Software Development Engineer in Test

Who we are:

Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property insurance with our AI-powered data network. We believe in the power of accurate information to drive meaningful business decisions and offer solutions to generate that accurate information as easily and efficiently as possible. By connecting brokers, owners, and insurers, we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of the property insurance and risk management processes with confidence.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest property brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the worlds largest and most dynamic commercial property portfolios to improve their data and better represent their risks. Archipelago has achieved Series B funding from industry-leading investment partners including Scale, Canaan Partners, Ignition Partners, Prologis Ventures, Stone Point Capital, and Zigg Capital.

Join us at Archipelago and be part of a team dedicated to transforming the commercial property insurance industry. We're seeking individuals with a passion for innovation, a commitment to excellence, and a drive to further elevate and empower our customers. 

If you're ready to make a meaningful impact and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking company, we invite you to explore our job opportunities and join us on our journey to keep data accurate and workflows seamless.

NOTE: Preferred candidates to be located in India.

Who you are:

Archipelago is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to help us build and maintain a test automation framework to improve the confidence in our deployments. We’re a small engineering team distributed around the US, India, & Europe. We iterate quickly, ship every day, build for the long term, and are looking for smart, independent engineers who want to ply their trade with like-minded people.

Responsibilities: 

• Build, deploy and maintain an automated test infrastructure for the Archipelago application that will be used to validate all aspects of the product operation.
• Evaluate product functionality and create test strategies, automation frameworks and automated test cases to assess product health.
• Integrate with CI/CD pipeline to establish a continuous build and test cycle.
• Establish processes and tool set to maintain automation scripts and generate regular test reports.
• Diagnose issues, report defects, and propose regression tests to catch recurring bugs.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define requirements and ensure testability

Key Objectives & Results (OKRS) you are responsible for: 

• Automate 90% of manual regression tests
• End-to-end automation test for 100% of new and modified UI functionality by Platform and Productivity team

Qualifications: 

• 3+ years of software development experience with a focus on testing and automation. 
• Deep familiarity with automation frameworks such as Cypress or Selenium. 
• Solid knowledge of JavaScript/TypeScript, and React. 
• Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus. 
• Work independently as part of a distributed team. 
• Great communication and collaboration skills. 
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities.
• Work approximately 4+ hours overlap with US time zones for collaboration

Benefits:

We offer excellent benefits regardless of where you are in your career. Providing our employees the means to lead healthy, balanced lives results in the best possible work performance.

*All benefits are subject to change at management’s discretion.