Automation Engineer II

Position Summary Our Technology teams are set to reshape the way we do business and setting new industry benchmarks. Our success story is written by our passion for living our values and creating a better tomorrow. We re re-writing the future of insurance - are you ready to be a part of the story? The Automation engineer determines approach and builds and implements solutions that support automated testing and software validation. They will work very closely with both development and DevOps engineers to deliver low maintenance and high reliability automation in support of CI/CD and speed to market. He/She will understand and implement both automation that preserves component level and integrated system and software functionality. The Automation engineers will help to support tool evaluation, selection, and adoption. The Automation engineer contributes to defining of test automation approaches, framework designs and implementation. Lastly the Automation team will be supporting the business and IT in removing repetitive manual tasks leveraging process automation solutions. This candidate should be driven, self-motivated individual, passionate about innovation who enjoys working collaboratively across teams to ensure consistent and performant approaches to software automation, and further CI/CD maturity. You should have a proven track record of driving high level of software testing automation within a distributed, multi-tiered system and platforms. You enjoy reducing effort and organizational costs by improving automation levels, monitoring, and maintenance within both traditional and cloud architecture and environment. You should possess excellent written communication, problem solving and process management skills and strong desire to work in a fast paced, evolving and growing environment. Principal Duties and Responsibilities 1. Participate in technical discussions within the engineering team and across functions. 2. Design and develop test cases for new features and capabilities. 3. Build automation that supports validation and preservation of functionality from front end to back end storage systems. 4. Work directly with DevOps to support integration of functional and integration tests into no touch software pipeline jobs. 5. Ensure full auditability of software delivery and quality is preserved. 6. Support metric gathering and reporting on software quality from development through production. 7. Prepare and maintain clear documentation of automation frameworks, design, and standards. 8. Develop and improve tools and processes that empower teams to work faster and easier on their own. Education and Experience Preferred Bachelor s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or another related field OR equivalent work experience. 3-5 years of overall technology experience with 1-3 years of experience programing in java or other OO languages 2+ years of experience with at least some of the common automation testing tools such as Selenium, cucumber, SoapUI, Postman, Tricentis, etc. Sophisticated knowledge of automation testing and ability to develop test frameworks in either scripting or object-oriented languages. Knowledge off test automation frameworks and Test Driven Development Understanding of Common Source code management tooling such as GIT, GitHub, SVN Working knowledge of integration tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo or alike. Experience supporting "no touch" delivery of software leveraging system automation A team player, able to work in an environment of high levels of change and complexity Insurance or Financial services experience desirable Experience working within an Agile environment and the common automation and testing approaches supporting iterative delivery. Other Information Some travel required. Basic manual dexterity working with a keyboard. This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this job. Employees will be expected to complete other duties as assigned by their manager.