Senior Quality Engineer

Essential Skills

• Confidence, ability and desire to shift left and truly understand what quality means for our business.
• Deep familiarity with behavior-driven-development approaches including the Cucumber/Gherkin syntax for test scenarios
• Experience working using a modern test automation approach. You will be an SDET who writes code to ensure quality outcomes.
• Excellent knowledge of and proven experience with Python testing frameworks particularly pytest.
• Good knowledge of SQL and ideally of dbt.
• Hands-on experience working with modern cloud data lakehouse technologies e.g. Databricks (preferred) or Snowflake.
• Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical team members in agile Scrum ceremonies – roadmap planning, feature workshops, backlog elaboration, code review.

Desirable Skills

Beyond the required skills we are open to individuals of diverse talents. Experience with additional technologies, data science knowledge or an insurance background are all valued. We want to know how your unique abilities can contribute to our team.

Our Technology

We operate in a diverse technical landscape and are looking for flexible engineers who can adapt to and use many different tools. We would not expect any engineer to be familiar with the entire tech stack – no engineer can. Instead, we seek people with a good understanding of data structures and algorithms and the ability to apply this knowledge in learning new tools.

We have built a modern cloud data platform to realise the full value of our data. It is based on Databricks and use dbt for transformation. We surface data for use by analysts working primarily in PowerBI.

We use pytest for unit testing and would like to expand to using it for end-to-end testing with a BDD approach. Much of our business logic is in dbt so we use built in components and extensions to ensure quality there. We use Azure Pipelines to integrate our testing with our CI/CD.

We are incorporating AI into our practice using tools like Claude Code. We are experimenting widely to identify opportunities for our engineers to deliver more value, more quickly using a variety of technologies.

Our technology landscape is not complete. Our engineering teams will be able and required to help us build out our technology stack to fill gaps and embrace new opportunities.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary and bonus (based on personal & company performance)
• 401(k) with competitive company matching
• Comprehensive health insurance, vision, dental and FSA plans (medical, limited purpose, and dependent care)
• Company paid group term life, short- term disability and long-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• 4 week paid sabbatical after every 5 years of service
• Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs
• Annual reimbursement up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with any fitness program
• Recipient of 2024 Cigna’s Well-Being Award for having a best-in-class health and wellness program
• Dynamic, creative and values-driven culture
• Modern and open office spaces, complimentary drinks

Salary: $120-$160k

The actual salary for this position will be determined by a number of factors, including the scope, complexity and location of the role; the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment.

• Please note that this position is hybrid and requires two (2) days in our office weekly**

About Hiscox USA

Hiscox USA was established in 2006 to focus on the needs underserved and specialty commercial clients via both the regional broker and direct distribution channels and is today the fastest-growing business unit within the Hiscox Group.

Today, Hiscox USA has a talent force of about 400 employees mostly operating out of 6 major cities. Hiscox USA offers a broad portfolio of commercial products, including technology, cyber & data risk, multiple professional liability lines, media, entertainment, management liability, crime, kidnap & ransom, commercial property and terrorism.

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture