Hybrid Senior Analyst, SDET

at The Hartford

• Job title: Senior Analyst, SDET
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $103,200 - $154,800 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud, Java, JavaScript, Jenkins, JMeter, OpenShift, Python, SDLC, Selenium, Splunk, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hartford, United States

About the role

• Senior Quality Engineer establishing frameworks for automated testing and quality assurance in insurance company. Leading initiatives and collaborating with teams to optimize testing processes.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for overall test planning and test execution of the assigned Scrum and Platform teams for Digital applications.
• Work with multiple vendors, IT leaders, and business teams to align automated testing priorities with IT strategies.
• Design, develop, review and maintain test artifacts – test cases, frameworks, code library, common capabilities, etc. adhering to the software engineering best practices and meet expected quality standards.
• Develop automated Test Data Management capabilities across the program ecosystem.
• Provide solutions to shift-left NFR testing – performance, security and accessibility for external facing digital applications.
• Identify industry accepted tools and technology for implementation that align with business goals, application landscape and cloud first approach.
• Contribute to the quality engineering activities throughout every phase of the SDLC requirements, design, development, and testing.
• Lead initiatives for Performance testing and Security testing to build quality into the product.
• Provide technical leadership to Scrum QA engineers to adopt shift left approach in testing.
• Lead and implement End to End Quality Gating integrated with the Continuous deployment and Continuous testing process.
• Ability to understand release needs and determine test data and environment needs.
• Experience in using Analytics to identify patterns/create predictive models for day-to-day use cases.
• Be passionate about new technologies and help bring in outside- in view to teams on the ground to drive transformation leveraging Gen AI capabilities.
• Plan bug bashes and provide support to business partners during UAT planning, execution.
• Collaborate with other stakeholders like Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Engineers and other QA engineers to improve the testing infrastructure and mature the Continuous Testing practices.
• Evaluate efficiency of existing QA practice and recommend for improvements.
• Display critical thinking skills by identifying and resolving risks and issues in proactive manner.

Requirements

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 5 + years of experience in Quality Engineering
• 3+ years of experience in leading Quality engineering teams
• Experience with programming language – Java, JavaScript /Typescript, Python
• Experience with Test automation tools – Playwright, Karate, BDD, Selenium, Blazemeter/JMeter, Test Data Management tool
• Experience with DevOps and RE tools chain like Sonar, Nexus, Jenkins, Git, Splunk, Dynatrace
• Experience with cross browser testing – Browser stack, Selenium Grid, OpenShift
• Experience with Gen AI – GitHub Copilot, and Model Context Protocol (Playwright, GitHub)
• Strong experience in risk-based approach for implementing End to End test strategies
• Knowledge of Agile Scrum/SAFE methodology
• Effectively use collaboration tools like Rally/Jira

Benefits

• Employee Benefits
• Short-term or annual bonuses
• Long-term incentives
• On-the-spot recognition