Senior Software Engineer, Test

About Ethos

Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.

About the Role

As a software engineer in test you will care about the quality of products along with velocity of development. You will not only drive the path for our testing infrastructure, automation testing but also deeply care about the developer productivity and CI/CD. If you should be passionate about your work and relentless about quality and automation, you will fit right in.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Be a strong quality advocate, collaborating closely with software engineers, designers, and product managers, etc. to release life-changing products


• Design and deliver risk-based test plans for new features and functionality, choosing the right method of testing for each situation or phase (scenario, exploratory, scripted, manual, automated, etc.)


• Help ensure your vertical's releases adhere to deadlines while not compromising on quality


• Pair with software engineers to identify coverage gaps, automate repeated tasks, and build regression test coverage through existing or new infrastructure


• Be a reliable, friendly source of feedback on new functionality, features, and process changes


• Awe your team by uncovering or better yet preventing corner case defects

Qualifications and Skills:

• A minimum of 5 years of software development or test framework development experience


• Proficient in at least one programming/scripting language (e.g. Javascript, Java, Python).


• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure tools (e.g. AWS/GCP, etc.).


• Experience with hands-on automation framework development: TestNG/Cypress/Selenium/Rest Assured/Cucumber/Jest etc.


• Expertise on test-driven development, developing different levels of automated tests, such as unit tests, integration tests, and functional tests


• Self-directed, deeply curious and you take action on your great ideas


• Detail oriented and have amazing communication skills; explaining technical problems succinctly and clearly


• Willingness to challenge existing practices in order to make them even better

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Don’t meet every single requirement? If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

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