Company Overview

IDMe is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with IDMe once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 175 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with IDMe at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands use IDMe to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. IDMe’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. IDMe is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/.

IDMe is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings.

At IDMe, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here.

Position Overview

As a Senior Software Engineer on the Testing Tools team, you will own the architecture and reliability of the automation frameworks and testing infrastructure that give IDMe engineering teams the confidence to ship quickly and safely. You'll design and build tooling for functional, end-to-end, and security-focused test automation, extend testing coverage into production through canary releases and progressive delivery, and champion AI-assisted testing practices across the engineering organization. You'll work closely with engineering, product, and security teams to raise the bar on quality and resilience for a platform that verifies the identity of millions of users.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain automation frameworks (Playwright, Python, Jest, API automation) that provide comprehensive, reliable test coverage across IDMe's services.
Develop end-to-end and integration testing strategies for complex, asynchronous, event-driven, and eventually-consistent systems, including workflow orchestration platforms such as Temporal.
Build and champion testing-in-production practices – canary deployments, progressive/phased rollouts, synthetic monitoring, and automated rollback triggers – to validate real-world behavior safely before full release.
Own security-focused test automation covering authentication/authorization flows (OAuth 2.0, OIDC), RBAC/ReBAC, secrets management, and tenant isolation.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) to give teams fast, reliable feedback.
Apply AI tools to accelerate test authoring, test plan generation, and code review – modeling AI-first engineering practices for the team and helping less-technical stakeholders adopt AI safely.
Partner with development teams as a testing strategist, advising on testable code structure, coverage gaps, and quality checks throughout the development lifecycle.
Debug and root-cause issues across frontend, backend, APIs, and distributed services, and drive fixes to closure.
Define and track reliability metrics (e.g., time to detect, time to remediate) for the systems you test.

Minimum Qualifications

8+ years of experience (or equivalent: 6+ years with a Master's degree, or a PhD with 3+ years) as a software engineer in modern web applications and distributed systems.