Intermediate Quality Software Engineer

The Intermediate Software Engineer is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for designing, implementing, and executing high-quality testing and automation solutions across Transamerica’s technology ecosystem. This role emphasizes test automation, CI/CD integration, and modern quality engineering practices for cloud-native, distributed systems. The Senior Quality Software Engineer collaborates closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to ensure software reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement throughout the development lifecycle.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test solutions aligned with 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, performing root-cause analysis as needed.
• Collaborate with DevOps 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
• Three years of experience working with modern distributed applications, databases, and microservices.
• Three years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering, including automated and manual testing.

Technical Skills

Programming & Architecture

Proficiency in .NET/C# and/or Java with Spring Framework.

Working knowledge of object-oriented and functional programming, service-oriented and microservices architecture, dependency injection, and core design patterns.

Automation, Testing & Observability Tooling

Test Automation Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman, REST-assured, NUnit, JUnit.

BDD frameworks: Cucumber or SpecFlow.

Performance & Reliability: Meter, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk.

CI/CD & DevOps

Experience (3 years) with Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift within CI/CD pipelines.

Cloud & Data Platforms

Experience (3 years) testing applications deployed in AWS and/or Azure, including EC2, ECS, S3, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Data Factory, and SQL Data Warehouse.

Exposure to infrastructure-as-code such as ARM Templates.

UI & Web Technologies

Experience (3 years) with Angular, React, or Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and AJAX.

AI-Driven Development (Preferred)

Exposure to AI-assisted development and testing practices to improve test creation, defect analysis, and quality insights.

Experience with Kiro for AI-driven development or testing is a plus.

Preferred Qualifications

Cloud certifications such as AWS or Microsoft Azure.

Experience in financial services or regulated industries.

Working Conditions

• Hybrid-Office Environment (Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays)
• Work outside of normal business hours may be required
  Occasional Travel

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $73,000-97,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion.

Applicants must possess legal authorization to work for our company in the U.S. without the need for immigration, sponsorship or otherwise serving as an employer of record for immigration employment purposes.

At this time, this role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, Denver, Cedar Rapids). Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

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