Specialist, Quality Engineer - Test Automation Developer

Overview

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s 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.

• Design and implement automated test suites
  • Analyze functional and non‑functional requirements, story acceptance criteria, and test strategies to identify scenarios suitable for automation.
  • Design and develop automated tests for web UI, APIs, services, and integrations using approved Nationwide toolsets with focus on Playwright.
  • Implement data‑driven and parameterized tests to support broad coverage across data variations and configuration options.
• Build and maintain test automation frameworks
  • Configure, extend, and support test frameworks and utilities (e.g., page‑object patterns, service clients, shared libraries) to promote reuse and maintainability.
  • Treat test automation as a first‑class application: design, architect, refactor, and manage test code with the same engineering rigor as product code.
  • Contribute to and follow Nationwide’s Test Automation Reference Architecture, standards, and quality engineering practices.
• Enable fast, reliable regression and release validation
  • Develop and maintain regression, smoke, and acceptance test suites that can be executed on demand and/or via CI/CD for each release and deployment pipeline.
  • Optimize suites for speed, stability, and coverage, focusing on automation where it provides the greatest value.
  • Manual and automated testing to support the various stages of testing including Smoke, Functional, Regression, Performance, Stress, Business Continuity, Penetration Testing, etc.
  • Support production/staging verification by running appropriate non‑destructive automated checks to build confidence in releases.
• Integrate automation into CI/CD and Dev Ops practices
  • Integrate automated tests into common CI/CD tools (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Harness, Jenkins) so tests run as part of pull requests, nightly runs, and release pipelines.
  • Collaborate with Dev Ops engineers to ensure test suites are reliable in shared environments and provide actionable feedback when failures occur.
  • Contribute to test reporting and quality dashboards (e.g., via Azure Dev Ops (for Group Health Benefits), Cucumber reports, Splunk) to make test results transparent to the team.
• Partner across the line and guilds
  • Work closely with developers, manual testers, analysts, and product owners to align on test strategy, acceptance criteria, and automation priorities.
  • Participate in Three Amigos / story elaboration sessions to shape testable requirements and define “done” with automation in mind.
  • Engage with Quality Engineering and Test Automation Guild communities to share patterns, accelerators, and best practices; adopt approved standards and tools from those communities.
• Quality and test data stewardship
  • Help plan and manage test data and environments required for reliable automation, leveraging approved test data and environment management approaches where applicable.
  • Ensure automated tests contribute meaningfully to coverage and risk reduction, using test optimization and design techniques where appropriate.

• Experience in software quality assurance with hands‑on test automation development responsibilities (not just framework usage).
• Proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language commonly used at Nationwide for test automation and core to Group Health Benefits (e.g., .Net, C#, Angular, Java script, Python, Bash or similar).
• Skilled in SQL, Oracle or other relational database technologies with proficiency to write queries to support testing needs.
• Practical experience implementing automated tests using modern frameworks, ideally including:
• Preference for experience with Playwright or other browser‑based UI and end‑to‑end testing.
• Demonstrated ability to:
• Analyze requirements and user…