IT Senior Software Engineer (Performance Test)

Erie Insurance • Erie, PA

40d • Onsite

About The Position

Designs, develops, and maintains complex computer software. Leads or participates in high complexity/risk projects including creating technical design documentation, performing code and unit test reviews, and validating the overall cohesion and quality of the project or support team deliverables with high impact. Delivers high complexity/risk code/configurations under minimal supervision in a primarily full-stack development environment including front-end, policy, integration, and cloud. This is an opportunity for an IT Senior Software Engineer to join the Performance Testing team, with an IT enterprise core integration focus. You will support several key initiatives, which may include but are not limited to Billing V3, Customer Service new applications, and the Data team. These areas are leveraging new ways of working, such as, with AWS migrations and overarching application work among multiple technical platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, MIS, or related field and five years' related experience; or
• Associate's degree in a technical field, plus seven years' related experience; or
• High School Diploma plus nine years' related experience.
• Possesses significant acumen in one or more practice areas with continued growth in experience, breadth, and depth in additional practice areas: front-end, full-stack, back-end, mainframe, integration, document management, data science, required.
• Certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred.
• Pursuance of advanced certification in one or more preferred technologies at ERIE preferred.

Nice To Haves

• LoadRunner Enterprise or similar load testing tool knowledge and exposure
• Experience with validating application interactions and dependencies across areas within a single environment
• Participation and/or process ownership in a quality review function(e.g. PEGT, CAB)
• Gathering and defining performance test requirements
• Integrated Requirements Management Practices(specific use of Jira, Gitlab, and/or ServiceNow a bonus)
• Experience executing Chaos Engineering practices
• AWS Associate Developer Certification and/or AWS Professional DevOps Certification

Responsibilities

• Develops high-quality software design, tools, and applications, by producing clean, efficient code.
• Identifies, prioritizes, and executes tasks in the software development life cycle.
• Automates tasks through appropriate tools and scripting.
• Reviews and debugs code.
• Performs validation and verification testing (unit and integration testing).
• Documents development phases and monitors systems.
• Ensures software is updated and supported.
• Communicates and collaborates openly and effectively across teams, vendors, and portfolios.
• Coaches and mentors peers and junior engineers.
• May perform as a technical lead on a medium complexity/risk project or a production support team/service team.
• May participate in Proof of Concept (POC) execution under the leadership of a Technology Architect or Principal Engineer.

Benefits

• Premier health, prescription, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents. Coverage begins your first day of work.
• Low contributions to medical and prescription premiums. We currently pay up to 97% of employees' monthly premium costs.
• Pension. We are one of only 13 Fortune 500 companies to offer a traditional pension plan. Full-time employees are vested after five years of service.
• 401(k) with up to 4% contribution match. The 401(k) is offered in addition to the pension.
• Paid time off. Paid vacation, personal days, sick days, bereavement days and parental leave.
• Career development. Including a tuition reimbursement program for higher education and industry designations.
• Additional benefits that include company-paid basic life insurance; short-and long-term disability insurance; orthodontic coverage for children and adults; adoption assistance; fertility and infertility coverage; well-being programs; paid volunteer hours for service to your community; and dollar-for-dollar matching of your charitable gifts each year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Insurance Carriers and Related Activities