Onsite Test Engineer II

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About the role

  • Test Engineer II ensuring the quality of solutions for Colonial Life agents. Collaborating in an agile environment with a focus on manual and automated testing.

Responsibilities

  • Responsible for ensuring the quality of existing and new features through both manual and automated testing and use of continuous integration techniques where practical
  • Partner closely with the Business Analysts to create acceptance criteria for the user stories
  • Leverages the acceptance to create tests that can be automated
  • Produces test scripts, materials and regression test packs to test new and amended software or services
  • Specifies requirements for environment, data, resources and tools
  • Evaluates and plans for regression testing for new releases of 3rd party/cloud based solutions and any Unum specific configurations or customization
  • Partners closely with team members to assist with and help drive test automation through all phases of testing (such as unit, system, integration and regression)
  • Is an advocate for Quality Assurance best practices across the entire team throughout the deliverables
  • Analyzes and reports test activities and results using industry best practices that align with the companies reporting and metrics needs
  • Responsible for creating test strategies, test plans, test cases, test coverage, and test execution reports to support the Quality Assurance effort in testing features that are part of application and/or solution changes
  • Creates and maintains traceability records, from test cases back to requirements
  • Communicates daily with the Scrum Master or Team Lead and the agile team on progress made and planned progress for the coming day; reports any impediments blocking progress
  • Participates in sizing and estimation activities within the agile team
  • Collaborates with the Team (Business Analysts, Designers, Software Engineers, Architects, etc.) to ensure that the team defines, configures, builds, and produces features and solutions that meet or exceed what the Product Owner is expecting
  • Automates testing of software to industry standards
  • Create and maintain appropriate test artifacts for the team (Test Plans, Sprint Plans etc.)
  • May direct the activities of onshore and offshore testing teams and be accountable for ensuring that they adhere to the teams standards
  • Ensures that the latest project progress is known to the agile team by ensuring Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are up to date and participating in daily standups outlining progress made, progress planned and detailing impediments
  • Thinks with the mind of the end customer at all times, ensuring solutions seek to improve the customer experience and delight their customers.

Requirements

  • Bachelors Degree preferred, or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of successful performance in Test Engineer role or equivalent relevant work experience
  • Clearly demonstrates analytical ability and critical thinking skills
  • Takes a logical, analytical approach to problem solving and pays close attention to detail
  • Experience with Agile Development Methodologies
  • Self motivated and results oriented
  • Demonstrates strong focus on quality delivery and delighting customers; holds self to high standards of delivery
  • Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
  • Strong team player; able to work effectively within a team and more broadly with people from a variety of backgrounds and areas across the organization
  • Takes an innovative approach to problem solving
  • Able to solve complex testing needs and drive overall solution quality
  • Test Certifications are preferred (ISTQB certifications, CSM, CSD, CSP)

Benefits

  • healthcare benefits (health, vision, dental)
  • insurance benefits (short & long-term disability)
  • performance-based incentive plans
  • paid time off
  • 401(k) retirement plan with an employer match up to 5% and an additional 4.5% contribution whether you contribute to the plan or not

Job title

Test Engineer II

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

$73,300 - $150,500 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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