Senior Quality Software Engineer

Job Family IT - Development About Us At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.

We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs. Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.
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Job Description Summary The Senior Quality 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 Dev Ops teams to ensure software reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement throughout the development lifecycle.

Job Description Responsibilities
* 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 Dev Ops 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.
* 3 years of experience working with modern distributed applications, databases, and microservices.
* 3 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 Spec Flow.
* Performance & Reliability:
Meter, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Splunk.
* CI/CD & Dev Ops
* Experience (3 years) with Git, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops, Docker, Kubernetes, and Open Shift within CI/CD pipelines.
* Cloud & Data Platforms
* Experience (3 years) testing applications deployed in AWS and/or Azure, including EC2, ECS, S3, Azure VMs,…