Consultant, Quality Engineer

* ** 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.
*** Oversees procedures to ensure all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements.
* Serves as an expert in the analysis and reviews requirements, user stories and technical work products to create the automation needed.
* Responsible for applying secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
* Defines and manages multiple test plans, strategies, results reporting and metrics.
* Uses the appropriate quality engineering tools to define test data management, test automation, security/vulnerability, performance, and regression testing needs.
* Manages moderate to complex defects including identifying, tracking, and providing critical thinking for resolution.
* Considers and drives the end users’ experience during the software development life cycle.
* Is proactive in managing leading indicators of quality in test plans and approaches while ensuring speed and efficiency.
* Partners with Infrastructure & Operations and Architecture on test data and environment management plans.
* Sets the release test strategy (including all release life cycle testing phases).
* Oversees the coordination of all release testing efforts (including all phases of testing during the release life cycle).
* Aligns with the Nationwide automated testing reference architecture.
* Complies with release management process governance and timelines throughout the release.
* Acts as a source of direction for associates.

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more.

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