SDET, Backend

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

Learn more about us and our work at quanata.com

Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

Quanata (San Francisco, CA) seeks a SDET, Backend to join our team, which is making a huge impact by delivering new-age insurance solutions to modern society. The SDET, Backend will ensure that API components of the backend work according to customer needs. Specific duties include: follow agile methodologies and participate in scrum meetings and software quality audits for all the phases of SDLC; responsible for test creation, testing a large module or a large component and designing a feature, set of features, or whole feature area; perform business requirement analysis by thoroughly understanding Project Design Document and Business Requirement Document; develop scalable and robust test automation frameworks and scripts using Python, Pytest, BDD frameworks, and PyCharm; execute integration, regression, and performance testing using industry standard tools; research new or better alternate automated testing tools; extensively use TestRail Test Management tool or equivalent to maintain the test suites, manage the automation test results and analyze the test failures; work independently and collaborate across teams to drive quality initiatives and lead detailed software quality discussions; demonstrate clarity of thought designing end to end test scenarios to work through limited information and vague problem definitions; mentor other quality engineers; and other duties as assigned. Option to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.

Position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, or a closely related field of study, plus 5 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Manager - Projects, QA Engineer, AEM and Content QA Lead, Software Engineer, or similar position. Must have 4 years of experience with each of the following: working with Backend/API; solving problems and working with specific technical topics and assignments; breaking down

problems and identifying scenarios to provide end to end test coverage. Must have 3 years of experience working with each of the following: Test Rail or Test Management Tool, Jira, Confluence, and Python programing and scripting; Linux, databases as SQL or Postgresql, and Shell scripting. Must have 2 years of experience: working with Kubernetes, Docker, Github; and integrating testing artifacts with CI/CD pipeline. Must also have 1 year of experience working with AWS. Option to work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. Salary: $222,962/yr.

Full time position. Apply by submitting your resumes to submitresume@quanata.com, reference Job ID: SDET, Backend in the subject line.

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 Udemy 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. Occasional travel may be required for team meetings or company gatherings. 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 - 3PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

#LI-DNI

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://www.sf.gov/sites/https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/FCO%20poster2020_0.pdf

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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