Job Description

Date Opened: Aug 26, 2022 Location: IN Company: Allstate Insurance Company

Are you enthusiastic about quality and want to make an impact in both technology and the business? Are you skilled in test automation? The Test Engineer Consultant II, provides Test execution on software development projects, focusing on the creation/ execution of functional and automated test scripts for low to medium complex projects including database validation and web services testing. They are responsible for developing the test plans for the team and are the quality champion responsible for identifying acceptance criteria and defining the test conditions when stories or requirements are created.

Job Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Create and maintain automation test cases within a defined framework to ensure quality and support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline
• Decompose stories to be able to write effective acceptance criteria and automated test scripts for low to medium complexity projects
• Provide input into test strategy and develop test strategy for low/medium complexity projects
• Quality advocate within their team
• Provide input into environment needs for low/medium complexity projects
• Understand issues related to the test infrastructure and escalate within team
• Participate in an environment where Test/Behavior-Driven Development is fostered
• Document, analyze and communicate bugs/issues accurately and clearly
• Interact with Development and Testing Teams
• Participate in Scrum Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities – prepared to take on any role within an Agile team
• Participate in Sprint planning, release planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives
• Ability to work in a very fast paced development organization

Primary Skills

• Minimum 4 years software testing experience
• Practical experience using performance testing tools (e.g. LoadRunner, ALM performance center, JMeter)
• Experience creating load test scripts with at least one of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, AJAX, Java
• Experience constructing test plans and executing these plans across functional, regression, system, performance, stress and load testing
• Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace/Graffana/Datadog
• Experience using test management tools (e.g. HPQC, Jira – Zephyr, VersionOne)

Experience

• Minimum 4 years software testing experience
• Practical experience using performance testing tools (e.g. LoadRunner, ALM performance center, JMeter)
• Experience creating load test scripts with at least one of the following protocols: HTTP, SOAP, AJAX, Java
• Experience constructing test plans and executing these plans across functional, regression, system, performance, stress and load testing
• Knowledge and understanding of CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with monitoring tools like Dynatrace/Graffana/Datadog
• Experience using test management tools (e.g. HPQC, Jira – Zephyr, VersionOne)

Shift Timing

1:00 to 9:30 PM