Senior SDET, Back End [Remote-US]

The role

This Senior SDET will improve the quality and reliability of services supporting insurance products and business workflows. You will design and maintain automation frameworks, validate backend APIs, and test distributed systems in cloud-hosted environments.

What you will do

• Design, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools.
• Own test strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and end-to-end business workflows.
• Design and extend code-based automation frameworks.
• Validate business rules, API contracts, data persistence, authorization, error handling, and compatibility.
• Test asynchronous processing and distributed-system failure conditions.
• Establish automated checks in continuous integration and delivery pipelines.
• Validate cloud-hosted services and deployment configurations.
• Assess performance and resilience risks.
• Review requirements and architecture and mentor engineers.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
• 6–8 years of software testing or engineering experience.
• At least 3 years focused on backend APIs and service-based architectures.
• Substantial hands-on experience developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language.
• Deep understanding of API testing, microservice interactions, service contracts, and distributed application behavior.
• Advanced automation design skills.
• Practical experience testing and troubleshooting public-cloud applications.
• Experience with continuous integration and delivery, source control, automated quality checks, and environment configuration.
• Strong database querying skills.

Nice to have

• Property and casualty insurance experience, including policy administration, billing, rating, claims, or related integrations.
• Experience testing event-driven architectures and complex third-party integrations.
• Experience with performance, resilience, and service-level security testing.
• Demonstrated improvement of automation reliability, execution time, or defect detection.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans.
• Headspace app subscription.
• Monthly wellness allowance.
• 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• One-time $2K payment for in-home office equipment and furniture.
• Provisioned MacBook Pros.
• Four weeks of PTO in the first year.
• Twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development.
• LinkedIn Learning subscriptions.
• Access to coaching opportunities through BetterUp.

About the company

Quanata is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions. It is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.