Develop Test Plans and Strategies: With the goal of minimizing production defects, lead the creation and execution of test plans and strategies, ensuring they are comprehensive, well-documented, and aligned with project goals.
Assess and estimate time, resources, and effort required for testing activities, supporting project timelines and deliverables.
Incorporate an automation-first approach to testing to maximize coverage and efficiency for medium sized features.
Design and Create Test Cases: Design and create reproducible complex cross-functional test cases for a variety of test types, ensuring that all software requirements are covered comprehensively.
Take ownership of end-to-end testing for complex projects and ensure effective execution.
Perform Manual and Automated Testing: With the goal of minimizing production defects, lead both manual and automated testing efforts for multiple small features, ensuring high-quality coverage for all phases of testing.
Collaborate with the team to continually improve automated testing practices and coverage.
Documentations for Process and Bug Report: Take ownership of create complex test cases test results and bug reports with detailed analysis.
Provide easy to follow test cases, concise reproducible steps in bug report and keep all report and other documentation up to date for large sized features to ensure overall quality.
Communicate and enforce best practices and ensure overall quality.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure complex requirements clarity including upstream and downstream functional areas, accountable for all features meet quality standards and ensure software meets requirements across the product.
Facilitate and guide UAT activities.
Continuous Improvement: Implement and Drive Continuous Improvement Practices. Lead small process improvements initiatives and quality assurance practices in their medium-sized functional area.
Use data and metrics to identify inefficiencies and propose solutions to enhance the overall testing process and software quality.

Requirements

Minimum: 5+ yrs industry experience, independently working on S/M projects, mentoring Jr testing engineers
Preferred: 5 or more years of white box testing experience
Preferred: 4 or more years of experience in automation testing
Preferred: 3 or more years of experience with Java or Python
Preferred: 3 or more years of experience testing UI and APIs
Exposure to Insurance Industry
Exposure to leveraging AI in testing
Minimum: Experienced with the following:
Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Able to handle complex troubleshooting and problem resolution across multiple systems.
Requirements Analysis: Ability to analyze complex product requirements and works independently to define the testing approach.
Automation Scripting: Ability to write and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, TestNG, or similar.
API Testing: Strong experience with API testing, including using tools like Postman or SoapUI for validating functionality and performance.
Collaboration and Communication: Ability to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as on executing task-specific collaboration, conveying precise technical details, responding to immediate issues, and ensure clarity in resolving task-level challenges.
Adaptability and Flexibility: Experienced with leading adaptation to changing requirements, code designs and implementation changes, new technologies, methods to solve problems, shift priorities, workstyle and responsibilities.
Time Management: Ability to manage large, complex testing projects with multiple dependencies.

Benefits

Competitive compensation
Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)
Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
Engaging work environment
Promotional opportunities
Education assistance
Professional and personal development opportunities
Company recognition program
Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

test planstest strategiesmanual testingautomated testingwhite box testingautomation testingJavaPythonAPI testingautomation scripting

Soft Skills

critical thinkingproblem-solvingrequirements analysiscollaborationcommunicationadaptabilityflexibilitytime management