Specialist, 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.

Are you passionate about building quality into every step of the software development lifecycle? Do you thrive in agile environments and love turning complex business needs into elegant, testable solutions? If so, we want to meet you.

We’re on the hunt for a Quality Engineer Specialist who’s not just a tester—but a quality advocate, automation enthusiast, and agile collaborator.

 

This hybrid position will be based in Columbus, OH or Des Moines, IA and will collaborate in office 2 days per week and enjoy the flexibility of remote work the remaining days.

What We’re Looking For:

•  Minimum of 4 years of testing experience in an agile environment.

• Proven track record of quality assurance and control in line delivery.

• Strong leadership skills to guide and mentor team members.

• Proficiency in Tosca test automation and agile test planning.

• Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

• PolicyCenter Experience: Experience with PolicyCenter preferred.

 

What You’ll Do:

•  Plan Testing Within Agile Sprints: Contribute to sprint planning by aligning test strategies with development priorities, ensuring testing is seamlessly integrated into agile workflows.

• Lead Testing Efforts: Take the reins on coordinating testing activities across the team, providing direction and ensuring alignment with project goals.

• Design and Run Tests: Develop and execute comprehensive test cases with a focus on end-to-end coverage, while maintaining and enhancing test suites over time.

• Collaborate Across Teams: Communicate effectively and work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is a shared responsibility.

• Utilize Quality Engineering Tools: Apply the right tools to manage test data, automate test cases, perform security and performance testing, and run regression tests efficiently.

• Automate with Tosca: Use Tosca and other enterprise-grade automation tools to streamline testing processes and support lean, scalable testing practices.

• Build End-to-End Test Coverage: Define, create, and maintain tests that validate complete business workflows from start to finish.

• Develop a Test Data Strategy: Establish strategies for managing test data that support both broad and targeted testing scenarios, identifying patterns to enhance functional testing.

Ready to engineer quality that makes a difference? Apply now and help us build better, smarter, and faster!

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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.

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