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Description
We are looking for a Principal Test Engineer to join a technology squad that is building out a robust Underwriting Referral Rules Engine in our Safeco Independent Agent channel. You'll have the opportunity to work in an agile scrum environment and collaborate closely with other Engineers, a Product Owner, Quality Assurance Analysts, and technology leadership. Proper and successful execution of this role will involve fluency in test automation frameworks, attention to detail, understanding of business processes, and unwavering dedication to software quality. If you're a curious learner who has a penchant for getting things done, thrives on solving challenging technical problems, and enjoy working on high-visibility business solutions, we want you to join our tech team!

• Responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of automated test solutions
• 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
• Implements testing automation within the pipelines and provide quality status reports
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Performs holistic system performance analysis and testing
• Mentors junior test engineers

• Bachelors or Masters 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

• California
• San Francisco
• Los Angeles
• Philadelphia