Senior Software Development Engineer in Test @ Beyond Finance

At Beyond Finance, we’ve made it our mission to help everyday Americans escape the endless cycle of crippling debt and step into a brighter financial future. Through compassionate, individualized care,a culture focused on compliance and ethics, supportive user-centric technology, and customized financial solutions, we’ve helped over 300,000 clients on their path to a brighter future.

While we’re proud of what we’ve already accomplished, we’re searching for new collaborators to help us get to the next level! If you’re looking to join a forward-thinking, rapidly growing organization with helping people as its number one goal, we want to hear from you.

About the Role

Our technology team works to build, launch, and evolve our internal applications and consumer-facing web applications. We implement modern agile best practices and fully automated CI/CD pipelines. The SDET role focuses on verifying the quality and reliability of the software. A Senior SDET brings experience and understanding to the team, and owns the QA step in the process. You must be results-driven and able to thrive in a dynamic and rapidly-growing environment.

We’re a Chicago-based company looking for candidates willing to come into our downtown office 2-3 days a week. Enjoy in-person team collaboration, mentorship, and catered lunches — not to mention a free fitness center and relaxation lounge! If you’re not Chicago-based, we can offer relocation as well!

What You’ll Do

Work closely with the entire team to understand the work being done, communicate any issues you see, verify the quality of the software being built, and deliver new features and improvements.
Become the SME for projects as they are being planned and developed, and own the testing step in our SDLC.
Manually test as well as create automation around features being developed.
Investigate and resolve complex bugs in unfamiliar code.
Troubleshoot test and tool failures with no prior context.
Mentor other team members on best practices as well as testing and automation strategies.
Offer code reviews on SDET pull requests.
Attend and participate in scrum meetings.

What We Look For

Experience in building automation to test software applications
Comfort with manually testing software applications.
Ability to setup and maintain a local Ruby on Rails environment
Strong understanding of RSpec, Capybara, and Selenium WebDriver
An understanding of the code pipeline so that you can offer help when troubleshooting and maintenance.
Ability to prioritize and deliver stories independently, communicate bugs, and risks
Ability to write complex SQL queries to validate data changes or troubleshoot issues
Strong communication skills
Mentorship skills and the ability to give well-crafted constructive feedback

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Why Join Us?

While you make a difference for others, we’ll work to make a difference for you, providing an uplifting, collaborative work environment and benefits that reflect your value to us. For eligible full-time employees, we offer:

Considerable employer contributions for health, dental, and vision programs
Generous PTO, paid holidays, and paid parental leave
401(k) matching program
Merit advancement opportunities
Career development & training

And finally, our team spirit and culture! We cultivate an environment of community, connection, and belonging across our entire organization.

Beyond Finance does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job positions. No fee will be paid to their parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to Beyond Finance employees or the Beyond Finance HR team. No placement fee will be paid to any third party unless such a request has been made by the Beyond HR team.

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