Test Automation Engineer I
Americo Financial Life and Annuity•Kansas City, MO
•Onsite
About The Position
The Information Technology department is responsible for supporting Americo's business systems, applications, and technology solutions that help deliver life insurance and annuity products and services. This role supports QA, developers, business partners, and release teams and plays a key role in developing and executing automated testing coverage that validates functional and regression requirements for assigned applications and user stories within established guidelines and service level expectations.
Requirements
- Junior college/two-year college training, or equivalent relevant IT experience.
- Foundational QA skills, including requirement analysis, defect tracking, and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with basic programming and object-oriented concepts, particularly C#.
- Experience adding automated tests to an existing framework using Selenium WebDriver or a comparable tool.
- Basic familiarity with API and web services testing concepts, including REST, SoapUI, or Postman.
- Strong analytical, critical thinking, time management, and task management skills.
Nice To Haves
- Experience executing automated suites within established CI/CD pipelines and interpreting results.
- Exposure to maintaining shared automation framework components, utilities, or object repositories.
- Interest in life insurance and annuity systems, along with a continuous improvement mindset.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated test scripts for assigned applications and user stories using approved frameworks, coding standards, and reusable components to validate functional and regression requirements.
- Execute automated test suites in local and shared environments, review results for accuracy, and identify failures, flaky tests, and coverage gaps that require follow-up.
- Troubleshoot failed tests to determine whether the cause is an application defect, data issue, environment instability, or script error, and escalate findings with clear supporting evidence.
- Prepare and maintain test data, input combinations, and business scenarios that reflect core life insurance and annuity workflows so automated tests validate realistic processing conditions.
- Contribute to shared automation framework components, utilities, and object repositories to improve script reliability, readability, and reuse across team projects.
- Document automated test cases, execution outcomes, known issues, and script changes so team members can reproduce results and support audits or release reviews.
- Collaborate with QA, developers, and business partners to clarify requirements, assess testability, and identify automation candidates within assigned work.
- Continue building core C# and automation skills while deepening understanding of Americo's insurance products and systems to increase independence over time.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Robust bonus program
- Comprehensive, paid training program
- Generous paid time off (accruing monthly, increasing with tenure, over three weeks annually for new hires)
- 11 paid company holidays
- Maternity and parental leave program
- Paid STD and LTD
- Flexible benefits
- PPO and HDHP medical plan options
- HSA and FSA eligibility
- Dental coverage
- Vision coverage
- Company-paid life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Confidential EAP
- Wellness program
- Comprehensive health resources
- Corporate fitness discounts
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Tuition reimbursement programs
- Paid parking
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
Associate degree
