Senior QA Automation Test Engineer

Centene Corporation is a diversified national organization dedicated to improving health outcomes through technology. The Senior QA Automation Test Engineer will design and develop automated test scripts, conduct code reviews, and enforce quality standards to ensure compliance and enhance product quality.

Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops moderately complex automated tests scripts using automation tools and scripting tools, refining the acceptance criteria into automated acceptance test cases/scripts, and executing automated test scripts and individual tests in support of IT changes to business processes
• Conducts test automation code reviews and evangelizes test automation best practices to the entire engineering organization
• Designs, develops, maintains, and executes moderately complex test automation scripts and builds reports to show results summarizing defects and recommends resolutions
• Develops and executes manual and automated tests using appropriate tools and requirements to report defects for specific product functions and verify resolutions for all defects for an assigned project
• Develops and implements standards and methods for inspection, testing, and evaluation relative to the organization's quality management system
• Enforces quality standards by identifying and recommending new procedures, standards, and resolution of outages
• Keeps updated with the latest industry developments and assure compliance of Centene’s products and processes
• Develops new procedures and standards, suggest improvements to existing standards, and participate in internal and cross functional code and design reviews
• Verifies product quality by analyzing product and technical artifacts
• Protects assets by ensuring that all work is stored appropriately in the proper repository (Quality Centers, Subversion etc.) in compliance with department standards
• Creates reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information to include accurate data for project reporting as well as a weekly personal status report
• Leverages synthetic data in partnership with TDM (Test Data Management) team for testing
• Integrates automated suite with CI/CD platform
• Mentors and provides guidance for lower level engineers
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Requirements:

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future
• A Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, computer science)
• Requires 4 – 6 years of related experience
• Knowledge of Test Automation and Quality Engineering including strong experience designing, developing, maintaining and executing moderately complex automated test scripts aligned to acceptance criteria
• Hands on Python development experience and a working knowledge of Java
• Experience integrating automated test suites with CI/CI pipelines including strong knowledge CI/CD tools such as GitLab
• Familiarity with cloud technologies including AWS
• Ability to identify basic problems and procedural irregularities, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
• Ability to work independently
• Demonstrated analytical skills
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure
• Demonstrates excellent judgment and decision making skills