Consultant, Quality Engineer

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.

Looking to add an experienced Quality Engineer to help build a quality excellence program with repeatable and predictable processes. Demonstrated abilities to build meaningful reporting metrics to measure performance of the testing program, delivery of code to Quality Engineering, the ability to prevent production escapes and drive improvement to overall availability.

Help with the creation of the overall testing program for the Group Benefits team. Skills and qualifications using Playwright is a plus as that is the platform that will be used for Group Health Benefits.

• Own and evolve the QA program for assigned application suites, including defining testing strategies, standards, and best practices across manual and automated testing.
• Lead and mentor Quality Engineers and other delivery team members (directly and through matrixed leadership) in QA practices, test design techniques, and effective defect prevention and detection.
• Drive change in QA processes and tooling by identifying gaps, recommending improvements, gaining alignment across stakeholders, and overseeing implementation and adoption.

• Strong analytical and communication skills, including the ability to clearly articulate quality risks, trade-offs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Deep knowledge of QA/QE planning, test design techniques, and quality risk management.
• Strong development skills with focus on automated testing. Preference for Playwright but experiences with other automation tools such as Tosca, Selenium or others are acceptable. Programming skills in .Net, Angular, etc. is preferred.
• Experience with using CI/CD is expected. Azure Dev Ops is preferred. Jira (Git Hub) or other management tools are acceptable.
• Ability to work on multiple projects and releases concurrently, solve problems, and set priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional teams and gain alignment for quality-related changes in process, tooling, and ways of working.
• Comfortable leading through change and ambiguity, with a continuous improvement and servant‑leadership mindset.

Our preference is for this role will be filled in a hybrid capacity, with collaboration taking place in one of our office locations in Columbus, OH, Scottsdale, AZ, or Des Moines, IA two days a week on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization.

Nationwide does not participate in the StemOPT Extension program.

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!

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