About The Role

Who we are

Welcome to Archipelago, where we're redefining the landscape of commercial property and casualty insurance with the most powerful AI Agent that helps drive meaningful business decisions and value for their clients as easily and efficiently as possible. By equipping brokers with the Agent, Hub, and Platform, we empower our customers to navigate the complexities of property and casualty insurance with confidence and control.

Archipelago was founded in 2018 and serves many of the world’s largest commercial P&C brokers and their clients, representing over 500 of the world's largest and most dynamic 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 enabling commercial property and casualty insurance brokers with AI agents. 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. You will be required to schedule a portion of your working hours to coincide with our US-based team, specifically from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.

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
Diagnose issues, report defects, and propose regression tests to catch recurring bugs
Partner with product and engineering teams to define upcoming product requirements and ensure testability
Participate in defect triage, release validation, and production-quality investigations

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

5+ years of software development experience with a focus on testing and automation
Deep familiarity with automation frameworks. Cypress is preferred as that is our primary testing framework
Strong experience working in Github
Strong programming experience in JavaScript or TypeScript. React or similar frameworks are 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
Experience working in Agile/Scrum development environments

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.