Senior SDET, Back End

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Quanata, LLCInsurance software
You may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories., Core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific timeFull-TimeSenior
Salary198,000 - 281,000 USD per year
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Job Details

Experience
Typically 6–8 years of software testing or engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on backend APIs and service-based architectures.
Required Skills
CI/CDMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
  • Typically 6–8 years of software testing or engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on backend APIs and service-based architectures.
  • Hands-on experience developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.
  • Strong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language and ability to design, review, and debug maintainable test code.
  • Deep understanding of API testing, microservice interactions, service contracts, and distributed application behavior.
  • Advanced automation design skills, including test lifecycle management, parameterized execution, mocking, shared utilities, and parallel execution.
  • Practical experience testing and troubleshooting public-cloud applications, including identity and permissions, networking, compute, storage, and messaging dependencies.
  • Experience with continuous integration and delivery, source control, automated quality checks, and environment configuration.
  • Strong database querying skills and ability to trace data and failures across multiple services.
  • Ability to turn incomplete requirements into meaningful tests and communicate technical findings clearly.
  • Property and casualty insurance experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools for QA and engineering teams.
  • Own test strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and end-to-end business workflows.
  • Design and extend code-based automation frameworks with reusable setup and cleanup, data-driven scenarios, dependency isolation, and clear failure reporting.
  • Validate business rules, API contracts, data persistence, authorization, error handling, and compatibility across services.
  • Test asynchronous processing and distributed-system failure conditions, including retries, duplicate events, partial failures, and delayed consistency.
  • Establish automated checks in CI/CD pipelines and improve feedback speed and test reliability.
  • Validate cloud-hosted services and deployment configurations, troubleshooting failures with logs, telemetry, and infrastructure evidence.
  • Assess performance and resilience risks, review requirements and architecture, communicate quality risks, and mentor engineers.
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