Specialist, Quality Engineer
About The Position
If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio, Des Moines, Iowa, or Scottsdale, Arizona office 2 days (Wednesday & Thursday) per week. DOTS (Data Operations Technology Solutions) is looking for a Specialist Quality Engineer to lead Quality assurance and control activities in developing a modern data platform. In this role you will be part of a complex mega data transformation program that is developing a state-of-the-art modern data platform with cutting edge technologies like Databricks, Snowflake, Python, DataOps, AtScale and Streamsets, etc. You will be part of highly skilled, highly collaborative and friendly team that helps you grow professionally and personally.
Requirements
- Must have expertise in advanced SQL queries
- Must have expertise in ETL tools like Informatica
- Must have solid experience in Data warehousing projects and deeper understanding on project lifecycle of data projects
- Must have solid understanding in Testing framework, test tools and various test activities
- Must have excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Should be self-motivated, self-organized and results driven personality
- Experience with agile testing within the software development lifecycle
- Test Automation skills with tools like Tosca
- Four or more years of experience with using test optimization and automation processed and tools.
- Demonstrated experience in testing for agile teams including planning, test plan creation, maintenance and execution.
- Good understanding of test automation and optimization throughout a stack and the tools to support.
- Strong analytical and communication skills, knowledge of planning.
- Ability to problem solve and set priorities needed.
Nice To Haves
- Good understanding in Object oriented languages and Python
Responsibilities
- Carries out procedures to ensure all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements.
- Analyzes and reviews moderate requirements, user stories and technical work products to create the automation needed.
- Plans for the proper mix of manual, automated, and exploratory testing methods.
- Uses the appropriate quality engineering tools to define test data management, test automation, security/vulnerability, performance, and regression testing needs.
- Validates test results, records and researches defects.
- Coordinates test runs and test environment calendars for all impacted applications.
- Traces requirements to tests and test results.
- Prioritizes, defines, and manages defect reporting and resolution.
- Manages defects including identifying, tracking, and providing critical thinking for resolution.
- Identifies means to be more effective and efficient in testing, without compromising quality.
- Plans for continuous integration to enable a continuous deployment pipeline.
- Executes moderate release testing and has a plan for back-out testing.
- Validates that release components are installed in the appropriate testing environment.
- Aligns with the Nationwide automated testing reference architecture.
- Complies with release management process governance and timelines throughout the release.
- May perform other responsibilities as assigned.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- life insurance
- short and long term disability coverage
- paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
- nine paid holidays
- 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
- 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
- 401(k) with company match
- company-paid pension plan
- business casual attire
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
