Quality Assurance Engineer

Description

Excellence. Trust. Mutual Respect.

Do these words resonate with you? If so, Keep reading and apply below!

These values of Builders culture create success in all we do. We strive to provide deeply supportive partnerships to our customers, agents, and each other.

Builders is proud to be named one of the top workplaces USA with top marks in Company Direction, Employee Appreciation, Work-Life Balance, Leadership, and Compensation and Benefits. Our strong culture keeps us Built Strong in a forever-changing world, and our AM Best A Rating is evidence of our financial strength.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Execute comprehensive automated and manual functional testing based on analysis and understanding of the requirements and deployment environment. Verifies those test results through analysis of user interfaces, databases, printed output, and data transmissions.
• Analyzes requirements (solution comments, design specifications, and other documentation) and creates test cases to exercise product functionality.
• Build, execute and maintain automated test scripts, assuring continuous testing process.
• Help establish automation best practices and drive adoption across the QA team.
• Participate in Agile events (daily stand ups, sprint planning, grooming, and sprint retrospectives)
• Participate in sprint demos to showcase progress to the business stakeholders
• Liaise, document and communicate (with developers and/or product owners) to resolve issues found during testing. Performs thorough regression testing when defects resolved.
• Estimate, prioritize, plan and co-ordinate testing activities.
• Work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution
• May assist in troubleshooting customer‐reported issues. Identifying and documenting defects.
• Conduct post release/post implementation testing
• Stay up to date with new testing tools and test strategies

Qualifications

Qualifications and Preferred skills

• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Tester or similar role
• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• Experience testing interfaces between several systems
• Software defect tracking experience including ability to create detailed test plans
• Experience producing defect reports
• Experience with SQL queries, basic programing and scripting
• Experience with API testing and microservices.
• Good database skills.
• Ability to communicate with and present to engineers, senior management and relevant stakeholders.
• Experience as part of an Agile development team preferred
• Experience handling changing priorities.
• Critical Thinking/ Problem solving
• Strong time management and organizational skills, analytical ability, and attention to detail required
• Insurance industry experience preferred
• Guidewire experience preferred

Experience in data warehouse (validation) testing a plus

Let’s talk benefits!

• Competitive Salary
• Bonus Structure
• Profit Sharing
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Employer Paid Short Term Disability
• Employer Paid Long Term Disability
• Employer Paid Life Insurance
• Voluntary Life Insurance
• 401K with Company Match
• PTO

About Builders

Builders is a mid-sized mutual with remarkable strengths. Rated A by AM Best, Builders has forged rock-solid financial strength and a reputation for reliability and fairness in fulfilling our promises to customers. Kind, collaborative, and customer-centric, our experienced and passionate teams foster a rewarding atmosphere of excellence, trust, and mutual respect, meriting the “Culture Excellence” honors from Top Workplaces. Flexible and highly personal, our experts leverage deeply supportive partnerships with knowledgeable independent agencies to drive better services and protection for policyholders.

Our financial excellence, amazing people, and powerful partnerships build outstanding outcomes and peace of mind for our agents and their clients. This is what we mean by Insurance Built Strong®.