Sr. Quality Engineer

Who’s Clearcover?

Clearcover is the smarter car insurance company. We use powerful technology to offer everyday drivers better coverage for less money. We’re proud to be one of the fastest growing startups in Chicago, and we’re currently looking to add a few more extraordinary people to our team.

Our Value Proposition: Clearcover is a venture-backed technology start-up disrupting the trillion dollar legacy insurance market. We’ve focused on building products that create confident, happy customers - and we’re flourishing. We believe in putting our people first, paying them well and working together to solve tough problems. If you’d like a high-growth opportunity with an award-winning company, let’s chat.

In This Role: Reporting to the Quality Engineering Manager, you will work with the Product and Engineering teams to deeply understand our technical products and business requirements and ensure they are being built with the highest quality. 

We are excited to announce that Clearcover is ranked #151 on this year's Inc. 5000 list, landing us in the Top 3% of the fastest-growing privately held companies in America! 

What will you do as a Sr. Quality Engineer?

• Collaborate closely with the Product and Engineering teams to understand and test our products
• Work in a scrum team to define and refine user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Plan and implement testing strategies for new and existing features
• Bolster and improve existing test suites to increase deployment confidence and speed
• Execute functional and non-functional tests including exploratory testing
• Review and improve our tests and coverage for our products 
• Research, implement and Improve testing tools and processes for your teams
• Analyze defects to determine how to improve our development process
• Work with their teams to perform root cause analysis, identify trends and corrective actions
• Proactively assess, prevent and communicate risks 

What do you need as a Sr. Quality Engineer?

• 5+ years of experience testing modern web applications in an agile environment
• 5+ years of experience testing APIs, both manually and programmatically 
• Expertise in using business requirements to define test cases and testing activities from concept through implementation and deployment
• Experience in planning, organizing and implementing test data for our testing needs
• Experience in developing and maintaining automated test suites using open source frameworks
• Experience with scripting and/or object oriented languages like Javascript, Ruby, Kotlin, Java etc.
• Experience with version control and CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Codeship etc.
• An instinct and understanding of where software might fail, and how to track down failures at various layers of an application stack
• Curiosity, attention to detail, customer focused mindset and passion for delivering business value through testing in a timely manner
• Excellent prioritization skills with an ability to multi-task and clear, concise communication
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant work experience

What other skills will be helpful?

• Ability to review unit and integration tests and use the information to balance holistic testing coverage and activities 
• Experience working with integration and contract testing tools and frameworks such as PACT, Wiremock etc.
• Experience working with developer centric testing and monitoring tools such as Optimizely, DataDog etc.

Did you know that women and minorities are less likely to apply to a position if they don’t match 100% of the job qualifications? Don’t let that be the reason you miss out on this opportunity! We encourage you to apply anyway. Don’t count yourself out!

But wait, there’s more: 

As a people-first company, your health and well-being is a priority at Clearcover. We offer comprehensive benefits for individuals and families:

• Medical. We offer rich and affordable BCBS plans for you and your dependents. If you select the high deductible health plan, we offer an HRA and contribute to your HSA.
• Dental and vision. We cover 100% of dental and vision premiums for you and your dependents.
• Pre-tax benefits, disability, and life insurance. 
• 401(k). We contribute 3%, even if you contribute nothing.

We’ve also curated a stack of perks and benefits that stretch beyond the expected. Our people have access to:

• Generous vacat