Staff Software Engineer – Testing Tools and Frameworks

GEICO is an insurance company seeking an experienced Staff Software Engineer to join its Testing Tools and Frameworks team. The role focuses on building and extending testing frameworks, libraries, tools, reporting, and analytics, while improving testing accessibility across the engineering organization. The engineer will also prototype testing approaches, develop utilities, mentor junior engineers, and support continuous delivery practices.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with business and engineering to understand testing complexity and translate the testing needs to appropriate testing capabilities exposed by tools, frameworks, libraries
• Have a deep technical understanding of test frameworks and when appropriate, develop extensions, plugins, fixtures, and other similar layers to improve the Test Framework capabilities
• Prototype new test vectors, approaches, tools, or methods
• Bridge the gaps between teams and their services by building new libraries
• Building new tools such as Excel Addons, Data sanitation services, CLIs, and anything else that could be useful to solve a particular challenge
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends and technologies to ensure our continuous delivery processes remain cutting-edge

Requirements:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a team environment
• 8+ years of experience in software testing, performance/load testing
• Deep familiarity with test framework internals or advanced topics in Pytest, Playwright, TestNG
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Node, Java, Python
• Strong proficiency in Linux system administration and shell scripting
• Experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Bachelor's degree or master's degree in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience
• At this time, GEICO will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position
• (highly desirable) Experience developing large scale performance test rigs for K6