Quality Engineering Automation Senior Engineer (Hybrid)

26 May 2024

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Securian Financial Groups internal position title is Quality Assurance Sr Analyst.

Position Summary:

Are you passionate about IT? How about automation? Securian Financial is seeking an Automation Senior Engineer to join our Quality Engineering team. In this role, you will implement quality strategy by working on things such as test automation, best practices, and DevOps integrations within an agile team, all with an end goal to introduce automation deeper into our testing pyramid. If you are driven by improving processes and being as efficient as you can, this position is for you!

Responsibilities include but not limited to:

  • Accountable for ensuring overall product and integration quality.
  • Lead efforts to define, refine and articulate the quality strategy required to support assigned projects.
  • Deliver test automation and test coverage within agile delivery teams. Design and create object-oriented test suites and re-usable tooling.
  • Provide metrics to establish baselines and track quality and efficiency improvements.
  • Provide quality thought leadership and innovation to support successful project delivery.
  • Ensure automation code quality, leveragability, and maintainability through code reviews, standards, etc.
  • Promote and recommend practices to further Continuous Delivery & Continuous Improvement
  • Collaborate closely with all stakeholders on assigned projects to move testing lower in the test pyramid. The strategy will consider quality of code, design, and requirements.
  • Establish a culture for quality, including a "shift left" focus for finding defects sooner and discussing defect root causes and ways of preventing future defects.

    Qualifications:

  • Experience in one or more programming languages, software engineering methodologies and technologies, and software quality tools:
  • Web API, REST
  • JavaScript, Jest, Typescript, Java, Python, Junit, HTML, JSON, SQL
  • WebDriver IO, Postman, Newman, UiPath
  • Cucumber, Jasmine
  • VSCode, Node JS
  • Jira, GitHub, GitHub Actions
  • Distributed logging, distributed data stores
  • Experience with developing, writing, and executing robust test scripts.
  • Strong technical aptitude and experience with the software tools and techniques used in software development and automated testing.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into test strategy and test cases, estimating Agile testing tasks.
  • Effective time management, ability to plan and prioritize work effectively.
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence, collaborate, and build solid relationships with team members.

    Preferred Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent required, computer science degree preferred.
  • 4+ years of relevant experience.

    This position will be in a hybrid working arrangement.

    Physical job requirements:

  • Ability to utilize keyboard, mouse and computer for up to 8 hours per day
  • Ability to work at least 40 hours per week
  • Ability to utilize telephone for up to 8 hours per day
  • Ability to perform grasping tasks throughout the entire work day (examples: handwriting, grasping of equipment/machines, paper manipulation, sorting, folding, handling stacks of paper)

    The physical job requirements described above are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of jobs.

    Securian Financial has been around for 140 years. We're committed to giving back to our community, donating 15,000 employee volunteer hours this past year. We also provide extensive resources to our employees for professional development and growth and a number of diverse professional and social opportunities throughout the company. There's a reason our employees have voted us as a best place to work year after year! In addition:

  • Generous paid time off. We want you to take time off for whatever matters most to you!
  • Tuition reimbursement program. We value continuous learning at Securian!
  • Company-funded pension plan as well as 401K retirement plan - great resources to secure your financial future.
  • Continuous opportunities for new challenges.
  • Variety of health plan options as well as dental and vision plans.
  • Paid maternity/paternity leaves.

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