Staff Test Engineer
$123,078–$170,941 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Lead the creation and execution of high-level test strategies for complex software projects, driving an automation-first approach integrated into CI/CD pipelines. Design and manage comprehensive testing strategies across large-scale features, overseeing both manual and automated efforts to maximize coverage and minimize production defects. Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and product teams to ensure requirements clarity and quality standards, while mentoring senior engineers and establishing best practices for test documentation and defect management. Drive continuous improvement initiatives by analyzing testing metrics to enhance efficiency and champion the integration of emerging technologies and industry-leading tools into the workflow.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 8+ yrs industry experience, hands-on experience leading testing teams on medium-sized projects
- 3+ yrs of experience writing complex automation tests
- Exposure to Insurance Industry
- Exposure to leveraging AI in testing
- Time Management: Ability to lead the management of multiple, large testing projects across different teams or business units. Ensures high-level coordination and timely delivery while maintaining quality standards.
- Collaboration and Communication: Ability to lead discussion for task-specific collaboration, conveying precise technical details, responding to immediate issues, and ensuring clarity in resolving task and project-level challenges.
- Testing Methodologies: Able to define and drive best practices across the team, ensuring that test methodologies are scalable and efficient.
- Attention to Detail: Has exceptional ability to detect and resolve subtle, complex defects that could significantly impact user experience, application performance, or business objectives.
- Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Able to demonstrate expertise at solving highly complex issues and system-level problems. Leads troubleshooting efforts across multiple teams and defines strategies for long-term solutions that address root causes.
- Requirements Analysis: Ability to analyze complex product requirements and works independently to define the testing approach. Partners with stakeholders to ensure all aspects of the requirements are covered by testing, addressing ambiguities and gaps.
- Defect Tracking Management and Documentation tools: Expert in managing defects and ensuring efficient resolution. Skilled at identifying trends and driving improvements.
- Automation Scripting: Ability to write and maintain more complex automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, TestNG, or similar.
- API Testing: Advanced skills in API testing and validating complex API functionalities using tools like Postman, SoapUI, and custom scripts.
- Adaptability and Flexibility: Proficient leading adaptation to changing requirements, code designs and implementation changes, new technologies, methods to solve problems, shift priorities, workstyle and responsibilities.
- Product Knowledge: Leads domain-specific strategy development, ensuring testing efforts are aligned with industry standards, customer needs, and business objectives. Acts as a subject matter expert for testing in specific domains.
Desired Qualifications
- 7 or more years of white box testing experience
- 5 or more years of experience in automation testing
- 3 or more years of experience with Java or Python
- 3 or more years of experience testing UI and APIs
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