Test Automation Engineer Lead

USAA•San Antonio, TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

USAA is seeking a dedicated Test Automation Engineer Lead to innovate within their Investment Experience Technology group. This role involves working in a dynamic, startup-minded team, leveraging modern technologies (Go, Java, APIs, OpenShift) to test next-generation investment solutions. The position is pivotal in creating seamless digital experiences for members and advisors. The lead will be responsible for driving automated testing strategy (End to End, Performance) for a new LOB Member Experience, mentoring and providing technical oversight to testing teams, and driving Technology Quality Assurance for the new investment services line. The role involves designing and implementing tests to ensure the quality and functionality of software applications, developing automation for functional test cases and other automatable business scenarios to increase productivity, and providing Automated Regression Testing support. The position requires applying expert knowledge to provide Technical Testing solutions that ensure efficiencies and cost savings within USAA's testing model. The work environment is flexible, requiring individuals to be in the office 4 days per week, and the position is based in San Antonio, TX or Plano, TX. Relocation assistance is not available.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree; OR 4 years of relevant education and/or experience.
8 years of relevant business support in automated testing, security/compliance testing, and/or other technical testing methodologies.
Authoritative/Strategic knowledge of automated testing techniques and/or methodologies and tools.
Advanced knowledge of security vulnerability and compliance testing/scanning.
SME coordinating complex network and/or computing testing and ensuring appropriate user groups are engaged.
Demonstrated experience coordinating teams on required touch points for when an enhancement or release are in a production environment.
Experience with technical documentation, including but not limited to test reports, installation, and user guides.
Advanced experience in the design and implementation of reusable engineering processes, test cases, test scripts, test plans, test scenarios, and test data with a keen understanding of test case traceability back to top level requirements.
Advanced facilitation, collaboration and consensus building skills, with extensive experience in presenting to cross-functional teams and Senior/Executive leaders.
Experience driving quality through process, instrumentation, requirements and testing.
Proficient in new and emerging testing technologies.

Nice To Haves

Experience with automation tools: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, Appium
Strong API testing skills using REST APIs and Postman
Hands-on experience with Sauce Labs and Testim
Test management and tracking using Jira and qTest
Expertise in designing scalable automation frameworks (data-driven/hybrid)
Experience with GitLab CI/CD and Git-based version control
Knowledge of Agile/Scrum and BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber)
Strong understanding of functional, regression, and integration testing
SQL and database validation skills
Experience with test data management tools such as Delphix and Test Data Marketplace
Understanding of microservices architecture and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Responsibilities

Collaborates with departmental executive management and leaders across the enterprise to identify, develop and communicate enterprise technical or business strategies based on business knowledge, sound financial principles, established best practices, and the strategic direction of the Enterprise.
Drives direction for advanced test asset development based on industry knowledge, business and technology road maps and influences decisions made in the domain.
Drives the development of processes and procedures and leads efforts to improve domain.
Reviews complex test assets and provides guidance to technical challenges or issues.
Benchmarks against industry standards to lead to the development of the most complex test automation practices/standards.
Independently evaluates test asset issues on projects and other efforts ensuring team member deliverable compliance/completeness.
Applies expert knowledge of security vulnerability and compliance testing/scanning to the development of best practices.
Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.
Responsible for designing and implementing tests that ensure the quality and the functionality of software applications.
Ensure proper automation is developed for functional test cases and other automatable business scenarios with the intention of increasing productivity in projects and programs related to new enhancements or releases.
Provides Automated Regression Testing support by executing automated scripts to validate the release test environment for USAA application releases.
Applies expert knowledge to provide Technical Testing solutions to ensure appropriate efficiencies and cost savings are built into USAA's testing model.