Senior Quality Automation Engineer

Job Classification:

Technology - Engineering & Cloud

Are you interested in building capabilities that enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency? The Global Technology team takes great pride in our culture where digital transformation is built into our DNA! When you join our organization at Prudential, you’ll unlock an exciting and impactful career – all while growing your skills and advancing your profession at one of the world’s leading financial services institutions.

Your Team & Role
As a Senior Quality Automation Engineer on/in Chief Data Office you will partner with tech leads, designers, engineers, and delivery professionals to improve AIML. You will integrate tools and frameworks to run automated tests, design complex test infrastructure and select tools for implementation. You will help create highly resilient applications as you implement capabilities to solve sophisticated business problems, deploy innovative products, services and experiences to delight our customers! In addition to applied experience, you will bring excellent problem solving, communication and teamwork skills, along with agile ways of working, strong business insight, an inclusive leadership attitude and a continuous learning focus to all that you do.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day
• Follow best practices for testing approach and scenarios to automate functional and non-functional tests; remove complex technical impediments
• Leverage and extend testing frameworks as required, focuses on a wide variety of testing techniques writing reusable scripts/tools that the team and software engineers use for automation
• Validate requirements are delivered to assure overall quality, continually perform regression testing as necessary and apply exploratory and risk based testing
• Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to find opportunities to provide guidance to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to Python, Java, or JavaScript

The Skills & Expertise You Bring
• Bachelor of Computer Science or Engineering or experience in related fields
• Leverage diverse ideas, experiences, thoughts and perspectives to the benefit of the organization
• Experience with agile development methodologies and Test-Driven Development (TDD)
• Knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business
• Ability to learn new skills and knowledge on an on-going basis through self-initiative and tackling challenges
• Excellent problem solving, communication and collaboration skills
• Applied experience with several of the following:
o Core Testing Tools: Unit, interface and end user testing concepts and tooling inclusive of non-functional requirements (performance, usability, reliability, security/ vulnerability scanning etc.); Ensure code aligns with Test Driven Development Cycle principles; write unit, integration tests and basic functional automation
o Programming Languages: Java, Python or Javascript
o Frameworks: Drools - Business Rules Management System (BRMS)
o DevOps Tools & Practices: DevOps automation tools, SDLC coding standards, code review, source control management
o Security: Understanding of security impacts and how testing can ensure security; Includes how security is integrated into DevOps (DevSecOps)
o API Consumption and validation
o JSON
o Jira Xray

• Preferred qualifications:
o Financial/Insurance industry knowledge is a plus, not a must


You’ll Love Working Here Because You Can
Join a team and culture where your voice matters; where every day, your work transforms our experiences to make lives better. As you put your skills to use, we’ll help you make an even bigger impact with learning experiences that can grow your technical AND leadership capabilities. You’ll be surprised by what this rock-solid organization has in store for you.

Note: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $90,100.00 to $134,100.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills. Roles may also be eligible for additional compensation and/or benefits. Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, i