I was recently laid off and have been considering a career change. I'm 46 and have been in software testing/QA for 20+ years with a BSEE degree. I'm getting burned out on doing the same thing for so long and a friend of a friend was telling me about his job as an Insurance Risk Engineer. It sounds interesting, basically assessing risk of a commercial business for coverage. I think it would be a good fit coming from software QA/Testing where I look for vulnerabilities in code. Does anyone have any insight into the job field? I'm not sure if it's just a fancy name for insurance salesman or if it's more technical then that.
I'm a data engineer for a "very large warranty group".<p>We manage the pipelines for downstream analytics.<p>We have combinations of data and actuarial scientists doing this analysis, so those would be good things to look into.<p>One part that dovetails with your QA experience is there's a lot of work with different reporting systems where the data needs to line up correctly.<p>Evaluating risk is more open-ended, since it also requires analysis of external data.<p>Hope this helps a little...<p>Good Luck!