Stability Engineer Senior Server Engineer

Senior Server Engineer Contract Role (Integration Testing Initiative)

Location: Remote
Team: Aetna Digital Backend Engineering

Position Summary

Were 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. Youll 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. Youll 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

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field (or equivalent experience)

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Drug Screen : No