Senior Quality Engineer (Life Insurance)

Location: Remote, United States; flexible remote/hybrid work is available, with an office option in Dallas, Texas.

Salary: $145,000–$178,000 annually, plus equity and bonus opportunities.

Company

hirify.global provides an AI- and automation-powered technology platform that helps life insurers modernize and launch insurance products faster.

What you will do

• Own the test strategy and quality signal for underwriting decisioning, including rules changes, evidence ingestion, risk classification, and case outcomes.
• Design test scenarios covering complex combinations of impairments, evidence sources, table ratings, and underwriting edge cases.
• Validate rules engine behavior across releases through regression testing focused on decision outcomes.
• Translate underwriting requirements into testable acceptance criteria with underwriters, actuaries, product, and engineering.
• Build and extend API-level and data-level automated checks with the Quality Engineering team.
• Investigate production underwriting discrepancies from root cause analysis through defect prevention.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in life insurance, including substantial experience in underwriting operations, underwriting systems analysis, new business, or underwriting platform testing.
• Working knowledge of underwriting evidence and processes, including application Parts 1 and 2, MIB, prescription and MVR data, APS handling, table ratings, NIGO workflows, and accelerated or automated underwriting.
• Hands-on experience configuring, analyzing, or testing an underwriting rules engine or decisioning platform such as AURA, Magnum, FAST, or a carrier-built engine.
• SQL skills sufficient to independently verify data outcomes.
• Experience writing structured test cases or acceptance criteria and defending quality judgments to engineering and business stakeholders.
• Must be able to work remotely from the United States.

Nice to have

• Test automation experience with JavaScript, TypeScript, Playwright, pytest, or similar tools.
• Experience with API testing tools and CI/CD.
• Exposure to annuities, including suitability review, 1035 exchanges, and income rider mechanics.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible remote and work-from-home options, with access to an office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum.
• Flexible paid time off and parental leave programs supporting work-life balance.
• 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Equity, competitive compensation, and a lifestyle stipend supporting physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing.
• Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.