Stability Engineer

Senior Server Engineer Contract Role (Integration Testing Initiative)
Location:
Remote

Team:
Aetna Digital Backend Engineering

Position Summary
We're looking for experienced
Senior Server Engineers
to join a high-impact initiative focused on improving integration testing, QA data reliability, and CI/CD automation across our backend ecosystem. You'll help define and implement best practices for testing, automation, and code coverage across 170+ services, while contributing to foundational improvements that enable modern deployment strategies like canary releases.

This role blends deep server-side engineering expertise with a strong understanding of infrastructure, developer experience, and testing strategy. You'll be hands-on with Java and services, AWS infrastructure, and CI/CD tooling, and will help shape reusable test harnesses, QA data pipelines, and intelligent QA discovery mechanisms - including AI-powered approaches.

We value engineers who are pragmatic, collaborative, and passionate about improving developer workflows and system reliability.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend/server-side engineering experience (Java and/or )
• 3+ years of experience designing and implementing integration and functional test suites
• Experience defining and implementing testing best practices, automation strategies, and code coverage standards
• Strong experience with CI/CD tooling (CircleCI, GitHub EMU, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with AWS services (e.g., Lambda, Aurora, DocDB, API Gateway)
• Familiarity with QA data setup, mocking strategies, and test data pipelines
• Experience working with microservice architectures and third-party dependencies
• Strong understanding of software architecture and infrastructure fundamentals
• Comfortable working independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, agile environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with agile testing practices (ATDD, BDD, SBE)
• Familiarity with observability tools (Grafana, CloudWatch)
• Exposure to DORA metrics and DevOps performance tracking
• Experience with intelligent QA data discovery (e.g., log scraping, AI-assisted test data identification)
• Background in infrastructure or developer experience (DevEx) initiatives
• Experience with domain-driven design and service interoperability
• Knowledge of progressive delivery
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Experience mentoring or guiding teams on testing best practices

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)

Required Skills : Compliance

Basic Qualification
Additional Skills :

Background Check : Yes

Drug Screen : No

Wünschenswerte Fähigkeiten

• Java
• Test Automation

• Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Berufserfahrung

• Backend
• Build/Release
• DevOps

Sprachkenntnisse

• English