Intermediate Quality Software Engineer

About the role

The Intermediate Software Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and executing high-quality testing and automation solutions across Transamerica’s technology ecosystem. This role emphasizes test automation, CI/CD integration, and modern quality engineering practices for cloud-native, distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions aligned with established quality standards and best practices.
• Execute functional, regression, API, and integration testing for complex applications and microservices.
• Contribute to test strategy and test plan development for assigned products or platforms.
• Develop and maintain automated tests integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Participate in code reviews and design discussions to ensure testability and quality.
• Identify, document, and track defects, performing root-cause analysis as needed.
• Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure reliable test execution in cloud and containerized environments.
• Support performance, reliability, and security testing efforts.
• Communicate test results, risks, and quality insights to technical stakeholders.
• Continuously improve test coverage, automation reliability, and developer feedback loops.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Three years of experience working with modern distributed applications, databases, and microservices.
• Three years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering, including automated and manual testing.

Technical Skills

• Programming & Architecture: Proficiency in .NET/C# and/or Java with Spring Framework. Working knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming, service-oriented and microservices architecture, dependency injection, and core design patterns.
• Automation, Testing & Observability: Tooling Test Automation (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST-assured, NUnit, JUnit). BDD frameworks: Cucumber or SpecFlow. Performance & Reliability: Meter, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk. CI/CD & DevOps: (Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift) within CI/CD pipelines.
• Cloud & Data Platforms: Experience testing applications deployed in AWS and/or Azure, including EC2, ECS, S3, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Data Factory, and SQL Data Warehouse. Exposure to infrastructure-as-code such as ARM Templates.
• UI & Web Technologies: Experience with Angular, React, or Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and AJAX.
• AI-Driven Development (Preferred): Exposure to AI-assisted development and testing practices to improve test creation, defect analysis, and quality insights. Experience with Kiro for AI-driven development or testing is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

• Cloud certifications such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries.

Pay

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $73,000-97,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law. Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Schedule

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, Denver, Cedar Rapids).