The Lead Quality Software Engineer is a senior, hands-on technical leader responsible for defining, implementing, and continuously improving software quality practices across Transamerica’s technology ecosystem. This role emphasizes test automation, CI/CD integration, AI-enabled quality engineering, and enterprise-scale testing for cloud-native, distributed systems. The Lead Quality Software Engineer serves as a subject matter expert (SME) in modern testing strategies, mentors engineers, and drives a culture of quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across the full software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise-grade testing frameworks and standards with an automation-first, shift-left focus.
  • Define and document best practices for automated testing, API testing, performance, security, and test data management.
  • Perform hands-on quality engineering including test strategy development, automated test creation, exploratory testing, and defect analysis.
  • Validate distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
  • Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions to ensure testability and maintainability.
  • Lead the design and evolution of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Embed automated quality gates into build and deployment workflows.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable test execution in cloud and containerized environments.
  • Mentor engineers on automation frameworks, tooling, and modern testing methodologies.
  • Communicate quality risks, metrics, and results to technical and business stakeholders.
  • Define, track, and analyze quality metrics including automation coverage, defect trends, and pipeline health.
  • Participate in enterprise initiatives to define and evolve Transamerica-wide quality standards.


Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 5 years of experience with modern distributed applications, microservices, and database systems.
  • 5 years of hands-on experience in software quality engineering with a strong emphasis on automation.

  • Programming & Architecture

  • Strong proficiency in .NET/C# and/or Java/Spring Framework.
  • Advanced understanding 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, Cucumber, SpecFlow.
  • Performance & Reliability (3–5 years): JMeter, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk.

  • CI/CD & DevOps

  • CI/CD and DevOps enablement (5–8 years) using Git, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

  • Cloud & Data Platforms

  • 4–6 years testing applications in AWS and/or Azure including EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, Azure VMs, Blob Storage, Cosmos DB, Event Hubs, Data Factory, and SQL Data Warehouse.
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code such as ARM Templates.

  • UI & Web Technologies

  • 4–6 years working with Angular, React, or Vue.js, ASP.NET MVC, HTTP, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and AJAX.

  • AI-Driven Development & Intelligent Automation

  • Experience applying AI-assisted and AI-driven development practices to improve software quality, test effectiveness, and delivery efficiency, including test generation, defect analysis, and quality insights.
  • Experience with Kiro for AI-driven development and testing is a plus.


Preferred Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in a technical field.
  • Knowledge of the financial services industry.
  • Cloud certifications such as AWS or Microsoft Azure


Working Conditions

  • Hybrid Office Environment
  • Work outside of normal business hours may be required
  • Occasional Travel <10%

Compensation

The Salary for this position generally ranges between $110,000 - $140,000 annually. Please note that the salary range is a good faith estimate for this position and actual starting pay is determined by several factors including qualifications, experience, geography, work location designation (in-office, hybrid, remote) and operational needs. Salary may vary above and below the stated amounts, as permitted by applicable law.

Additionally, this position is typically eligible for an Annual Bonus based on the Company Bonus Plan/Individual Performance and is at the Company’s discretion. 

Applicants must possess legal authorization to work for our company in the U.S. without the need for immigration, sponsorship or otherwise serving as an employer of record for immigration employment purposes. At this time, this role is not eligible for immigration-related employment authorization sponsorship.

This is a hybrid position requiring three days in office per week in one of our hub locations (Philadelphia, Denver, Cedar Rapids).  Relocation assistance will not be provided for this position.

Disclaimer:
Beware of fake job offers!

We’ve been alerted to scammers impersonating Transamerica recruiters, particularly for remote positions. Please note:

  • We will never request personal information such as ID or payment for equipment upfront.
  • Official offers are sent via DocuSign following a verbal offer—not through text or email.


This job description is not a contract of employment nor for any specific job responsibilities. The Company may change, add to, remove, or revoke the terms of this job description at its discretion. Managers may assign other duties and responsibilities as needed. In the event an employee or applicant requests or requires an accommodation to perform job functions, the applicable HR Business Partner should be contacted to evaluate the accommodation request.