Symetra has an exciting opportunity to join our Customer Relationship Management team as a Sr. Software Developer Leading Automation Testing!

With its headquarters in Bellevue, Washington, Symetra has over 2000 employees with more than $60 Billion in assets. Established in 1957, we are well positioned to execute on our growth plans.

At Symetra, we're focused on building solutions which can help more people gain financial freedom. We are disrupting the Insurance industry. We won the 2021 Gartner Eye on Innovation Award for Financial Services and the 2022 Celent Model Insurer Award. We're creating new products to redefine the industry, and we invite you to join us in the adventure! This is a unique opportunity to innovate and bring dependable solutions with delightful user experiences to our customers.

About the role

You will have the opportunity to be part of a collaborative team that supports our top Contact Center priorities. You will partner with others within a scrum team on all aspects of solution delivery. We are looking for developers who are passionate about delivering high quality software solutions and have a background in testing frameworks, modern JavaScript languages and native cloud development.

What you will do

• Create a test automation framework and drive efforts for test automation improvements.
• Collaborate with the team on manual testing and test case creation including edge scenarios.
• Design, build, and document reliable test and debug tools for yourself and other developers.
• Collaborate with developers to understand where test automation fits into the code under development.
• Identify and fix gaps within the testing suite with a goal towards an overall high percentage of automation.
• Support a shared responsibility model for maintaining automated tests.
• Support functional, performance, load, and end-to-end testing.
• Enable user analytics, logging, monitoring, and instrumentation for all services.
• Take part in agile events to refine, estimate and deliver application features.
• Collaborate with various team members on feature design, development, and testing.
• Participate and provide constructive feedback in design and code reviews.
• Build highly scalable APIs that are being continuously deployed and updated through an automated CI/CD pipeline.
• Troubleshoot and fix bugs.
• Maintain the security and integrity of the application software.
• Create and maintain technical documentation.

What we offer you

Benefits and Perks

We don’t take a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it comes to our employees. Our programs are designed to make your life better—both at work and at home.

• Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
• Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
• Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
• Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching

Want more details? Check out our Symetra Benefits Overview.

Salary Range: $97,400 - $162,400 plus eligibility for the company annual bonus program target of 10%.

Your experience and skills

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in test automation
• Experience building a test automation framework and creating test cases
• A successful track record of working within a team to launch enterprise products
• Comfortable with multiple automation testing categories including unit, API, end-to-end, regression, smoke, and performance

• Skilled in a major test automation tool such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright
• Experience with testing tools such as Postman

• Excellent design, problem solving and debugging skills
• Experience in one or more of JavaScript, Typescript, or Node.js
• Experience with API development
• Familiarity with DevOps practices
• Hands on experience in building scalable systems using containers/serverless in one or more of the cloud providers – AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience with CI/CD deployments, such as Azure DevOps
• Effective use of collaborative and productivity platforms such as Microsoft Teams
• Proactive with a strong sense of ownership and responsibility
• Strong collaboration and communication skills with technical and non-technical peers
• Strong problem solving and organizational skills
• Experience in agile methodologies

Preferred Credentials:

• Experience in Node.js and Typescript
• Experience developing modern serverless solutions on AWS
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines
• Experience with new solution design and architecture

We empower inclusion.

At Symetra, we aspire to be the most inclusive insurance company in the country we’re building a place where every employee feels valued, respected, and has opportunities to contribute. Inclusion is about recognizing our assumptions, considering multiple perspectives, and removing barriers.

We accept and celebrate diverse experiences, identities, and perspectives, because lifting each other up fuels thought and builds a stronger, more innovative company. We invite you to learn more about our efforts here.

Creating a world where more people have access to financial freedom

Symetra is a national financial services company dedicated to helping people achieve their financial goals and feel confident about the future. In our daily work, we’re guided by the principles of Value, Transparency and Sustainability. This means we provide products and services people need at a competitive price, we communicate clearly and openly so people understand what they’re buying, and we design products—and operate our company—to stand the test of time. We’re committed to showing up for our communities, lifting up our employees, and standing up for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Join our team and help us create a world where more people have access to financial freedom.

For more information about our careers visit:

www.symetra.com/careers

Work Authorization

Employer work visa sponsorship and support are not provided for this role. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States at hire and must maintain authorization to work in the United States throughout their employment with our company.

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