Senior Core QA Associate II

Archer; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Archer is seeking a Senior Core QA Associate II to join Verisk's CRS team, focusing on validating the Casualty Catastrophe Model and strengthening testing pipelines. You will design and execute comprehensive QA strategies for REST API testing, data-driven workflows, and cloud-native applications, collaborating across product, engineering, and customer success to ensure accuracy and performance.

You will contribute to automation frameworks, document analytical work in Python/Jupyter or R

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in STEM with 5–7 years of related work experience.
• Experience testing cloud-native UI and API products (REST/gRPC).
• Solid QA methodologies knowledge and experience building test strategies.
• Proficiency with Cypress or Playwright and related tooling (GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, AWS, and data formats (HTML, JSON, XML, YAML).

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain comprehensive QA test suites for the Risk Solutions platform.
• Translate end-to-end workflows into effective test strategies and plans.
• Create and maintain test cases for functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Develop and maintain automated test scripts; contribute to automation frameworks.
• Perform manual and automated testing with emphasis on REST API testing and data-driven workflows.
• Document validation of complex models and ensure accuracy and performance criteria.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and customer success to clarify requirements.

Skills

Problem solving

QA methodologies

Test strategy

Agile/Scrum

Cross-functional collaboration

Edge-case analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in STEM

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

GitHub

Bitbucket

Azure DevOps

REST/gRPC

HTML/JSON/XML/YAML

Job description

Archer is collaborating with Verisk to connect them with exceptional professionals for this role.

Description

Help shape the quality of advanced risk analytics used to make high-stakes decisions. As a Senior Core QA Associate II on Verisk’s Catastrophe and Risk Solutions (CRS) team, you will focus on the Casualty Catastrophe Model—validating complex scientific and financial models while strengthening the testing frameworks and automation pipelines behind our Liability Risk analytics platform.

This is an opportunity to combine quantitative problem-solving, hands‑on software testing, and cross‑functional partnership to deliver products that clients can trust for accuracy, reliability, and performance. You will take on complex, often unstructured challenges, translate insights into stronger quality practices, and help advance scalable testing capabilities across the product lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain comprehensive quality assurance test suites for Verisk Casualty Catastrophe Model.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, software engineers, and customer success analysts to understand end‑to‑end user workflows, use cases, and feature requirements to translate them into effective test strategies.
• Create and maintain test strategies, test plans, and detailed test cases, covering functional, integration, regression, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Partner with developers to design and implement automated test scripts and maintain automation frameworks.
• Execute manual and automated testing, with a strong focus on REST API testing, system‑level testing, and complex data‑driven workflows
• You will ensure that products meet exacting requirements for accuracy and explicit and/or implicit validation of algorithms and document analytical work on Python's Jupyter noteboook or in R Markdown
• You will participate in cross‑functional Agile Scrum teams while delivering concurrent day‑to‑day tasks and use automated testing practices throughout the software development life cycle.
• Position requires a deep commitment to quality assurance that leverages the best practices already in place and help to enhance them.
• Engage with stakeholders as needed to clarify requirements, assumptions, and quality expectations throughout the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have a Bachelor’s degree in STEM related areas (data science, engineering, science, mathematics, finance, economics), with 5-7 years related work experience
• A natural problem‑solver with a strong desire to understand how the product works and is used by the clients, including edge cases and underlying assumptions.
• Significant experience in developing or testing cloud‑native UI and API products (REST/gRPC), web applications, and cloud‑testing environments.
• A strong knowledge of QA methodologies, with demonstrated experience in building test strategies.
• A passion for driving efficiency and advocating for continuous process improvements.
• Familiarity with test automation frameworks such as Cypress and Playwright, along with tools such as GitHub, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, and data formats including HTML, JSON, XML, and YAML.
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure and the AWS ecosystem.