Software Engineer in Test(SDET)

About Highspring

Highspring is a next-generation consulting and professional services firm. We deliver modern, agile, and forward-thinking solutions to our clients across North America. We partner with organizations in highly regulated and complex industries, including insurance, to help them modernize platforms, improve quality, and deliver sustainable business value. At Highspring, we believe in empowering our people, fostering technical excellence, and delivering real, measurable impact.

The Opportunity

Highspring is seeking an experienced SDET to support initiatives within a policy insurance platform. In this role, you will contribute to both functional testing and light automation activities, ensuring high-quality deliverables across multiple testing cycles. You may collaborate with one or more Agile delivery teams, depending on the scope of the engagement.

What You’ll Do

• Own the preparation, execution, and documentation of test activities throughout all testing phases.
• Develop and maintain test cases, test matrices, test plans, and test reports in alignment with established standards and processes.
• Analyze business and functional requirements and translate them into clear, executable functional and automated test scenarios.
• Identify, document, analyze, and track defects; perform root-cause analysis and collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, developers, and Scrum Masters to resolve issues.
• Execute functional, regression, and exploratory testing across complex systems.
• Quickly ramp up on new applications and platforms to perform test analysis, scripting, execution, and automation with minimal onboarding.
• Take a proactive approach by asking questions, seeking clarification, requesting work, and anticipating testing needs.
• Develop and maintain back-end automated tests using Concordion, including writing automation scripts, executing automated test suites, and contributing to the ongoing improvement of the automation framework.
• Support continuous quality improvement initiatives across the delivery lifecycle.

What You Bring to the Table

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience as a Test automation/SDET in a large-scale or complex IT environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business language and vice versa.
• A strong sense of ownership, accountability, integrity, and customer focus.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, evolving Agile environment.

Core Skills Required

• Proven experience in automation testing within enterprise platforms.
• Hands-on experience with test automation development; experience with Concordion or similar frameworks is strongly preferred.
• Experience executing and maintaining automated test suites using Java, selenium and API automation.
• Defect management and root-cause analysis expertise.
• Strong working knowledge of Jira and Confluence.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.
• Insurance domain knowledge is considered an asset.

Our Stack

• Test Automation: Concordion
• Test Management & Collaboration: Jira, Confluence

Why Join Highspring?

• Work with a collaborative and high-performing consulting team.
• Contribute to impactful, enterprise-scale initiatives in the insurance domain.
• Gain exposure to modern platforms, tools, and Agile delivery practices.
• Access continuous learning, professional growth, and long-term career opportunities.
• Be part of a people-first culture that values quality, accountability, and results.