Senior SDET - Platform [Remote-US]

The posting, as Quanata wrote it

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About Us

Quanata is on a mission to help ensure a better world through context-based insurance solutions. We are an exceptional, customer centered team with a passion for creating innovative technologies, digital products, and brands. We blend some of the best Silicon Valley talent and cutting-edge thinking with the long-term backing of leading insurer, State Farm.

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Our Team

Quanata, LLC is an insurance technology innovation company that engineers advanced risk prediction and prevention solutions, develops risk-focused acquisition capabilities, and builds/supports a full-stack, flexible, digital & increasingly AI-native insurance platform. This helps our primary clients, State Farm and HiRoad Assurance Company, adapt to evolving market needs. Quanata, LLC is wholly owned and funded by State Farm.

As a company that prioritizes an inclusive and positive culture, we believe the core of our success is in hiring talented people — across disciplines — who want to help us make a quantifiable impact.

The Role

We’re looking for an accomplished, well-rounded Senior Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help build the shared quality engineering platforms, tools, and automation frameworks that enable our QA and engineering teams to deliver reliable, secure software.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of software development, quality engineering, security testing, and AI enablement. You’ll turn common testing challenges into reusable solutions, develop and evaluate AI-assisted testing capabilities, and integrate quality and security checks directly into engineering workflows.

You’ll collaborate across QA, Engineering, and Security to create solutions teams can trust and adopt at scale. Just as importantly, you’ll help shape shared testing practices, mentor others, and measure how our tools improve coverage, reduce manual effort, and accelerate feedback.

Your Day-to-Day

• Design, build, test, and maintain shared automation frameworks, internal services, and developer tools that serve multiple QA and engineering teams.
• Partner with QA and engineering teams to identify common testing needs and validate functionality, integration, reliability, performance, and usability across application and platform layers.
• Build and evaluate AI-assisted and agent-based testing capabilities using repeatable evaluations, human oversight, appropriate tool permissions, and fallback behavior for unreliable results.
• Develop and automate security testing for APIs, applicatio

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twelve weeks of fully paid parental leave which may be taken within one year after the birth and/or adoption of a child. The twelve weeks is applicable to both birthing and non-birthing parent.

• Personal and Professional Development: We’re committed to investing in and helping our people grow personally and professionally. All employees receive up to $5000 each year for professional learning, continuing education and career development. All team members also receive LinkedIn Learning subscriptions and access to multiple different coaching opportunities through BetterUp.
• Location : We are a remote-first company for most positions so you may work from anywhere you like in the U.S, excluding U.S. territories. For most positions, occasional travel may be requested or encouraged but is not required . Some positions might require travel per the job description provided to the employee. Employees based in the San Francisco Bay Area or in Providence, Rhode Island may commute to one of our local offices as desired.
• Hours : We maintain core meeting hours from 9AM - 2PM Pacific time for collaborating with team members across all time zones.

Quanata, LLC is an equal opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

If you are a San Francisco resident, please read the City and County of San Francisco's Fair Chance Ordinance notice. https://www.sf.gov/sites/https://www.sf.gov/sites/default/files/2022-12/FCO%20poster2020_0.pdf

This role is employed by Quanata, LLC which is a separate company in the State Farm family of companies.

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