Intermediate Quality Software Engineer

Job Overview

Intermediate Software Engineer – hands‑on technical contributor focused on test automation, CI/CD integration, and quality engineering practices for cloud‑native, distributed systems at Transamerica.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions using 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; perform root‑cause analysis as needed.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops 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.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Three years of experience with modern distributed applications, databases, and microservices.
• Three years of hands‑on experience in software quality engineering, including automated and manual testing.
• Proficiency in .NET/C# and/or Java with Spring Framework.
• Working knowledge of object‑oriented, functional programming, service‑oriented and microservices architecture, dependency injection, and core design patterns.
• Experience with test automation tools:
  Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST‑assured, NUnit, JUnit.
• Experience with BDD frameworks:
  Cucumber or Spec Flow.
• Experience with performance and reliability monitoring:
  Meter, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Splunk.
• Three years of experience with Git, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Docker, Kubernetes, and Open Shift CI/CD pipelines.
• Three years of experience testing applications in AWS and/or Azure (EC2, ECS, S3, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse).
• Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code (e.g., ARM Templates).
• Three years of experience with Angular, React, or Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and AJAX.

• Cloud certifications (AWS or Microsoft Azure).
• Experience in financial services or regulated industries.
• Exposure to AI‑assisted development and testing practices (e.g., Kiro).

Hybrid‑Office environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays). Work outside normal business hours may be required; occasional travel