What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, QA position at SmartAsset?
Senior Software Engineer, QA
at SmartAsset
Remote, Contiguous United States
About SmartAsset:
SmartAsset is an online destination for consumer-focused financial information and advice, whose mission is helping people make smart financial decisions, reaching over an estimated 59 million people each month (as of January 2025) through our educational content and personalized calculators and tools. To extend our mission, we also operate SmartAsset Advisor Marketing Platform (AMP), which helps connect consumers with fiduciary financial advisors. SmartAsset has earned recognition on the Inc. 5000 (#2574 in 2023) and Deloitte Technology Fast 500™ (#250 in 2022) lists. Currently, SmartAsset ranks on Y Combinator’s list of Top 100 Companies. A successful $110 million Series D funding round in 2021 valued the company at over $1 billion.
*Other than application and licensing fees, SmartAsset did not provide compensation for the aforementioned awards.
About the Job:
We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join the QA team. The QA team at SmartAsset aims to improve the stability and quality of our applications by building scalable automated solutions and providing a well-tested environment for developers to freely and quickly make changes. Your role on the team will be to lead the testing efforts of the development team by creating testing solutions and contributing to an existing but new automation suite.
This is a unique opportunity to work with a team in the process of making many transformative changes to testing across the organization. You will be working on continuously developing automation in an environment that encourages improvement and innovation.
The ideal candidate is a testing leader, collaborative, and is able to adapt quickly to a changing environment.
Responsibilities:
- Support the testing needs of an Agile Scrum team responsible for critical lead management services.
- Develop new automated tests for both frontend and backend systems.
- Collaborate with other QA team members to build a standardized QA suite and align on various testing procedures.
- Migrate existing Selenium automation tests to Playwright.
- Work closely with developers and product members to understand the testing needs of the team.
- Identify opportunities to adopt new technologies or team processes that can improve the quality and efficiency of the software we build and deliver.
Skills/Experience you have:
- 3 years of experience working on QA teams with a heavy focus on automation.
- Strong experience with an automated testing framework such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
- Proven experience in developing automated suites with Java and TypeScript (TypeScript required).
- Knowledge of Git or other source control tools.
- Familiarity with testing APIs through Postman or other API testing tools.
- Experience with developing load and stress tests.
- Experience supporting development teams with testing for both frontend and backend components.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and familiarity working in an Agile environment with a product and development team.
- Experience in test management tools such as TestRails or Xray (Qase preferred).
- Ability to build test plans and support the team with both manual and automated testing.
- Enthusiasm for working in a startup environment and the ability to be cross-functional.
- Passion for technology and working with a team to continuously improve each other, our tools, and our processes.
Skills/Experience preferred:
- Experience migrating automation from Selenium to Playwright
Physical Requirements:
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to communicate via phone calls and/or video conferences (mainly for concierge and sales roles)
Available Benefits and Perks:
- All roles at SmartAsset are currently and will remain remote- flexibility to work from anywhere in the Contiguous US.
- Medical, Dental, Vision - multiple packages available based on your individualized needs
- Life/AD&D Insurance - basic coverage at 100% company paid, additional supplemental available
- Supplemental Short-term and Long-term Disability
- FSA: Medical and Dependent Care
- 401K
- Equity packages for each role
- Time Off: Vacation, Sick and Parental Leave
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
- Financial Literacy Mentoring Program
- Pet Insurance
- Home Office Stipend
SmartAsset is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please contact us at Recruiting@smartasset.com.
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, Rhode Island, Washington, and New York City residents* Salary range: $117,000-$176,500 per year RSUs benefits.
Salary at SmartAsset is determined based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location within the contiguous United States.
Salary : $117,000 - $176,500
