Senior Quality Engineer

Hiscox•Atlanta, GA

9d•Hybrid

About The Position

Hiscox is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer for its US Data Engineering practice. The engineer will bring specialist quality engineering expertise to the Data Engineering chapter and take an automation-first, shift-left approach to understanding stakeholder needs and ensuring the quality of data applications. Working with stakeholders and product owners, the role turns business needs into clear, testable requirements and builds automated tests and frameworks to verify delivery and prevent regression. The engineer collaborates with data engineers and quality engineers across the practice, participates in code reviews, and helps establish a culture where everyone owns quality in a psychologically safe environment. The role uses a modern cloud data platform based on Databricks and dbt, with data surfaced for analysts primarily through PowerBI. The team uses pytest, Azure Pipelines, and tools such as Claude Code, and is developing its technology stack as new opportunities arise. This is a permanent, hybrid position based in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, or West Hartford, with two days per week in the office. The listed salary range is $120,000–$160,000, with competitive bonus eligibility. Actual salary depends on factors including role scope, location, and the candidate’s skills, education, training, credentials, and experience.

Requirements

Confidence, ability, and desire to shift left and understand what quality means for the business.
Deep familiarity with behavior-driven development, including Cucumber/Gherkin syntax for test scenarios.
Experience working with a modern test automation approach.
SDET experience writing code to ensure quality outcomes.
Excellent knowledge of and proven experience with Python testing frameworks, particularly pytest.
Good knowledge of SQL.
Hands-on experience with modern cloud data lakehouse technologies such as Databricks or Snowflake.
Experience collaborating with technical and non-technical team members in Agile Scrum ceremonies, including roadmap planning, feature workshops, backlog elaboration, and code review.

Nice To Haves

Experience with dbt.
Experience with additional technologies.
Data science knowledge.
An insurance background.
Familiarity with Databricks is preferred over Snowflake.

Responsibilities

Engage with stakeholders as early as possible to understand what they need from data applications.
Work with product owners to translate stakeholder needs into unambiguous, testable requirements.
Develop automated tests that verify code meets requirements and prevent regression from future development.
Build, expand, and improve automation frameworks to make testing effective and efficient.
Collaborate with data engineers in the squad to help deliver quality code and with quality engineers across the practice to maintain coherent, comprehensive test coverage.
Participate in code reviews for data and quality engineers with a continuous-improvement mindset.
Balance attention to detail with a risk-based approach to deliver quality outcomes at high velocity.
Help build a culture of quality in which everyone takes ownership of quality outputs in a psychologically safe environment.
Help build out the engineering technology stack to address gaps and embrace new opportunities.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus based on personal and company performance.
401(k) with competitive company matching.
Health insurance, vision and dental plans, and flexible spending account plans for medical, limited-purpose, and dependent-care expenses.
Company-paid group term life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage.
Paid parental leave.
Four-week paid sabbatical after every five years of service.
Financial Adoption Assistance and Medical Travel Reimbursement Programs.
Annual reimbursement of up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with a fitness program.
Health and wellness program recognized with a 2024 Cigna Well-Being Award.
Modern and open office spaces with complimentary drinks.