Staff Software Engineer – Testing Tools and Frameworks

Why Join GEICO?

At GEICO, we offer a rewarding career where your ambitions are met with endless possibilities. Every day we honor our iconic brand by offering quality coverage to millions of customers and being there when they need us most. We thrive on relentless innovation to exceed our customers' expectations while making a real impact on local communities nationwide. Founded in 1936, GEICO is a member of the Berkshire Hathaway family of companies and one of the largest auto insurers in the United States. When you join our company, we want you to feel valued, supported, and proud to work here. That's why we offer the GEICO Pledge: Great Company, Great Culture, Great Rewards, and Great Careers.

GEICO is seeking an experienced and highly skilled Staff Software Engineer to join our Testing Tools and Frameworks team. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of building and maintaining testing frameworks, libraries and tools, test run times, reporting and analytics, and making testing accessible and intuitive for engineers across Geico. The ideal candidate has deep technical expertise in the internals of test frameworks such as Pytest, Playwright, TestNG, and knows how to build and extend test frameworks capabilities and knows the challenges and effective strategies for rolling out common test frameworks across hundreds of engineers.

Responsibilities

• Partner with business and engineering to understand testing complexity and translate the testing needs to appropriate testing capabilities exposed by tools, frameworks, libraries.
• Have a deep technical understanding of test frameworks and when appropriate, develop extensions, plugins, fixtures, and other similar layers to improve the Test Framework capabilities.
• Prototype new test vectors, approaches, tools, or methods.
• Bridge the gaps between teams and their services by building new libraries.
• Building new tools such as Excel Addons, Data sanitation services, CLIs, and anything else that could be useful to solve a particular challenge.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our continuous delivery processes remain cutting-edge.

Qualifications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• 8+ years of experience in software testing, performance/load testing.
• Deep familiarity with test framework internals or advanced topics in Pytest, Playwright, TestNG.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Node, Java, Python.
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration and shell scripting.
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration (highly desirable).
• Experience developing large scale performance test rigs for K6.
• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience.

Pay

Annual Salary $105,000.00 - $260,000.00