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When applying for a position online you are at risk of being targeted by malicious actors looking for personal data. Please be aware we will only reach out via email using the domain quanata.com. Anything that does not match those domains should be ignored and considered a security risk.\nAbout Us\nQuanata 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.\nLearn more about us and our work at quanata.com\nOur Team\nQuanata, 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.\nAs 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.\nThe Role\nWe’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.\nThis hands-on role requires deep backend testing experience, strong programming ability, and ownership of scalable test automation.\nThe individual will validate service behavior and cross-system interactions, strengthen automated delivery checks, and help teams identify defects early in cloud-hosted, distributed environments.\nYour Day-to-Day\nDesign, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools that serve multiple QA and engineering teams.\nOwn test strategy and execution for backend APIs, microservices, and end-to-end business workflows, balancing component, contract, integration, and system-level coverage.\nDesign and extend code-based automation frameworks with reusable setup and cleanup, data-driven scenarios, dependency isolation, and clear failure reporting.\nValidate business rules, API contracts, data persistence, authorization, error handling, and compatibility across services.\nTest asynchronous processing and distributed-system failure conditions, including retries, duplicate events, partial failures, and delayed consistency.\nEstablish reliable automated checks in continuous integration and delivery pipelines, improving feedback speed and reducing flaky tests.\nValidate cloud-hosted services and deployment configurations; troubleshoot failures using application logs, service telemetry, and infrastructure evidence.\nAssess performance and resilience risks, design targeted tests, and collaborate with engineers to address identified weaknesses.\nReview requirements and architecture, communicate quality risks, and mentor engineers while independently driving complex testing work.\nPerform other related duties as assigned.\nAbout You\nBachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.\nTypically 6-8 years of software testing or engineering experience, including at least 3 years focused on backend APIs and service-based architectures.\nSubstantial hands-on experience developing test automation frameworks and integrating them into automated delivery pipelines.\nStrong proficiency in a general-purpose programming language, with the ability to design, review, and debug maintainable test code.\nDeep understanding of API testing, microservice interactions, service contracts, and distributed application behavior.\nAdvanced automation design skills, including test lifecycle management, parameterized execution, mocking, shared utilities, and parallel execution.\nPractical experience testing and troubleshooting public-cloud applications, including identity and permissions, networking, compute, storage, and messaging dependencies.\nExperience with continuous integration and delivery, source control, automated quality checks, and environment configuration.\nStrong database querying skills and the ability to trace data and failures across multiple services.\nAbility to turn incomplete requirements into meaningful tests and communicate technical findings clearly.\nBonus Points\nProperty and casualty insurance experience is preferred, including policy administration, billing, rating, claims, or related integrations.\nExperience testing event-driven architectures and complex third-party integrations.\nExperience with performance, resilience, and service-level security testing.\nDemonstrated improvement of automation reliability, execution time, or defect detection.\nSalary:$198,000 to $281,000\n*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.\nAdditional Details: \n 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.\nWork 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.\nPaid 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.\nPersonal 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.\nLocation: 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. \nHours: We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones. \nQuanata, 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.\nIf 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\nThis role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.\nIf you require a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to your Talent Acquisition Partner for assistance.","description_format":"text","description_chars":8193,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":6,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Apple Macbook","Home office","Life insurance","Parental leave","Professional development"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Property & Casualty Insurance","InsurTech"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T18:17:16Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 2","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":5,"green_card_filings_12m":2,"median_offered_wage_usd":211071,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":1}],"liveness":{"score":65,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.75,"age_days":27,"expected_fill_days":39,"reasons":["conf:3","win:late"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":281000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/quanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/quanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T06:26:14Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11267,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":686713},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=686713"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fquanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fquanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fquanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/quanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fquanata-senior-sdet-back-end-remote-us"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":2192092}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"quanata.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":2192092},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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