Senior Full Stack Engineer

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 126,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer in Boston for a hybrid position, focusing on software quality and test automation. This hands-on role involves designing quality assurance strategies and building test frameworks while contributing to full-stack development.

Ideal candidates will have 8+ years of experience in software development and automation, along with strong skills in tools like Cypress and Selenium. A comprehensive benefits package, including medical and retirement, is offered.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on technology experience focused on software development and test automation.
• Experience in building and maintaining automated test frameworks for web and mobile applications.
• Ability to lead technical decisions and initiatives effectively.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement the end-to-end quality assurance and test automation strategy.
• Lead development of scalable automation frameworks for UI, API, and mobile testing.
• Collaborate with product teams to create high-quality user experiences.

Skills

Test automation

Software quality

Automated test frameworks

Performance Testing

Full-stack development

CI/CD pipelines

Agile methodologies

Cloud testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Tools

Cypress

Selenium

Playwright

LoadRunner

JMeter

Splunk

AWS Monitoring tools

Job description

About the Role

Ready to help us transform healthcare? Bring your true colors to blue. At Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, we are seeking an accomplished and passionate Senior Full Stack Engineer to fill a unique hybrid role. This is a hands‑on developer position for an expert who also possesses a deep passion for software quality and test automation. While you will be a key contributor to our full‑stack development efforts, your primary focus will be to own and drive our quality assurance governance and automation strategy. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Development, you will be the team's go‑to expert for building quality and automation into our products from the ground up.

The position is eligible for the Flex persona in our Boston, MA office twice a week.

Your Day to Day

• Lead the vision for quality: Design, own, and implement the end‑to‑end quality assurance and test automation strategy for our digital applications.
• Build robust test frameworks: Personally design, code, and maintain scalable and reusable automation frameworks for UI, API, and mobile testing.
• Be a hands‑on developer: Contribute to full‑stack application development, including front‑end and back‑end components, using modern technologies.
• Champion best practices: Mentor and coach other engineers on writing testable code, effective testing techniques, and leveraging automation tools.
• Integrate AI into QA: Analyze and leverage AI capabilities to revolutionize the quality process, from intelligent test case generation to advanced defect analysis.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, and developers to create seamless, high‑quality user experiences.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues across the full stack, ensuring the stability and reliability of our applications.

We’re Looking For

• A seasoned software engineer with a primary passion for test automation and software quality.
• Deep, hands‑on experience building and maintaining automated test frameworks for web and mobile applications (e.g., using tools like Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Appium), and leveraging BrowserStack.
• Extensive experience in Performance Testing, utilizing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, and Gatling to simulate traffic, identify bottlenecks, and ensure system reliability.
• Strong full‑stack development and testing experience, including hands‑on work with Angular, React Native, Android Native, iOS Native, REST APIs (with Apigee), SpringBoot, and event‑driven systems like Confluent Kafka.
• Deep knowledge of Performance Monitoring, Debugging, and Observability, actively using tools like Splunk, Splunk Observability, New Relic, and Log Rocket for root‑cause analysis.
• Proven ability to lead and review a comprehensive QA and Performance strategy, identify gaps, and drive improvements across a development team.
• Experience leveraging AI capabilities to enhance automation processes, generate test data, and improve overall testing efficiency.
• Expertise with Agile methodologies, CI/CD pipelines (DevSecOps), and seamlessly integrating both functional automated testing and continuous performance testing into the development lifecycle.
• Experience testing and monitoring in a secure public cloud environment, preferably AWS, including the use of AWS Monitoring tools like CloudWatch and Performance Insights.
• Experience testing across diverse data and infrastructure layers, including relational, object‑oriented, NoSQL, and in‑memory databases, as well as content management systems (Drupal) and CDNs (Akamai/F5).
• The ability to coach, mentor, and influence other engineers to adopt a “quality‑first” and “performance‑driven” mindset.

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on technology experience, with a significant focus on both software development and test automation.
• A proven self‑starter with the demonstrated ability to own technical decisions and lead initiatives.
• Excellent presentation and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts related to quality and automation to a broad audience.
• The ability to handle multiple priorities simultaneously, combined with strong self‑motivation and excellent organizational skills.

What You’ll Gain

We offer a variety of ways to support your best physical, emotional, financial, and social well‑being. For more information on our benefit offerings, visit our benefits page: https://careers.bluecrossma.org/us/en/benefits. We provide a comprehensive package including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and a suite of well‑being benefits to eligible employees.

Minimum Education Requirements

High school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above.

Location

Boston

Time Type

Full time

Salary Range

$126,000.00 – $154,000.00. The posting range is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The range may be modified in the future. Variable pay may also be available. Note: No amount of pay is considered wages or compensation until earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the company’s sole discretion until paid and may be modified at the company’s sole discretion.