Senior Platform Quality Engineer

at Navient in Boise, Idaho, United States

Our mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. We empower students with financial support and supercharge their ability to pay down their debt, so they can get on the right financial track, fast.

We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including:

+ Private student loans low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments.

+ Student loan refinancing break free from high-interest rates or monthly payments.

+ Scholarships access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.

Earnies are committed to helping students live their best lives, free from the stress of student debt. If youre as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and lets build something great together!

The Senior Platform Quality Engineer position will report to the Head of Quality Engineering.

As the Senior Platform Quality Engineer, you will:

+ Ensure service compatibility and consumer-driven development using your deep understanding of contract testing principles (e.g., Pact, Spring Cloud Contract).

+ Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure that effective testing methodologies and automated testing tools are seamlessly integrated into the development process.

+ Champion test-driven development practices across development teams to prevent and detect errors, and ensure faster feedback.

+ Tackle intricate technical challenges associated with infrastructure, testing and quality engineering.

+ Set up and maintain testing infrastructure (e.g., cloud environments, container orchestration) to support scalable test execution.

+ Proactively work with development teams to identify potential production issues and help devise strategies to mitigate risk.

+ Help build a culture of shift-left and collective ownership of quality at Earnest.

Your Impact:

+ Design, develop and promote tools and frameworks that enable developers to validate functionality of web applications, services and APIs.

+ Drive the adoption of efficient quality engineering processes and identify gaps in test tooling.

About You:

+ Bachelors in CS, Engineering or equivalent experience of 5+ years of quality engineering experience.

+ Experience with server-side concepts, e.g. microservices, database, caching, performance, monitoring and scalability.

+ Familiarity with modern JavaScript libraries and frameworks like React, Angular, or Vue.js, Node.js.

+ Test automation techno