Specialist - Quality Engineer - Data / Tosca - E&S

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.

• Ability to adapt and shift of mindset is a must

• Coordinate and work under direction of Asset Test Suite Test Lead

• This will be a hands-on role with the ability to lead up to 4 Quality Engineering resources.

• TOSCA Di experience is a must have with strong knowledge and experience in data testing.

Compensation grade F5

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. All Quality Engineers perform 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.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities: 

• Carries out procedures to ensure all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements.

• Analyzes and reviews moderate requirements, user stories and technical work products to create the automation needed.

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Plans for the proper mix of manual, automated, and exploratory testing methods.

• Uses the appropriate quality engineering tools to define test data management, test automation, security/vulnerability, performance, and regression testing needs.

• Validates test results, records and researches defects.

• Coordinates test runs and test environment calendars for all impacted applications.

• Traces requirements to tests and test results.

• Prioritizes, defines, and manages defect reporting and resolution.

• Manages defects including identifying, tracking, and providing critical thinking for resolution.

• Identifies means to be more effective and efficient in testing, without compromising quality.

• Plans for continuous integration to enable a continuous deployment pipeline.

• Executes moderate release testing and has a plan for back-out testing.

• Validates that release components are installed in the appropriate testing environment.

• Aligns with the Nationwide automated testing reference architecture.

• Complies with release management process governance and timelines throughout the release.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships:  Reports to Technology Manager or Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences: 

Education:   Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field is preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications including TOSCA Automated Specialist 1 (AS1), TOSCA Automated Specialist 2 (AS2), or other related designations are preferred.

Experience: Four or more years of experience with using test optimization and automation processed and tools.  Demonstrated experien