Automation Test Engineer (SDET) - Remote

Answer Financial is an Allstate company with 25+ years in the industry and one of the nation's largest and longest running personal lines insurance agencies. This is an excellent career position that offers you continued career growth, opportunity, and unlimited earning potential, and we are a remote, work from home company.

Answer Financial is seeking an Automation Test Engineer (SDET) to help drive quality, reliability, and speed across our digital platforms. This is a hands-on, engineering-focused role where you will design, build, and evolve test automation solutions that integrate directly into modern CI/CD pipelines.

You will act as a quality champion on the team, partnering closely with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps teams to ensure quality is built in from design through production. This position is a full-time, 100% remote role and offers the opportunity to influence quality practices at scale in a regulated, enterprise environment.

Essential Job Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for web applications, APIs, and backend services
• Build scalable automation for functional, regression, and integration testing
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable releases
• Treat test automation as production-grade software that is versioned, reviewed, monitored, and maintained
• Define and evolve test strategy for medium-to-high complexity initiatives
• Partner with engineering and product teams in an Agile environment
• Mentor engineers and testers on automation and quality best practices
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.
  
  

Education And Experience

• 3+ years of experience in test automation, SDET, or quality engineering roles
• Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Java, Python, JavaScript, or C# (or equivalent)
• Experience with test automation frameworks, such as: Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress (or equivalent)
• Experience testing web applications and APIs
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and automated test integration
• Experience working in Agile development environments (Jira, Version One, Rally or equivalent)
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence without formal authority
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, REST Assured, or Newman preferred
• Exposure to performance or load testing preferred
• Experience with Git and modern build systems preferred
• Familiarity with cloud-based test environments preferred
• Experience with BDD or TDD practices preferred
• Background in regulated or large enterprise environments preferred
• Utilizing AI to increase operational efficiencies preferred
  
  

What Success Looks Like

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• Automated tests are reliable, trusted, and consistently executed in CI/CD pipelines
• Manual regression testing is significantly reduced
• Defects are detected earlier in the development lifecycle
• Quality standards are consistently applied across teams
• Engineering teams view quality as a shared responsibility
  
  

Certifications, Licenses Or Registrations

• No certification, license or registration is required for the job.
  
  

Compensation

• Compensation offered for this role is 80,000.00-135,000.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.
  
  

Candidates must possess authorization to work in the United States, as it is not our practice to sponsor individuals for work visas.

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits on day one. In addition, we offer you a company matched 401(k) plan, generous paid time off, and much more! Visit our benefit site to learn more at www.allstategoodlife.com/AFI.

Answer Financial is an equal opportunity employer.