Senior Quality Engineer - Payments Mobile & UI Automation (Hybrid)

About Geico

At GEICO, we are not just an insurance company; we are a technology-driven organization that is transforming the insurance landscape. Our mission is to leverage cutting-edge technology to deliver exceptional experiences for our customers and create innovative solutions that redefine the industry.

About The Team

The Billing and Payments teams at GEICO own the tools, infrastructure, data, reporting, analytics, and services required to deliver seamless billing and payment experiences for customers and partners. The platform supports financial transactions and customer interactions at scale, with a focus on efficiency, accuracy, customer satisfaction, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute outside-in black-box test strategies that validate end-to-end customer, partner, and business payment flows without relying on implementation details.
• Build and maintain reliable automation suites across API, integration, UI, and end-to-end flows, with clear coverage, low flakiness, and actionable failure signals for engineering teams.
• Conduct performance, load, and reliability testing using tools such as k6, JMeter, or LoadRunner to identify bottlenecks, validate system behavior under scale, and provide actionable findings to engineering teams.
• Partner with developers, product managers, and platform teams to move testing earlier in the delivery lifecycle by integrating automated quality gates, test data, observability signals, and validation checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools to improve test design, test data generation, failure analysis, and automation productivity while maintaining strong engineering judgment and quality standards.
• Stay current with quality engineering practices, tools, and automation patterns, and apply them to improve test coverage, reliability, and engineering productivity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on quality engineering or software test engineering experience, including risk-based test strategy, outside-in black-box testing, automation suite development, API and integration validation, and CI/CD-based quality gates.
• Proven ability to build and maintain reliable automated test suites across API, integration, UI, and end-to-end flows using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, TestNG, Postman, REST Assured, Cypress, or similar frameworks.
• Strong programming skills in Java, Python, or JavaScript for automation.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and judgment to assess quality risk in complex customer or business flows.
• Experience in payments and checkout.

Benefits

The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.

This is a Hybrid role working out of the following offices: Bethesda, MD, Richardson, TX, Palo Alto, CA.

Annual Salary: $100,000.00 - $215,000.00

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