RO System Tester II-2 (1 year contract)

System Tester (1 year contract)

About us

We are NN Romania , a trusted leader in life insurance and private pensions , dedicated to helping people protect what matters most and build a secure financial future. We offer you the space to be yourself, to grow at your own pace and to have a real impact, in a culture built on 3 essential behaviors: Team Up, Speak Up, Step Up.

We believe that development begins when you have the courage to take a step beyond your comfort zone. That's why we provide you with the context, resources, and support you need to learn, evolve, and make an impact.

"Make change work" means real support throughout your journey, including by integrating AI into the way we work and make decisions.

Your mission

Join the NN team as System Tester . If you feel like it's time to conquer the next peak, your backpack is ready. We are already on the route. We are waiting for you to join us!

What will you do?

• •Analyze functional specifications and business requirements to identify potential weaknesses, define test coverage, and develop comprehensive test plans in line with internal standards and procedures.
• •Maintain traceability between business requirements, test cases, test results, and reported defects to identify coverage gaps and support validation.
• •Identify and document defects in the defect management system, including the relevant test case, steps to reproduce, and expected and actual results.
• •Verify that test environments, access rights, and test data are ready before execution, and report any dependencies or blockers that prevent testing.

• •Execute manual functional and non-functional tests in specific test environments, ensuring alignment with test plans and specifications
• •Conduct integration and end-to-end tests to validate system interactions and complete application flows, ensuring compliance with functional and user experience requirements
• •Perform ad-hoc and exploratory testing to uncover issues not covered by standard scenarios

• •Plan and execute regression tests based on the impact of application changes to verify that existing functionality continues to work as expected.
• •Identify and prioritize use cases suitable for test automation based on business criticality, repeatability, and regression needs.
• •Prepare and document automation-ready test cases with clear preconditions, test data, execution steps, and expected results, collaborating with automation engineers to clarify dependencies and validation points.

Re-test applications after defect corrections to confirm resolution

Track defects through resolution, collaborate with the relevant teams to agree severity and priority, and escalate unresolved issues that may affect testing completion.

Assess risks associated with application changes and test the implementation of risk mitigation measures

• •Document test results, retain supporting evidence, and keep test documentation up to date.
• •Prepare a test completion summary covering execution results, outstanding defects, residual risks, and agreed exit criteria to support validation and release approval by the designated stakeholders.
• •Communicate testing status, progress, risks, and blockers to the project team and management.

• •Actively participate in team meetings (daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, planning, retrospectives)
• •Propose and implement best practices to optimize testing workflows

Estimation & Support Activities

• •Contribute to effort estimation for testing activities, ensuring efficient and realistic planning of resources and deadlines
• •Provide support to colleagues during acceptance testing
• •Investigate reported defects during acceptance testing and assign them to responsible parties, offering additional details as needed
• •Assist application users when support is requested

Coordination & Training

Coordinate and monitor testing activities within the team when required

Contribute to preparing training materials for new team members and colleagues from other departments, and deliver onboarding training to new team members.

Additional Responsibilities

Perform any other tasks related to the natural workflow and mission of the position, as required for all specialization levels

What will you bring?

• •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
• •Previous experience in manual software/system testing, preferably in insurance, banking, or enterprise environments
• •Practical API testing skills, including validating HTTP methods, status codes, headers, request and response payloads, authentication, error handling, and positive and negative scenarios using tools such as Postman or equivalent.Ability to write SQL queries, including joins and aggregations, to prepare and validate test data, verify data integrity and persistence, and reconcile data across applications and databases.
• •Proficiency in designing, documenting, and executing test cases and test plans, using techniques such as boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, and state transition testing.
• •Ability to perform system testing against business and functional requirements, covering complete application workflows, business rules, positive and negative scenarios, regression, and exploratory testing.
• •Practical skills in integration testing between systems, including validating interface contracts, field mappings, data exchanges, error handling, and end-to-end data consistency across APIs, batch or file transfers, and asynchronous messages where applicable.
• •Solid understanding of software development life cycle (SDLC) and software testing life cycleAbility to investigate issues using application logs, browser developer tools, and request and response traces, and to provide reproducible technical evidence for defect analysis.
• •Familiarity with test management and defect tracking tools.Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and problem-solving skills for requirement analysis, test design, and root cause analysis.
• •Ability to document test results, defects, and test progress clearly and concisely.
• •Attention to detail and a methodical approach to identifying and reporting issues
• •Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities and project needs Communicates with clarity, empathy, and impact.
• •Thrives in collaborative environments and lifts others up.
• •Proactively identifies opportunities for improvement and takes action.
• •You use your curiosity and automation tools (including AI) to make change work and constantly improve the way we work.
• •You communicate with empathy, clarity and impact.
• •You work well in a team and support others.
• •You proactively identify opportunities for improvement and come up with initiative.

What we offer

At NN we believe that a diverse team helps us better serve our clients. NN Romania brings together colleagues of different nationalities, languages and cultures and we want to create an environment in which diversity thrives. We promote a culture that welcomes and respects everyone. NN ensures equal opportunities and fair rewards for all employees, regardless of age, race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

• •Extra safety: Life and health insurance, plus group surgical insurance.
• •Health & wellbeing: Flexible benefits package, which may include private medical, dental, surgical, life insurance and optional pension.
• •Flexibility for your lifestyle: Hybrid working hours, flexible hours and short Friday.
• •Work where you feel inspired: Up to 60 days/year of remote work from abroad.
• •Time for you: Up to 27 days of leave, depending on seniority, plus days off for unforeseen personal events.
• •Relaxation at the office: Massage at the office.
• •Modern office: In a quiet and central area of Bucharest, close to the subway.
• •Extra smart benefits: Bookster and HILIO subscriptions
• •Professional growth: Access to development programs tailored to your needs – yo