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ID #45925209
State California
City San diego
Job type Permanent
Salary USD TBD TBD
Source ICW Group (Insurance Company of the West)
Showed 2022-09-23
Date 2022-09-22
Deadline 2022-11-20
Category Et cetera
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QA Engineer Lead

California, San diego, 92128 San diego USA

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Are you looking for more than just a job? Do you want to have a voice and feel a sense of belonging? At ICW Group, we hire innovative people who consistently adapt, grow and deliver. We believe in hard work, a fun work environment, and embracing creativity that only comes about when talented people collaborate to develop solutions. Our mission is to create the best insurance experience possible.

Headquartered in San Diego with regional offices located throughout the United States, ICW Group has been named for seven consecutive years as a Top 50 performing P&C company offering the stability of a large, profitable and growing company combined with a small-company entrepreneurial spirit. Our purpose-driven ethos provides team members with opportunities to contribute, develop, and belong.

Amazing new opportunity to create, maintain, negotiate, and establish in-house quality standards and specifications, and act as consultant to developmental and operational processes, quality practices, and quality audits. This position exists to ensure design quality while making sure that the software adheres to quality standards set for testing all software products that are either built in-house or configured on the cloud. This position will also be responsible for leading transformation efforts where automated tests are performed in a continuous integration environment.

Hybrid position - will need to report to the San Diego office 2-3 times a week.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Defines, develops, and implements Quality Engineering activities to support business strategy.
  • Performs requirement and design analysis; identifying key features and associated priority to determine the best test approach.
  • Manages all quality aspects of the design control process: quality planning, verification and validation planning and execution, risk management and regulatory and compliance support.
  • Provides support for all activities by participating in initial process design, development, and implementation phases.
  • Interfaces with internal partners to resolve technical issues and initiates process improvements.
  • Takes initiative to identify and solve technical and procedural deficiencies to improve productivity along with identifying alternatives and trade-offs to provide detailed information to be used in planning process.
Provides Quality Engineering oversight.
  • Provides QAE review and approval of tests generated by the team.
  • Provides expertise in critical areas of quality to business and IT, and influences project test solutions.
  • Represents the Quality department on cross-functional teams across the IT organization.
  • Creates and implements test frameworks demonstrating usability, maintainability, and scalability in addition to software build, release, and configuration management process along with other teams.
  • Provides oversight for agile development practices, continuous integration, and continuous deployment.
  • Created test labs for mobile and application specific testing.
  • Plays an advisory role on best practices around data integration.
  • Develops and maintains automated test harnesses and libraries.
  • Serves as a Subject Matter Expert for IT and business initiatives that directly have an impact focusing on software quality, workflow, client experience, and enhancement efficiency.
Acts as a team leader.
  • Provides second level response for Quality and Compliance issues and
  • Uses data trends to work with the business to facilitate process improvements.
  • Creates and implements efficient and productive processes that improve testing procedures across QAE team members.
  • Leads efforts to increase overall usability and quality of the software products through implementation and management of quality processes.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO THE ROLE
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems (or similar) and/or equivalent work experience.
  • At least 7 years' experience in similar position with at least 6 years of IT and/or relevant business experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

Certificated Software Test Engineer (CSTE) or International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB) preferred. CP-SAT Selenium Automation Testing certification preferred. Foundation level API certification preferred.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
  • Ability to evaluate current test procedures and drive optimization. Ability to organize and motivate a team, analyze and resolve risks, promote and execute quality standards.
  • Has a solid engineering foundation indicates by a demonstrated understanding of product design, life cycle, software development and support services.
  • Complex project management experience. Leadership experience in a matrix organization.
  • Work effectively in both Agile/Scrum and Waterfall (for specific external vendor-led efforts) frameworks.
  • Ability to quickly understand and gain domain expertise in highly complex existing application and architecture.
  • Automation feasibility definition and hands-on execution experience; ability to train others on automation practices and tools.
  • Ability to design, create, implement automated test cases for complex features.
  • Desire to seek continuous improvement in the quality assurance practices.
  • Experience mentoring junior QA team members. Knowledge of Insurance Industry best practices and business workflows a plus and Industry standard certification in Quality Assurance is strong desired.
  • Good understanding in details, the complexity and intricacies of software testing methodologies and software development plan.
  • Empowers and coordinates QA teams to meet the product and project objectives on quality assurance.
  • Experience working with Selenium a plus.
  • Good working knowledge of testing SOAP and RESTful API.

WHY JOIN ICW GROUP?
  • A flexible work schedule, hybrid and remote opportunities
  • Challenging work and the ability to make a difference
  • You will have a voice and feel a sense of belonging
  • We offer a competitive benefits package, with generous medical, dental, and vision plans as well as 401K retirement plans
  • Want to continue learning? We'll support you 100%
ICW Group is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. ICW Group will not discriminate against an applicant or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex/gender, age, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.

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