Company: Allied Benefit Systems
Position: Senior QA Automation Engineer
Experience: 4 to 7 years
Work Location - Chicago, IL
About the job
Description
Would you like to be part of a growing national healthcare solutions company? Are you looking to positively affect thousands of lives each day via health benefits? Do you have experience developing automation tests for Microsoft’s platform?
We are hiring for a Senior QA Automation Engineer to join our team.
Who We Are
Allied is a national healthcare solutions company that supports healthy workplace cultures.
What We Do
We are problem-solvers, innovators, and collaborators. Our purpose is to work with employers to take care of their employees and their families every day – and it all starts with the Allied family.
What’s in it for you?
Allied supports an inclusive culture focused on developing employees to succeed, innovate & impact the community.
Here’s How We Do It
Training and Development: Allied offers tailored learning and development curriculums for all employees and a Learning Management Database with thousands of courses for professional and personal development.
Career Mobility: Growth opportunities are endless at Allied. In 2021 alone, one in five employees had a job change. 75% of these job changes were promotions!
Employee Engagement: We pride ourselves on employee engagement! With our recognition program, employees recognize their colleagues monthly or donate to charities with cash rewards. Allied has a dedicated committee planning monthly engagement activities to create endless opportunities to get to know your peers and destress in this new remote world.
Employee Feedback: We regularly survey our employees throughout the year to seek continuous feedback, ideas and suggestions on new initiatives.
Community Outreach: We have dedicated committees focused on fundraising efforts supporting our employees and their families, furthering education goals and providing funds for charitable organizations outside of Allied.
What will you be doing?
The Senior Automation Engineer will be responsible for the architecture of Allied’s automation framework. This role will also be responsible to mentor other automation engineers and implement best practices for QA department. In addition, the senior automation engineer will take ownership of QA standards and automate existing manual QA processes.
Essential Functions
- Work in an agile environment
- Contribute to success of project by completing daily scrum tasks
- Create/review and maintain automation test scripts
- Create CI/CD pipelines in Azure Dev Ops
- Take ownership of Automation setup, Smoke testing and Regression testing
- Mentor and grow automation engineers
- Work closely with developers to build out automation tests
- Meet Allied’s expectations for productivity, quality, and goal accomplishment.
- Work closely with manager to complete assigned tasks
- Adhere to, and apply all applicable privacy and security laws, including but not limited to HIPAA, HITECH and any regulations promulgated thereto.
- Perform other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
- Attend continuing education classes as required, including but not limited to HIPAA training.
Desired
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- 4 to 7 years’ experience developing automation tests for Microsoft’s platform
- Extensive experience writing automation tests using the following:
- Selenium WebDriver
- Postman
- GIT or Jenkins
- Testing experience in Web Services/API endpoints
- SQL and scripting
- Katalon
- Thorough understanding of data requirements, ability to mock test data
- Design and develop automation testing architecture
- Strong understanding of SOLID and OOP
- Mentor other automation engineers
- Understanding of SDLC lifecycle
- Coding experience in Microsoft tech stack, C#, .Net
- Experience automating stored procedures
- Excellent ability to debug and troubleshoot all areas of the technology stack
- Maintain high standards of data quality and integrity
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred
- Familiarity with Healthcare industry
- Familiarity with testing legacy systems like VB6 and classic ASP
EDUCATION
BS degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, OR equivalent degree.
Physical Demands
This is an office environment requiring extended sitting and computer work.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Remote
Hiring is contingent upon successful completion of our background and drug screening process. Allied is a drug-free and tobacco-free workplace.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: Allied is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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