Senior Quality Engineer
About The Position
Hiscox is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to join its quality engineering team. This hands-on technical role focuses on automation, in-sprint testing, and strengthening testing frameworks and quality engineering practices across the organization. The engineer will collaborate with developers, product owners, and quality engineering leadership, and participate in the Testing Guild to support continuous improvement, standards alignment, and engineering excellence. The role includes validating stories within each sprint, supporting functional, integration, and end-to-end test readiness, and designing and maintaining automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers. The engineer will advocate for product quality, monitor quality indicators, and support performance, security, and observability testing. This is a hybrid position based in Atlanta, Georgia, with an expectation of working in the office 2–3 days per week.
Requirements
- 5–7+ years of experience in test automation or software engineering.
- Experience with Java.
- Experience with Playwright, JMeter or LoadRunner, and Cucumber.
- Experience with JIRA, Xray, or Zephyr.
- Knowledge of API testing, performance testing, and observability tools.
- Familiarity with Agile/SAFe methodologies.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native testing.
- Excellent communication, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
Nice To Haves
- Insurance or finance experience.
Responsibilities
- Participate in in-sprint testing and ensure stories are validated before each sprint is completed.
- Partner with developers to ensure functional, integration, and end-to-end test readiness.
- Validate acceptance criteria and perform risk-based testing.
- Ensure defects found during a sprint are triaged and resolved quickly.
- Promote shift-left testing practices and an automation-first mindset.
- Improve automation coverage to reduce escaped defects and help optimize in-sprint testing processes for faster releases.
- Design, develop, and maintain automated tests using Java, Playwright, and Cucumber.
- Build automated tests across UI, API, integration, and regression layers.
- Review application designs for testability and provide input early in the software development life cycle.
- Execute automation aligned with CI/CD pipelines.
- Serve as a quality champion within the team and monitor quality indicators, including defect trends and automation health.
- Support performance, security, and observability test initiatives.
- Ensure deliverables meet reliability and functional completeness standards.
- Participate in the Testing Guild and regular knowledge-sharing sessions.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and bonus based on personal and company performance.
- 401(k) with competitive company matching.
- Health insurance, vision, dental, and flexible spending account plans.
- Company-paid group term life, 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 up to $600 for health club membership or fees associated with a fitness program.
- Health and wellness program.
- Modern and open office spaces with complimentary drinks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
