Software Engineer - QA

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Employment Type: Full-time
• Salary: Not specified

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 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.