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Product Test Architect
Allstate
Northbrook, IL, United States
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Job Description
The FLIGHT Test Engineer family is an active and integral participant on software development teams. The FLIGHT Test Engineer supports all test strategy and coordination, planning, creation and execution activities for multiple test types identified as in-scope, champions overall quality efforts, identifies and defines acceptance criteria and test conditions, and creates and executes test scenarios that validate application acceptance criteria.
Job Summary
The FLIGHT Test Product Architect is a technical leader in the organization. This position could also be referred to as a Software Engineer in Test (SDET). The FLIGHT Test Product Architect provides oversight and guidance across quality control automation throughout the organization and focuses on the creation/execution of automated test scripts on medium to high complexity projects. Also, the individual provides direction and leadership on test strategy, script execution, test automation framework and test environment design, designs and implements test automation architecture and designs, modifies and enhances the test automation framework.
Key Responsibilities
• In an agile/scrum environment, may:
• Execute practical application of Agile framework components (user stories, scrum, sprints, etc.).
• Participate in Scrum, Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities – prepared to take on any role within the Agile team
• Participate in Sprint planning and release planning
• Participate in backlog refinement
• Define acceptance criteria when stories are created
• For activities related to Test Management, may:
• Decompose business requirements to be able to write effective acceptance criteria and automated test scripts for medium to high complexity projects
• Provide consultation on the most complex testing strategies
• Design, develop, implement and maintain high complexity modifications to test automation architecture and functional, mobile, performance or web services framework
• Lead in definition and implementation of direction on automation techniques and adherence to standards
• Execute test cases within the Functional, Mobile, Performance or Web Services Automation framework
• Create test data and identify environment needs for high complexity projects
• Ensure software quality via continuous and iterative testing approach
• Understand and provide oversight on the test infrastructure
• Create, consult and maintain an environment where a Test Driven Development behavior is fostered
• Create and validate automated scripts that support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Consult and provide direction on test environment issues; act as SME for external environment team communications
• Apply Testing Lifecycle Management principles in the context of a product
• Possess technical competency to interact with application developers to ensure software quality
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience
• 4+ years of manual & automation testing experience of N-tier applications
• 4+ years of experience with SDLC
• 2+ years of experience with Agile Scrum
• 2+ years of software development experience (Java preferred)
• 4+ years of Test Automation Development experience with open source and market-leading vended solutions creating functional, regression, or performance tests
• 1+ years of Relational Database Management (Oracle, SQL, MySQL) SQL and Data Validation are essential
• Experience with testing Web Services
• Strong Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Problem Solving Skills
• Understanding of Performance Testing
• • Leverages Agile/Scrum-enabling test execution tools. Experience with the following tools:
• Agile Planning tool (e.g. JIRA)
• Functional Test Automation (e.g. Selenium WebDriver, UFT)
• Mobile Test Automation (e.g. Perfecto Mobile, Appium)
• Web Service Testing Tools (e.g. CA LISA, SoapUI, other WS tools)
• Relational Database Management (e.g. Oracle, SQL, MySQL)
• Defect Management (e.g. HP Quality Center)
• Source Code Management Tools (e.g. Git, TFS, RTC)
• IDE (e.g. Eclipse, Visual Studio, Xcode, Android Studio)
• Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Hudson)
• Testing on Cloud using Sauce lab or Perfecto
• BDD automation using Cucumber or JBehave
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
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