QA Automation Engineer

At Mission Underwriters, we provide the capital, issuing paper, and reinsurance access you need to launch your own Program Administrator (PA) business quickly and efficiently. We offer non-recourse capital for qualified underwriters, giving you a manageable risk profile with potential equity upside. By taking care of administrative complexities like compliance, risk management, accounting, and HR, we free you to focus on what you do best underwriting and distribution. Our turnkey platform gets you into the market in just a few months, minimizing disruption to your key relationships. With access to our network of highly rated issuing carriers and reinsurance partners, you can secure coverage with less stress and uncertainty. Built from the ground up, our purpose-driven technology simplifies workflows, enhances responsiveness, and eliminates the burden of outdated legacy systems.

What We Offer

• 401K, 401K Match
• Life and Disability Benefits
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Employee Discounts
• Employee Assistance Program
• Educational Assistance Program
• Employee Referral Program

About the Role

The QA Automation Engineer will primarily focus on creating and executing the automation testing strategy using Mission’s BDD framework. The QA Automation Engineer role will report into the Quality Engineering (QE) Manager and will be responsible for enabling reliable builds by contributing to and maintaining an automated test suite using Selenium framework. The candidate will work with internal stakeholders and external partners to ensure Mission’s priorities and standards are upheld. An ideal candidate will be passionate about enforcing best practices, writing reliable automated scripts, and prototyping innovative approaches to advance and fortify automation testing.

What You'll Do

• Design, develop, and execute automated tests based on Mission’s BDD framework.
• Collaborate with third party team members as well as project managers, business analysts and developers to understand timelines, features, frameworks, and workflows to develop test scripts.
• Understand and prioritize test script creation based on risk and timelines.
• Advocate for quality and automation where it delivers value to Mission and our programs.
• Create mitigation strategies, based on trends, to limit risk and maintainability to the code base.
• Maintain and deliver results and reports of automation execution in a timely manner.
• Assist in creation of a maintainable strategy for automation testing across different platforms.
• Collaborate with cross-functional key stakeholders to share risks, defects, issues, and dependencies and to identify opportunities for optimization and improvement.
• Utilize delivery methods like Agile, Scrum, SAFe, etc to deliver high quality products for end users.
• Create test scripts, test data, and scenarios based on functional and non-functional requirements.
• Design and maintain automation framework including selecting appropriate tools and technologies, building reusable components, and ensuring scalability and maintainability of the infrastructure.
• Maintain automated testing environments, data, and configuration across sprints.
• Validate that automated tests are seamlessly integrated into the build and deployment processes [CI/CD pipeline] for continuous feedback and faster releases.
• Analyze failed tests, identify and log defects, and work with development teams to resolve issues.
• Stay up to date with the latest trends in test automation and recommend improvements.
• Assist in the development and implementation of quality-driven strategies and initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (B.S.) or equivalent from an accredited four-year college in computer science, information science, information technology, or a related field.
• 2+ years of related experience in quality engineering role.
• 2+ years of related experience in a hands-on automation quality engineering role.
• 2+ years of related experience utilizing tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, ALM, etc… for test case management and execution.
• 2+ years of related experience in the P&C insurance industry and regulatory environment.
• Experience with Policy Administration Systems across Policy and Billing functions (i.e., Guidewire, Duckcreek, Origami, QuickSolver etc…)
• Ability to travel up to 10% of the year.
• Self-driven and ability to adapt quickly to a fast-paced and evolving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Selenium (Java) based automation.
• Experience with modular and microservice based architecture.
• Experience creating and executing automated tests for APIs, backend, and data ingestion.
• Experience with version control tools (Git).

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Outstanding organizational, prioritization, and multitasking skills.
• Strong time management skills and ability to exceed deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to effectively communicate technical findings to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.

Working Conditions

Requires a quiet work environment with regular sitting at a computer for extended periods of time. Regular use of hands and fingers. Frequent talking or hearing. Vision requirements: Close, distance, color, peripheral, focus and depth perception.

Additional Information

This is a remote position. Planned, in-office activities may be required on occasion (typically 2-4x per year). You must live in the United States and be authorized to work in the United States without requirement of employment sponsorship/visa.