Senior Quality Engineer - Underwriting

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Quality Engineering (QE) team makes sure the decisions Bestow's platform produces for carrier partners are correct, not just technically functional. This role is our reference authority on underwriting correctness. You'll partner with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering to make sure every rule change, evidence integration, and risk classification holds up before it reaches a carrier.

We're hiring a senior individual contributor whose main qualification is deep life insurance underwriting expertise. You've spent years working in or testing underwriting operations and systems, and you can look at a decision output and know whether it's right before anyone writes a defect report. Domain depth is the requirement. Test automation skill is highly valued, but we can train it. If you're an expert automation engineer with light insurance exposure, this probably isn't the right fit. If you're an underwriting systems expert, underwriting business analyst, or QA specialist who has lived inside rules engines and evidence workflows and wants to grow your engineering skills, then you are on the right path.

Reports to the Quality Engineering Director.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Own test strategy and quality signal for underwriting decisioning, including rules changes, evidence ingestion, risk classification, and case outcomes.

• Design test scenarios that reflect real underwriting complexity: combinations of impairments, evidence sources, table ratings, and edge cases that generic test coverage misses.

• Validate rules engine behavior across releases, running regression on decision outcomes and not just API contracts.

• Translate underwriting requirements into testable acceptance criteria with underwriters, actuaries, and product before code is written.

• Build and extend API-level and data-level automated checks with the core QE team, growing toward full ownership of automation for the underwriting domain.

• Investigate production underwriting discrepancies and take them from root cause analysis through defect prevention.

• Serve as the QE organization's go-to authority on underwriting correctness.

WHO YOU ARE

• 7+ years in life insurance, with substantial time in or directly adjacent to underwriting: underwriting operations, underwriting systems analysis, new business, or testing underwriting platforms.

• Working fluency with underwriting evidence and process, including application Part 1 and Part 2, Medical Information Bureau (MIB), prescription (Rx) and motor vehicle record (MVR) data, attending physician statement (APS) handling, table ratings, not in good order (NIGO) workflows, and accelerated or automated underwriting programs.

• Hands-on experience configuring, analyzing, or testing at least one underwriting rules engine or decisioning platform (for example AURA, Magnum, FAST, or a carrier-built engine).

• SQL skills strong enough to independently verify data outcomes.

• Experience writing structured test cases or acceptance criteria and defending quality judgments to engineering and business stakeholders.

• Nice to have (we'll help you grow here): test automation in code (JavaScript/TypeScript, Playwright, pytest, or similar), API testing tools and CI/CD familiarity, and annuities exposure such as suitability review, 1035 exchanges, and income rider mechanics.

WHAT TO EXPECT

A few honest notes so nobody is surprised in month two. This is a senior IC role, not a pure automation role and not a management role. Your leverage comes from domain judgment first and tooling second. Some of the systems you'll test integrate with legacy carrier and vendor platforms, so the work includes ambiguity, incomplete documentation, and some archaeology. You'll also be the deepest underwriting expert on the QE team, which means real influence and sometimes being the only person in the room who can answer the question.

• Competitive salary and equity based on role

• Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote

• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

• Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!