ensuring timely resolution.
• Automation & Infrastructure
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts.
• Maintain and enhance the automation framework by adding new features.
• Set up and manage test infrastructure to support scalable testing operations.
• Agile & PI Planning Participation
• Participate in PI Planning and Story refinement sessions to clarify acceptance criteria, monitor risks, and confirm the Definition of Done.
• Coordinate test plans with release and environment schedules for the PI.
• Support offshore QE Enablement to ensure global alignment and execution.
• Collaboration & Advocacy
• Participate in code reviews and provide feedback on testability and improvements.
• Maintain thorough test documentation and adhere to testing standards.
• Advocate for QE and lead initiatives to meet platform QE goals.
• Continuously contribute to the improvement of testing processes and methodologies.
• Qualifications
• At least 8 years of experience in software testing and automation.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps practices.
• Knowledge or experience in insurance or finance domains.
• Ability to generate test reports covering metrics like test coverage, traceability, and defect leakage.
• Experience testing cloud-hosted applications.

Good to Have

• Experience with automation or performance testing using JMETER.
• Experience working with Playwright and AI.
• Mobile testing experience.
• Additional Information

TAL is one of Australia’s leading life insurers, committed to inclusion, and supporting the career growth of our diverse workforce. We’re proud to be

• An Inclusive Employer – Recognised as Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency and Bronze Tier Status within the Australian Workplace Equality Index
• Diversity Champions – Member of Diversity Council Australia, Australian Disability Network, Pride in Diversity and Champions of Change
• Reconciliation Advocates – Read our Innovate Reconciliation Action Plan.
• We welcome applications from people with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, caregivers, individuals living with disabilities, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and the LGBTIQ+ community.
• Need adjustments during the recruitment process? Let our team know by getting in touch with us here.—we’re here to support you.
• You’re always accountable for your actions. You never give up. You strive to find the best outcomes for customers and partners. And you value working together to find the best solutions for problems.
• As part of the recruitment process, there are several checks which may be conducted to demonstrate your eligibility for a role at TAL including Criminal History, Bankruptcy, Entitlement to Work, Regulatory and Reference Checks.
• #LI-Hybrid
• Everyone at TAL has a responsibility to do the right thing and is accountable for the way they conduct themselves. Our expectations are that you follow the principles set out in our Code of Conduct when you come to work every day. Risk management is everyone’s responsibility.
• If you are already a TAL employee please apply via the SmartRecruiters button in Workday and navigate to the Employee Portal. This is important to ensure that your application is recorded accurately.