Sr Engineer, Software Engineer - Test Automation Developer (Playwright)

Nationwide Mutual Insurance•Columbus, OH

42d•Hybrid

About The Position

Nationwide Financial has an open Test Automation Developer role. This Software Engineer Test Automation role will work a hybrid schedule with 2 days in the office (Monday and Tuesday) per week at our Columbus, OH office. If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Requirements

Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.
Two or more years of analysis and technology experience.
Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript.
Knowledge of software development lifecycle.
Proven ability to tackle moderately sophisticated business and development problems.
Ability to thrive in a team environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Playwright is preferred.
Candidates with strong experience using modern automation frameworks such as Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or TestCafe, along with demonstrated JavaScript/TypeScript proficiency and the ability to quickly adopt Playwright, are encouraged to apply.
Experience developing and maintaining automated UI and API test frameworks.
Experience integrating automated testing into Azure DevOps or other CI/CD pipelines.
Experience testing RESTful APIs and modern web applications in Agile and DevSecOps environments.
Experience collaborating across engineering, product and platform teams to deliver high-quality software.
Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Responsibilities

Design, develop and maintain automated UI and API test solutions using Playwright or comparable modern automation frameworks (e.g., Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or TestCafe) with JavaScript/TypeScript.
Build and enhance reusable automation frameworks and regression suites that improve software quality, release confidence and delivery speed.
Partner with engineering, product and platform teams to define test strategies, validate platform capabilities and ensure quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines by implementing automated execution, reporting and quality gates.
Improve automation reliability by reducing flaky tests, optimizing test coverage and enhancing regression effectiveness.
Validate REST APIs, application integrations and end-to-end workflows across distributed platform services.
Contribute to shared automation standards, engineering practices and continuous improvement initiatives.
Manage assigned work while proactively identifying risks, dependencies and quality concerns.
Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and best practices.
Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
Manages project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.