Caava Group is a holding company at the forefront of transforming the African insurance landscape. It brings together multiple complementary businesses under one umbrella — Caava Evolve, Caava AI, Agencify, and TurnQuest V4 by Caava — modernizing legacy insurer operations, expanding digital distribution through agents, and harnessing AI-driven solutions to streamline underwriting, claims, and customer engagement.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Quality Assurance (QA) Engineer
Location: Lagos (Hybrid)
Reporting to: Quality Assurance (QA) Lead
Role Purpose
- Evolve is Caava Group’s insurance management platform, built on Spring Boot services with Angular and Next.js frontends, and used by AIICO for its insurance operations.
- Support the testing of Evolve’s APIs and user workflows through manual, exploratory and automated testing. Work with experienced engineers to find defects, verify fixes and build reliable test coverage.
Career Path:
- Progression to Associate QA Engineer depends on consistent delivery against these measures, growing independence on larger tasks, test and evidence quality, and business need.
Core Accountabilities
API testing and validation:
- Translate requirements into test cases and test assigned REST APIs using Postman or similar tools.
- Check schemas, status codes, authentication, authorisation, error handling and edge cases. Maintain API collections and record results against agreed coverage.
- Check OpenAPI/Swagger documentation against API behaviour and work with engineers to close gaps.
Frontend quality assurance:
- Perform manual, exploratory, cross-browser and responsive testing of Evolve workflows.
- Test forms, validation and user journeys; reproduce UI and usability issues.
Test automation:
- Build and maintain foundational API and UI automation in the team’s framework, with review.
- Maintain safe test data and fixtures; help run tests in CI and investigate failures.
Defect reporting and release quality:
- Write reproducible defect reports with steps, expected and actual results, and evidence.
- Verify fixes, run regression tests and escalate blockers or quality risks early.
- Summarise test coverage and open defects to support release decisions.
Additional Inforation:
- Works With: Software Engineers, QA Engineers and Product
- Scope: Manual, exploratory and automated testing of assigned Evolve APIs and user workflows
- Tech Stack: Postman, REST/JSON, OpenAPI/Swagger, Playwright, Git, CI and SQL
- Growth Path: Associate QA Engineer, based on performance and business need
Requirements
Experience and Working Style:
- A QA internship, coursework, personal projects or equivalent practical testing experience.
- Understanding of test cases, regression and exploratory testing, and the defect lifecycle.
- Basic scripting ability in Python, TypeScript or Java, with interest in test automation.
- Basic REST, HTTP and JSON knowledge, with exposure to Postman or a similar API tool.
- Ability to document test results clearly and use evidence to explain defects.
Working Style:
- Attention to detail and curiosity about how user workflows and systems behave.
- Clear communication, follow-through on assigned work and willingness to ask for help when blocked.
Nice to Have:
- Exposure to Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or Pytest through a project or internship.
- Familiarity with Git, CI/CD pipelines or OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Basic SQL for data validation and an interest in insurance workflows.