Senior SDET, Back End

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop, construct, assess, and sustain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools for QA and engineering teams.

• Take ownership of the testing strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and comprehensive business workflows.

• Maintain a balance among component, contract, integration, and system-level test coverage.

• Design and enhance code-based automation frameworks featuring reusable setup and cleanup, data-driven scenarios, dependency isolation, and failure reporting.

• Verify business rules, API contracts, data persistence, authorization, error handling, and service compatibility.

• Test asynchronous processing and manage distributed-system failure conditions, which include retries, duplicate events, partial failures, and delayed consistency.

• Implement automated checks within continuous integration and delivery pipelines.

• Validate cloud-hosted services and their deployment configurations; troubleshoot failures utilizing logs, telemetry, and infrastructure evidence.

• Evaluate performance and resilience risks while designing targeted test cases.

• Collaborate with engineers to address any identified weaknesses.

• Review requirements and architecture while communicating quality risks.

• Mentor engineers while independently leading complex testing initiatives.

• Carry out other related responsibilities as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Typically possess 6–8 years of software testing or engineering experience, with at least 3 years concentrated on backend APIs and service-based architectures.

• Practical experience in developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.

• Strong expertise in a general-purpose programming language.

• In-depth knowledge of API testing, microservice interactions, service contracts, and distributed application behavior.

• Advanced skills in automation design, including test lifecycle management, parameterized execution, mocking, shared utilities, and parallel execution.

• Experience in testing and troubleshooting public-cloud applications, encompassing identity and permissions, networking, compute, storage, and messaging dependencies.

• Familiarity with continuous integration and delivery, source control, automated quality checks, and environment configuration.

• Strong database querying capabilities and the ability to trace data and failures across various services.

• Ability to transform incomplete requirements into meaningful tests and convey technical findings effectively.

• Preferred experience in property and casualty insurance.

• Experience in testing event-driven architectures and intricate third-party integrations.

• Knowledge of performance, resilience, and service-level security testing.

• Proven track record of enhancing automation reliability, execution time, or defect detection.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and supplemental income plans for employees and their dependents.

• Subscription to the Headspace app.

• Monthly wellness allowance.

• 401(k) Plan with company match.

• One-time $2,000 payment for in-home office equipment and furniture.

• Fully provisioned MacBook Pro.

• Four weeks of paid time off (PTO) in the first year.

• Twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave for both birthing and non-birthing parents.

• Up to $5,000 annually for professional learning, continuing education, and career development.

• Subscriptions to LinkedIn Learning.

• Coaching opportunities through BetterUp.

• Remote-first work arrangement.

• Occasional travel is not required.

• Employees located in the San Francisco Bay Area or Providence, Rhode Island may choose to commute to local offices if desired.