Job Details

Kuvare is on a mission to serve hardworking consumers overwhelmed by the complexities of retirement and is built from the ground up to do so. Our unified financial hub protects the retirement of everyday Americans and the distributors, carriers and investors that serve them. We create life insurance and annuity products that protect consumers retirements, and are simplified for distributor partners and financial professionals to sell and service.

Kuvare family of companies

• Retail Annuity and Life Insurance Solutions:
  
  • United Life Insurance Company
  • Guaranty Income Life Insurance Company
  • Lincoln Benefit Life
  
  
• Institutional Insurance:
  • Kuvare Life Re
  
  
• Bespoke Insurance Solutions:
  • Ignite Partners
  
  

About the role

Kuvare is seeking a QA Analyst to join our Data Foundations Team (DFT). This role is responsible for end-to-end quality across our data and application platforms. Kuvare is seeking a talented individual with advanced QA expertise who can work across systems: legacy, cloud, UI, APIs, and Data (SQL) and embed quality at every stage of our SDLC.

What youll do

• Own QA strategy from intake through production release.
• Review backlog items to ensure acceptance criteria are testable and measurable.
• Create test plans and data validation strategies for Features and Tickets.
• Use automation / development and testing frameworks (e.g. Swagger, Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman, etc.).
• Represent QA in every Scrum ceremony and SDLC milestone.
• Track QA metrics (e.g. coverage, defect escape, cycle time impact) and drive improvement.
• Stay current with QA trends, including AI-based testing approaches.
• Partner with Product Owners and Business Analysts to decompose user stories into clear, testable acceptance criteria.
• Confirm that ingested and transformed data align with business rules, definitions, and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate smooth integration testing across upstream and downstream systems to confirm end-to-end data and process accuracy.
• Apply diverse testing methods (functional, regression, smoke, exploratory, black/white/grey box) across APIs, UI, and Azure data workloads (ADF, Databricks, Synapse, ADLS).
• Perform performance, load, accessibility, and security testing to confirm system resilience and compliance.
• Document and track defects, validating fixes and maintaining clear QA evidence.
• Participate in design and code reviews, offering QA input on requirements, schedules, risks, and quality impact.
• Monitor and communicate QA metrics (coverage, defect escape, cycle time) to drive continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science, Information Systems) and 5+ years of experience, or a total of 8+ years of experience as a QA professional.
• Experience executing tests for APIs, UI, and Azure data workloads (e.g. ADF, Synapse, ADLS).
• Experiences evaluating and recommending QA tools and methodologies that improve coverage and efficiency.
• Ability to prevent downstream defects in reporting, analytics, and product functionality by identifying data issues early in the lifecycle and addressing corrupt or incomplete data.
• Proven communication skills necessary to bridge gaps between Business Analysts, Developers, and Data Engineers by clarifying data mapping, transformation logic, and edge cases.
• Design, execute, and maintain test plans, scenarios, and automation scripts that meet Kuvares quality standards.
• Ability to use modern automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Postman, Great Expectations, etc.) to validate functionality, performance, and data integrity.
• Previous experience in Life Insurance and / or Annuities.

The pay range for this role is:
80,000 - 115,000 USD per year (Rosemont )