Quality Assurance & Test Engineer - Contract Assignment - Remote

Quality Assurance & Test Engineer - Contract Assignment - RemoteUpland Capital Group, Inc. is an AM Best rated "A-" VIII specialty property/casualty insurer headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Through its wholly owned insurance carrier, Upland Specialty Insurance Company, the company markets, underwrites and services specialty insurance products in select markets to include excess transportation, construction casualty, excess casualty, primary general liability, excess public entity, professional liability errors and omissions as well as excess cyber liability. We focus on "old school" underwriting as a craft, add "new school" analytics and technology, and encourage a gritty, growth mindset among people called "we entrepreneurs."As an Excess and Surplus (E&S) carrier, we face unique and interesting problems every day. We are seeking a Quality Assurance & Test Engineer for a part time (20 hours per week) six-month contract.Primary Function:At our Risk, Analytics, and Data (RAD) team, we focus on Actuarial, Data Science, Data and ModelEngineering, and Enterprise Risk Management functions. Our model environment and architecture is containerized, and we are cloud based, running on Azure. Our vision is to build highly automated and efficient processes to build, test, and deploy our models and products for enhancing actuarial, underwriting and claim insights with timely and relevant data-driven analytics and technology.Duties and Responsibilities:Manually test the RAD Hub platform end-to-end to validate behavior against product requirement documents (PRDs) and acceptance criteriaWrite, maintain, and execute structured test cases, plans, and bug reports against documented PRDsReproduce, isolate, and document defects with clear retrace steps, expected vs. actual behavior, environment details, and supporting artifacts (logs, screenshots, network traces)Verify fixes and conduct regression passes across environmentsPartner with engineers and product to clarify requirements, validate edge cases, and sign off on releasesTest across browsers, viewports, and user rolesContribute to QA process maturity, e.g. release checklists, smoke test suites, UAT coordination, and triage workflowsExperience, Education, Special Skills Required:Prior experience in a manual QA, software testing, or quality engineering role on web applicationsDemonstrated ability to read and interpret PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria, and translate them into test casesAbility to work as an independent contractorStrong attention to detail and a methodical, systematic approach to clicking through every state, edge case, and failure pathExperience writing clear, reproducible bug reports in tools such as Jira, GitHub or equivalentComfortable using browser developer tools to inspect network requests, console errors, and DOM stateComfortable navigating environments, switching user roles, and managing test dataStrong written communication and ability to articulate defects and risks clearly to product teamDisclosures:Pay Estimate: $50 - $65 per hour20 hours per week – may fluctuate6 month duration