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Western & Southern Financial Group · 10 hours ago

Automation Engineer

Cincinnati, OH

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

Western & Southern Financial Group is seeking an Automation Engineer to work closely with the program testing manager to define functional test automation strategy and processes. The role involves creating and maintaining a program level automation testing strategy, mentoring test automation developers, and enhancing testing efficiency.

Financial ServicesHealth InsuranceInsurance

Hiring Manager

Abbie Burkhardt

Responsibilities

Implements and develops the test automation framework for UI and middleware for given sets of system components – web, mainframe, web services, database, documents, xml

Ensures optimum use of the existing test automation tool set in conjunction with use of open source tools with the objective of providing faster, better and cost-effective solutions to the testing teams

Reviews the regression scenarios selected for automation, assesses automation feasibility and provides recommendations on maximizing automation of regression suite supported by the technical inputs

Creates and publishes program level test automation dashboard on a weekly basis; works with points of contact across different programs, projects and work streams to collate data to generate automation metrics

Reviews project test strategies and test plans to make recommendations on automating functional testing of new requirements and influencing the testing approach for better ROI

Writes custom code in required programming language to achieve desired integration across different test harness tools, enabling data flow and custom reporting

Writes custom controls in required programming language to integrate with deployment tools, test environments, and application components, such as firewalls, ACF2, web services, UI, databases, and xml

Demonstrates expertise in SQL and joins queries to generate complex reports

Demonstrates expertise in API and web services to be able to consume testing tools APIs exposed by the applications

Reviews and accepts test scripts created or modified by the team for compliance with coding standards and sanctity of the centralized reusable test script library

Provides continuous integration (CI) development support to the build master and implements/improves build test processes, environments, and scripts to ensure that the code drops to quality assurance are of the highest quality

Mentors the automation developers and the program’s functional testing teams to build expertise around the automation tool, framework and through leadership

Qualification

Test automation frameworkSQL expertiseAPIWeb servicesCustom codingContinuous integration (CI)Automation metricsMentoring

Required

Experience in defining functional test automation strategy and processes

Experience in creating, executing and maintaining a program level automation testing strategy and automation test framework

Ability to implement and develop the test automation framework for UI and middleware

Experience with web, mainframe, web services, database, documents, xml

Ability to ensure optimum use of existing test automation tool set and open source tools

Experience in reviewing regression scenarios for automation and providing recommendations

Ability to create and publish program level test automation dashboard

Experience in reviewing project test strategies and test plans for automation recommendations

Ability to write custom code in required programming language for integration across different test harness tools

Ability to write custom controls in required programming language for integration with deployment tools and application components

Expertise in SQL and joins queries to generate complex reports

Expertise in API and web services to consume testing tools APIs

Experience in reviewing and accepting test scripts for compliance with coding standards

Experience in providing continuous integration (CI) development support

Ability to mentor automation developers and functional testing teams

Company

Western & Southern Financial Group

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Western & Southern Financial Group is a network and insurance group.

Founded in 1888

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.westernsouthern.com

Funding

Current Stage

Late Stage

Leadership Team

John F. Barrett

Chairman, President and CEO

Robert Walker

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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