Senior Software Engineer in Test - Affirm

HYPR; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Great work-life balance

Career growth opportunities

Collaboration with industry giants

Job summary

HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, seeks a Senior Software Engineer in Test to craft high-quality test suites and shape testing practices across mobile, desktop, and SaaS platforms. You will collaborate with development teams to strengthen automated coverage, optimize environments, and contribute to CI/CD pipelines in a hybrid NYC setting.

The role emphasizes performance testing, microservices troubleshooting, and AI-enabled development workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of automation experience.
• Experience in a Continuous Delivery environment with CI/CD pipelines.
• Interest in AI-assisted development workflows.
• BDD/Selenium automation across mobile drivers, BrowserStack, or similar.
• Leading end-to-end performance testing for a large-scale SaaS platform.
• Troubleshooting and optimizing complex microservices to identify latency bottlenecks.
• Experience testing SaaS platforms or distributed systems.
• Experience with Git Flow and Jira/GitLab/Artifactory.

Responsibilities

• Break up complex features into automatable tests and scalable testing solutions.
• Test mobile and desktop apps, SaaS services, platform scalability and migrations.
• Partner with engineering to enable CD pipelines with strong automated test coverage.
• Learn new systems quickly and communicate challenges clearly.
• Participate in the full development life cycle including requirements and code reviews.
• Create and run performance test plans and automation scripts.
• Examine performance results and document CPU, memory, and response metrics.

Skills

Automation testing

CI/CD

Selenium

BDD

Git Flow

GitLab

Jira

Artifactory

BrowserStack

Performance testing

Microservices

SaaS testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

BrowserStack

GitLab

Artifactory

Jira

CI/CD tooling

Job description

HYPR, the Identity Assurance Company, helps organizations create trust in the identity lifecycle. We are a community of bold thinkers and energetic doers who imagined a brand new approach to identity security and, at the same time, are eliminating a pervasive and persistent 60-year old problem – the password. Since being founded in 2014, the company has grown to be the premium provider of authentication security to marquee brands around the globe and are quickly becoming the recognized leader in Identity Assurance. We are looking for exceptional people with the ambition and the will to positively change the world. If that sounds like you, join us on our mission to create a passwordless world and secure the identity lifecycle.

Your Role and Impact

HYPR is looking for a Senior Software Engineer in Test with a passion for customer experience. Your role will be working closely with our development team on building out high-quality test suites. Your expertise in designing and implementing best practices and tooling for testing (including unit, functional, integration, system, and regression using both manual and automated processes) will be key to the success of the team.

What You will Do

• You will break up complex features into clear, automatable tests and build testing solutions that scale well
• You will test mobile and desktop applications, SaaS services, platform scalability and database migrations
• Partner with engineering teams to enable our Continuous Delivery pipelines to have strong automated test coverage, stable environment setup/teardown, and reliable quality gates
• You will learn new systems and integrations quickly and be able to communicate the challenges and advantages clearly
• You will participate in the full development life cycle, adding your insights to requirements, designs and code reviews
• Create and run performance test plans, scenarios, and automation scripts based on requirements to evaluate application performance.
• Examine performance test results, identify bottlenecks, and document findings, including CPU, memory, and response time metrics.

What You have Done

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of study (Master's preferred)
• Strong CS fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms
• 8+ years of automation experience
• Experience working in a Continuous Delivery environment—frequent releases, automated testing gates, CI/CD pipelines, environment automation
• Interest in or experience with AI-assisted development workflows, as HYPR is moving toward an AI-native engineering model
• Experience with BDD/Selenium automation across mobile drivers, BrowserStack, or similar
• Experience with leading the end-to-end performance testing strategy for a large-scale SaaS platform
• Experience with troubleshooting and optimizing complex microservices architecture to identify root causes of latency and system bottlenecks
• Experience testing SaaS platforms or complex distributed systems
• Experience with Git Flow and tools such as Gitlab, Artifactory and Jira

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of identity management systems, such as MS Entra or similar
• Experience testing Windows and Mac desktop applications
• Experience testing with virtual machines
• Good working knowledge of cross-browser and cross-device testing

If you enjoy solving difficult engineering challenges and want to help define the future of secure authentication, we’d love to talk.

The Benefits of Working with HYPR

• Long-Term stability within a high-growth sector within identity access automation.
• Our team members have a broad range of talents and skills from different technology sectors. You’ll be joining a team of All Stars who consistently deliver the highest quality in all areas of customer service and success.
• An organization with a great work life balance. Many of our employees have families and responsibilities outside of the office that they are able to easily meet.
• A mission driven culture. At HYPR you will never be spinning your wheels on tasks that won’t make an impact. Everything we develop is cutting edge and vital to the success and security of our clients.
• An emphasis on collaboration and access to giants in the industry. We achieve our best because we employ the best.

Note:

This position is hybrid - at least 2 days a week at our NYC office.

H1B/Visa support is not currently available for this specific position.

Base Salary: $140,000 - $160,000

Our salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our size and industry, and are one part of our total compensation package that also includes meaningful equity, benefits, and other opportunities at HYPR. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to other HYPRions. We expect the majority of the candidates who are offered roles at HYPR to fall healthily throughout the range based on these factors.

As the premium provider of identity assurance, HYPR is committed to preventing identity fraud by safely and accurately verifying the identities of our employees. Accordingly, all new employees are required to participate in an automated identity verification process, which includes document verification, location detection, and facial recognition, on their first day of employment with the Company. To learn more about this identity verification process, please contact [e-mail].

HYPR is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and will not discriminate against an applicant or employee based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state and/or local laws. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on HYPR. Please inform [e-mail] if you need assistance completing HYPR’s application process.