ABOUT US

Bestow is the leading digital platform for life insurance. As both a direct-to-consumer destination and an infrastructure provider, Bestow is on a mission to make life insurance accessible to millions of underserved families. 

We ideate fast, embrace change, and take risks. As a rapidly growing tech startup, we look for the best talent out there and try to stay out of their way. From scaling our business model to expanding our offerings, the day-to-day at Bestow offers endless professional growth opportunities. The people who succeed here look for problems and solutions. They are both passionate about their ideas and open to having their mind changed. 

In the end, we value the same things our customers do: family. So we strive for work-life balance and believe happy employees make for better experiences and happier customers. It’s a model that helped us land the #2 spot on Forbes’ Best Startup Employers 2021 list. Boom!

As a Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) you will write software to test product functionality and performance. Your work is a critical part of our continuous delivery pipeline. Do you love collaborating with product managers, engineers, and designers to ensure we build high-quality software? We'd love to hear from you. 

Challenges on which you can expect to work:

Requirements and Test Planning: You will work with engineers and product managers to understand requirements and flesh out user stories with acceptance criteria. You will bring clarity to expectations. Once requirements are understood you will prioritize our automation initiatives and ensure comprehensive test coverage.

Automation: Your principal responsibility will be building automation platforms and test cases to ensure the quality of our products. This includes browser-based UI tests using tools like Cypress/Selenium; HTTP API testing; Performance testing using tools like Gatling/Locust.io

Coaching: Using your knowledge of test methodologies you will coach engineers on ways they can ensure quality in their code. For instance, recommending improvements to unit tests during code review or suggesting performance increases for integration test suites.

Metrics: Do you love measuring what you build? You will define, measure, and communicate metrics that represent our product quality. These metrics help us know we're focusing on the right things and continually improving.

Open to Austin, TX, Dallas, TX or Remote (US) #LI-Remote

A Little About You

• Professional experience with web browser automation tools like Cypress or Selenium
• Professional experience with SAAS testing products like BrowserStack and SauceLabs
• Professional experience with build systems such as BuildKite, Gitlab, CircleCI or Jenkins
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with Cloud Hosting providers (Google Cloud Platform preferred)
• Ability to create a roadmap of test projects and lead them to completion
• Proficient in a scripting language such as Bash, Javascript, Python or Ruby
• Performance testing experience (gatling, locust.io, etc) a plus
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication
• You always want to sit next to the person who is smarter than you because you value a culture of mentorship and learning
• You are looking to bring your voice and talent to a mission-driven company in ways that help it to grow and expand its reach
• US Citizen or Permanent Resident (Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time)

Total Rewards

• Competitive salary
• Generous PTO
• Flexible schedule and work/life balance
• 100% company-paid health, dental, and vision insurance
• Office snacks and weekly team lunches
• Team building events and activities

We value diversity at Bestow. We hire, recruit, and promote without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every member of our team. 

Bestow does not sponsor applicants for work visas at this time.