Senior SDET, Back End [Remote-US]

Quanata, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 198,000 - 281,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Paid time off

Parental leave

Professional development funds

Home office stipend

Job summary

Quanata, LLC is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer in Test to elevate the quality of insurance tech services and workflows. This hands-on role focuses on backend testing, scalable automation, and owning test strategies across microservices in cloud environments.

You will design automation frameworks, validate API contracts, and mentor engineers while contributing to CI/CD pipelines and performance testing in a remote-first US-based team.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Substantial hands-on experience developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, with the 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 the ability to trace data and failures across multiple services.
• Ability to turn incomplete requirements into meaningful tests and communicate technical findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools that serve multiple QA and engineering teams.
• Own test strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and end-to-end business workflows, balancing component, contract, integration, and system-level coverage.
• 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 reliable automated checks in continuous integration and delivery pipelines, improving feedback speed and reducing flaky tests.
• Validate cloud-hosted services and deployment configurations; troubleshoot failures using application logs, service telemetry, and infrastructure evidence.
• Assess performance and resilience risks, design targeted tests, and collaborate with engineers to address identified weaknesses.
• Review requirements and architecture, communicate quality risks, and mentor engineers while independently driving complex testing work.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Test automation

Backend APIs

Distributed systems

Programming

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

Automation frameworks

Cloud platforms

CI/CD tools

Job description

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.
As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

We’re looking for an accomplished, well-rounded Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (Sr SDET) to help improve the quality and reliability of services that support insurance products and business workflows.

This hands-on role requires deep backend testing experience, strong programming ability, and ownership of scalable test automation.

The individual will validate service behavior and cross-system interactions, strengthen automated delivery checks, and help teams identify defects early in cloud-hosted, distributed environments.

Your Day-to-Day

• Design, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools that serve multiple QA and engineering teams.
• Own test strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and end-to-end business workflows, balancing component, contract, integration, and system-level coverage.
• 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 reliable automated checks in continuous integration and delivery pipelines, improving feedback speed and reducing flaky tests.
• Validate cloud-hosted services and deployment configurations; troubleshoot failures using application logs, service telemetry, and infrastructure evidence.
• Assess performance and resilience risks, design targeted tests, and collaborate with engineers to address identified weaknesses.
• Review requirements and architecture, communicate quality risks, and mentor engineers while independently driving complex testing work.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

About You

• 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.
• Substantial hands-on experience developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.
• Strong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, with the 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 the ability to trace data and failures across multiple services.
• Ability to turn incomplete requirements into meaningful tests and communicate technical findings clearly.

Bonus Points

• Property and casualty insurance experience is preferred, 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.

Salary: $198,000 to $281,000

*Please note that the final salary offered will be determined based on the selected candidate's skills, and experience, as well as the internal salary structure at Quanata. Our aim is to offer a competitive and equitable compensation package that reflects the candidate's expertise and contributions to our organization.

• Benefits : We provide a wide variety of health, wellness and other benefits.These include medical, dental, vision, life insurance and supplemental income plans for you and your dependents, a Headspace app subscription, monthly wellness allowance and a 401(k) Plan with a company match.
• Work from Home Equipment : Given our virtual environment— in order to set you up for success at home, a one-time payment of $2K will be provided to cover the purchase of in-home office equipment and furniture at your discretion. Also, our teams work with MacBook Pros, which we will deliver to you fully provisioned prior to your first day.
• Paid Time Off : All employees accrue four weeks of PTO in their first year of employment. New parents receive twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.
• Personal and Professional Development : We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required. Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

If you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.