Senior Quality Engineer - Underwriting Automation (Remote)

Hidden Jobs; United States; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Remote-friendly policy

Flexible PTO

Parental leave

Lifestyle stipend

Job summary

Hidden Jobs is seeking a senior Quality Engineer to own underwriting decisioning test strategy for a life insurance tech platform. You will partner with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering to ensure rules changes and evidence integrations are robust before carrier deployment.

Domain depth in underwriting is essential; some test automation growth is expected. You will design complex test scenarios, validate rules engine behavior across releases, and translate requirements into

Qualifications

• 7+ years in life insurance with underwriting exposure or adjacent domains.
• Fluency with underwriting evidence and processes (Part 1/Part 2, MIB, Rx, MVR, APS, table ratings).
• Experience configuring or testing an underwriting rules engine or decisioning platform.
• SQL skills to independently verify data outcomes.
• Experience writing structured test cases or acceptance criteria and defending quality judgments.

Responsibilities

• Own the test strategy and quality signal for underwriting decisioning, including rules changes and evidence ingestion.
• Design test scenarios mirroring underwriting complexity (impairments, evidence sources, table ratings, edge cases).
• Validate rules engine behavior across releases via regression on decision outcomes, not only APIs.
• Translate requirements into testable acceptance criteria with underwriters, actuaries, and product before code is written.
• Build and extend API- and data-level automated checks with the QE team, moving toward full automation for underwriting.
• Investigate production underwriting discrepancies and drive root-cause analysis and defect prevention.

Skills

Underwriting knowledge

Test strategy

SQL

Test case design

Regression testing

Data validation

Tools

Playwright

pytest

JavaScript

TypeScript

Job description

Hidden Jobs is seeking a senior Quality Engineer to own underwriting decisioning test strategy for a life insurance tech platform. You will partner with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering to ensure rules changes and evidence integrations are robust before carrier deployment.

Domain depth in underwriting is essential; some test automation growth is expected. You will design complex test scenarios, validate rules engine behavior across releases, and translate requirements into