Expert Software Engineer

About Alegeus

Alegeus is the market leader in consumer‑directed healthcare (CDH) solutions, powering millions of consumer benefit accounts including FSAs, HSAs, HRAs, dependent care and wellness programs through a modern SaaS and payments platform.

We are investing aggressively in modernization, API‑first integration, real‑time data access and AI‑enabled automation to redefine how consumers save and spend on healthcare. With industry expectations shifting rapidly, Alegeus is at a pivotal inflection point; we are transforming our platform, elevating engineering rigor and building a next‑generation product and engineering team.

Role summary

We are seeking an Expert Engineer – QA Automation to join the Architecture team and drive enterprise-wide quality engineering and automation practices across domain teams. This role focuses on leveraging industry-standard open-source tools to implement scalable testing strategies for microservices-based, event-driven, and cloud-native platforms, systems thinking, automation depth, and strong collaboration skills.

The candidate will work closely with architecture, platform engineering, and development teams to enable automation-first, shift-left testing, and performance validation for distributed systems.

Key responsibilities

• Automation Strategy for Microservices and distributed systems
• Define test strategy across services and layers
• Ensure scalability and reusability
• Align with architecture patterns
• Enable API, integration, and end-to-end testing using open-source tools
• Implement API automation
• Ensure integration coverage
• Support business workflows
• Event-driven and Async systems Testing
• Validate messaging workflows
• Handle eventual consistency
• Test retries/failures
• Performance and load testing strategies using Locust, JMeter, or k6
• Create realistic load models
• Simulate production traffic
• Automate execution
• Performance Analysis and Optimization
• Identify bottlenecks
• Provide insights
• Collaborate on tuning
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Pipeline integration
• Fast feedback
• Stable execution
• Leverage observability practices for system behavior analysis
• Use logs, metrics, traces
• Correlate issues
• Improve debugging
• Drive Shift-Left testing practices
• Early testing
• Integrate into dev lifecycle
• Reduce defects
• End-to-End Engineering mindset
• Understand system flow
• Ensure quality across layers
• Own outcomes
• Collaboration & accountability
• Work across teams
• Drive ownership
• Ensure accountability
• Continuous improvement
• Identify gaps
• Adopt new tools
• Refine processes

Required qualifications (Hard requirements)

• 7–9 years of experience in QA Automation / Quality Engineering
• Strong programming experience in C#/.NET, Java, Selenium
• Strong expertise in API automation testing
• Experience testing microservices-based architectures
• Experience with event-driven systems / messaging platforms
• Strong understanding of data models and relational and NoSQL database design.
• Hands-on experience in performance testing using Jmeter(or similar tools like JMeter, k6, Locust)
• Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Familiarity with observability concepts
• Hands-on experience with Grafana dashboards
• Strong ability to context switch across multiple initiatives, domains, and priorities while maintaining quality and efficiency
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering, product and domains teams.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Experience with performance testing tools and observability platforms.
• Familiarity with event-driven architecture and Kafka Experience
• Experience using generative AI tools to enhance test automation and documentation.
• Python language and Locust tool
• AI-based testing/evaluation

What success looks like

A successful Expert QA engineer working in Foundational services will:

• Standardized and scalable automation practices adopted across foundational initiatives
• Improved system reliability and performance visibility
• Faster feedback cycles through CI/CD-integrated testing
• Effective use of open-source tools without reinventing frameworks
• Improve system reliability by validating integrations, performance and observability.
• Reduce escaped defects and strengthen domains team and customer trust.
• Contribute to a culture where quality is shared responsibility.

Why join us

You will be part of a team tackling challenging modernization work at scale. Our consumer‑directed healthcare platform is critical to Alegeus mission of simplifying healthcare payments, and this role offers the opportunity to drive tangible impact. You will work with supportive colleagues, leverage cutting‑edge tools (including AI‑assisted development), and develop your skills in microservices, event‑driven architectures, test‑driven development and cloud engineering. If you are a product‑minded engineer who cares about business outcomes and takes pride in your craft, we'd love to hear from you.