Senior Quality Engineer: Underwriting Domain Expert

Bestow; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Flexible remote/hybrid work

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Lifestyle stipend

Parental leave

Dallas Deep Ellum office availability

Diversity & inclusion programs

Job summary

Bestow is hiring a senior Quality Engineer to own underwriting test strategy and evidence workflows. You will partner with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering to ensure rule changes and data outputs are correct before release.

The role emphasizes domain judgment, with opportunities to grow automation skills and influence across the underwriting domain. Remote/hybrid work is available with a Dallas office option.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in life insurance, with substantial time in or directly adjacent to underwriting.
• Fluency with underwriting evidence and processes (MIB, APS handling, table ratings, NIGO workflows, etc.).
• Hands-on experience configuring or testing an underwriting rules engine or decisioning platform (e.g. AURA, Magnum, FAST).
• SQL skills strong enough to independently verify data outcomes.
• Experience writing structured test cases or acceptance criteria and defending quality judgments.
• Nice to have: test automation in code (JS/TS, Playwright, pytest), API testing tools, CI/CD familiarity, annuities exposure.

Responsibilities

• Own test strategy and quality signals for underwriting decisions, including rules changes and evidence ingestion.
• Design test scenarios reflecting underwriting complexity and edge cases.
• Validate rules engine behavior across releases with regression checks.
• Translate underwriting requirements into testable criteria with underwriters and product.
• Build and extend API-level and data-level automated checks with QE team.
• Investigate production underwriting discrepancies from root cause to prevention.
• Serve as QE go-to authority on underwriting correctness.

Skills

Underwriting expertise

SQL

Test case development

Test automation (JS/TS, Playwright, Py

Rules engine testing

Tools

AURA

Magnum

FAST

Job description

Bestow is hiring a senior Quality Engineer to own underwriting test strategy and evidence workflows. You will partner with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering to ensure rule changes and data outputs are correct before release.

The role emphasizes domain judgment, with opportunities to grow automation skills and influence across the underwriting domain. Remote/hybrid work is available with a Dallas office option.