Senior QA Engineer

Guardian Life Insurance • New York, NY

20h

About The Position

As a Senior QA Engineer, your role will be to promote product ownership and quality through well-defined measurable processes, comprehensive quality assessment and identification of risk. You will be embedded within our Application and Platform Engineering teams, working closely with Product and Design to understand features, bugs, customer usage, and technical implementation to deliver high quality products for our customers. You will play an integral part in helping us shift testing left in our SDLC and finding the right tools for it.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
• Hands-on experience creating, executing and maintaining test automation (Javascript preferred)
• Experience in testing and test automation solutions spanning front-end UI to APIs
• Understanding of continuous integration and associated tools and processes
• Ability to communicate cross-functionally and across levels in formal and informal settings, clearly articulating technical concepts with the ability to thoughtfully defend one’s stance against disagreement or skepticism
• Must be able to thrive in an ambiguous environment - where change is the only constant
• Must be an effective multi-tasker comfortable working on multiple products and projects
• Team-oriented mindset, celebrating and taking joy in the success of others on the team

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a startup or venture-like operating model preferred

Responsibilities

• Drive the creation and execution of test strategy, test plans, test cases as well as utilize automated tools to optimize the SDLC/STLC
• Perform exploratory testing, automate repetitive tasks and work side-by-side with software development engineers
• Review user interfaces for conformity and functionality
• Efficiently execute test cases across all functional and UI areas of our products
• Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
• Measure, interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process

Benefits

• At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.
• Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.
• As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues.
• Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits.
• Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed