Principal Test Engineer at Liberty Mutual Insurance

Leads Development of systems testing strategies, plans, cases and conditions; tests and monitors testing efforts; responsible for system testing across multiple environments and for applying standards and quality assurance principles.

Qualifications

• Bachelor`s or Master`s degree in technical discipline or a related discipline and at least eight years` experience in a systems quality environment, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience
• Requires experience with automated testing and modeling tools, and a broad knowledge of business modeling, process engineering, change management and test case generation techniques
• Ability to plan and implement all aspects of the testing process in application areas that have no current testing support
• Requires excellent analytical ability, consultative and communication skills, strong judgment and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff
• Ability to learn and adapt to change effectively
• Demonstrates extensive knowledge of development concepts and industry trends/direction for cloud technologies and CI/CD concepts, specifically how to implement testing automation within the pipelines
• Knowledge of quality measurement; status reporting

Description

Leads Development of systems testing strategies, plans, cases and conditions; tests and monitors testing efforts; responsible for system testing across multiple environments and for applying standards and quality assurance principles. Leads Development efforts to create test automation frameworks, establishes test automation strategies and helps with implementation and execution of automated tests. Conducts technology / tool evaluations focused on testing, provides recommendations, and assists with selection & adoption of ideal solutions. Develops new or modified Test Engineering procedures and standards and assists in the development and implementation of test metrics for assessing the quality of delivered application software. Contributes expert knowledge of testing systems, processes and methodologies with client, IT management and staff throughout the project life cycle, to assist and support the design, development and implementation of effective systems. Provides guidance in the creation and introduction of critical shift-left techniques. Directly responsible for projects or subprojects of significant technical complexity; leads projects including developing project plans, assigning tasks and facilitating team process. Receives general direction and is competent to work at the highest level of all technical phases of software testing. Provides coaching and guidance to other team members.

This a range posting for Principal Test Engineer and Senior Test Engineer

Responsibilities

Builds test engineering processes and procedures that can be used across the enterprise for effective testing of all application sprints running on varied technical platforms. Collaborate with developers and architects to promote enterprise shift-left techniques and whitebox/graybox testing objectives such as: ' Code coverage analysis ' Static code analysis / tooling ' Service virtualization ' Continuous integration ' Automated build and deploy ' Continuous delivery ' Test driven / behavior driven development Initiate and lead strategic quality initiatives for the department (e.g. test data management, environment virtualization, security testing) Provides technical vision for highly complex ideas and issues to varied audiences including various management levels communicates project objectives, scope and direction across project teams. Consults on major, complex design considerations. Provides guidance in the selection of project structure/methodology, work schedules, cost estimates and responsible for managing QA effort to defined plan. Leads a variety of quality assurance reviews of business requirements, system design and user acceptance test. Implements testing automation within the pipelines and provide quality status reports. Performs holistic system performance analysis and testing. Mentors junior test engineers.

Qualifications

Bachelor`s or Master`s degree in technical discipline or a related discipline and at least eight years` experience in a systems quality environment, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience

Requires experience with automated testing and modeling tools, and a broad knowledge of business modeling, process engineering, change management and test case generation techniques

Ability to plan and implement all aspects of the testing process in application areas that have no current testing support

Requires excellent analytical ability, consultative and communication skills, strong judgment and the ability to work effectively with client and IT management and staff

Ability to learn and adapt to change effectively

Demonstrates extensive knowledge of development concepts and industry trends/direction for cloud technologies and CI/CD concepts, specifically how to implement testing automation within the pipelines

Knowledge of quality measurement; status reporting

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