Senior QA Automation Engineer | Chicago, IL

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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