Senior SDET, Back End [Remote-US]

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.

Additional Details: 

• 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.