Consultant, Quality Engineer

If you’re passionate about innovation and love working in an environment where you can constantly improve and adopt new technologies to drive business results, then Nationwide’s Information Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role will work a hybrid schedule coming into the Columbus, Ohio office 2 days per week (Wednesdays & Thursdays).

Life New Business is seeking a highly motivated, Quality Engineer to lead the Test Automation & overall Quality Efforts within the exciting Life New Business Application Suite. This role will provide leadership across people, process, and a variety of technology solutions supporting the Life New Business Journeys spanning Pre-Sale Illustrations, Point of Sale eApplications, Underwriting Systems, through Policy Issuance and Downstream Coordination. This is a hands-on role that leads our most complex initiatives facing off with vendor and firm partners.

Life is a growing business and New Business is at the forefront of that growth. This role will have the unique opportunity to directly impact Life's Strategic Goal to serve more people.

This role supports 4 agile lines working in a Product-centric Operating Model. In partnership with Product Owners, this role is responsible for ensuring successful quality delivery of a robust project portfolio spanning product launches, innovative 3rd party vendor collaborations, as well as meaningful enhancements. At the same time, this role leads End to End Test Initiatives requiring collaboration and coordination with Policy Administration, Commissions, and eB2B systems.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement Automated Test Strategies for Life New Business capabilities - Ensure solutions are scalable, secure, and meet business needs

• End-to-End Testing - Manage testing efforts within and across organizations and provide detailed status reports

• Enhance QE Practices - Improve our Quality Engineering practices and processes

• Coach QEs - Guide and mentor other Quality Engineers in test strategies and automation techniques

• Defect Analysis - Conduct in-depth defect analysis for Life New Business Application Suite and report on findings and trends in the Monthly Operations Review

• Vendor Relationships - Establish effective relationships with vendors and service providers to ensure high-quality deliverables

• Firm Relationships - Establish meaningful relationships with Firm partners to ensure high-quality experiences with our teams

• Collaboration - Cultivate strong partnerships with business stakeholders, product and journey owners, and establish and foster close partnerships across all IT organizations

• Continuous Improvement - Stay updated on industry trends and best practices - Implement continuous improvement processes to enhance product quality and team efficiency

Ideal candidate will have the following skills/experiences:

• TOSCA

• Postman

• Jmeter

• SQL

• WireMock

Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Quality Engineer you will plan and conduct a wide range of software quality tests and analyzes to ensure all application products and services meet organizational standards aligned to their quality management approach, as well as, end-user requirements. Quality Engineers perform our quality planning, quality design and execution.

You will focus on a blend of skills enabling efficient execution of risk-based testing, test automation, performance testing, test data management, test environment management, continuous integration and continuous deployment all improving speed to delivery for our business partners.

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