Staff Quality Engineer - Exploratory Test Lead
BestowLife Insurance company
United StatesLead
TriplePoint Capital
New Enterprise Associates
Valar Ventures
Goldman Sachs Growth Equity
Smith Point Capital
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Lead exploratory testing and quality engineering in R&D, shaping software definition and verification.
- •This Staff Quality Engineer role is embedded first within Bestow Innovation Lab, the R&D group that invents the next generation of our platform and then scales the practice across Engineering.
- •You will work alongside domain experts and researchers, product engineering teams, Platform Engineers, Technical Program Management, Compliance, and the rest of the Quality Engineering team.
- •Key Responsibilities Design and execute chartered, time-boxed testing sessions.
- •Investigate critical failure modes that structural checks cannot catch.
- •Model risk using the Heuristic Test Strategy Model and related approaches.
- •Partner with Product, Labs, and Engineering in Example Mapping and Specification-by-Example workshops.
- •Build and use tools to extend your own reach.
- •Requirements 10+ years of demonstrated experience with progressively increasing responsibility in software testing and test automation.
- •A serious tester who investigates products, not just verifies them.
- •Fluent in craft vocabulary and able to apply it under pressure.
- •Risk-analysis depth.
- •Experience with decision logic and configuration-driven behavior.
Required skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptLLMsGitLinuxJiraConfluenceOpenAPIREST API
Nice-to-have skills
PytestSeleniumCypressPlaywrightk6Locust
Domain expertise
insurtech
Benefits & perks
Equity, Health insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, Paid time off, Parental leave, Lifestyle stipend, Remote work
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptLLMsGitLinuxJiraConfluenceOpenAPIREST API