Senior Test Automation Engineer

Company: Delta Dental of California
Location: Alpharetta
Posted on: January 16, 2020

Job Description:

AT DELTA DENTAL WE:
PROMOTE ACCOUNTABILITY, INTEGRITY AND COLLABORATION: Our employees are collaborative, self-aware, and ethical. It is our expectation to do the right thing and follow through on commitments.
FOSTER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: Our employees take ownership of developing themselves and others through coaching, mentoring and providing/being open to constructive feedback and identifying learning opportunities.
VALUE CUSTOMERS AND CULTIVATE POSITIVE EXPERIENCES: Our employees take time to build rapport with customers, while anticipating and exceeding their needs to ensure positive outcomes.

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ABOUT DELTA DENTAL
Delta Dental covers more Americans than any other dental benefits provider. As an employee you ll take part in our mission to become the trusted health partner by collaborating with our communities and employees to reimagine and deliver new possibilities in an ever-changing environment. Our Enterprise Strategy focuses on pillars of Growth and Diversification, supported by the platforms of Culture and People, Process and Technology. Our employees take pride working for a purpose-driven organization and live our values of Trust, Service, Excellence and Innovation.

We are part of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 74 million people in the U.S. Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania and Delta Dental Insurance Company, together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering 33 million enrollees. All of our companies are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country.

Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
At Delta Dental, our strategy is only as strong as the people who execute it! We are hiring individuals that are not just right for today but also for our future. We have built a foundation of high-trust by treating all people with dignity, making and keeping commitments, and consistently striving to do the right thing. Our leaders optimistically share future possibilities to inspire and motivate others toward their full potential. We expect our employees to find ways to embrace positive change, be curious and challenge the status quo, and provide solutions to unmet problems. Joining Delta Dental means joining a culture focused on fostering development, building genuine connections, recognizing each other s strengths and sharing in successes.

The incumbent in this position will be responsible for starting off with manual testing and eventually progressing to building test automation frameworks & writing automation scripts from inception and testing client-side APIs, rich user interfaces and thick-client applications. They have an opportunity to play a key role in developing test automation strategy and mentoring junior automation engineers using industry best practices and working collaboratively with cross-functional team of product managers, UX designers, architects, principal engineers, software engineers and devops. The position will help improve test coverage and project turnaround times.

How you will make an impact:

* Understands the full application functionality, develops test cases and performs manual testing as well as automation testing.

* Architects, designs and implements test automation frameworks from the ground up into a continuous integration and execution model.

* Establishes a set of smoke and regression tests for multiple applications that can run in a CI/CD environment, potentially across various devices.

* Sets up an integration testing framework with mock endpoints so that apps can be quickly validated.

* Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.

* Collaborates with our Engineering teams on best practices, process changes and standards as part of continuous process improvement.

* Coordinates with the scrum team and development counterparts in overseeing bug tracking, test prioritization, test automation and release.

What we look for:

* Experience with end to end manual testing for enterprise grade applications.

* Strong understanding of web-development technologies, including SQL, HTML, CSS, JS, Spring, Hibernate, XML, HTTP protocol; debugging tools like Postman, firebug, charles, IE Developer tools and code profiling tools like jProfiler.

* Experience testing Pega applications or microservice based applications highly desired.

* Experience with shell scripting, Unix-like environments and Windows.

* Experience developing non-browser based test automation, especially Windows based applications.

* Experience developing and maintaining test automation frameworks and infrastructure.

* Extensive knowledge and prior experience with Scrum, Agile Methodology.

* Strong problem solving and communication skills.

Benefits and perks:

* 12 days starting vacation plus 11 holidays and your birthday off!

* Multiple medical insurance options: 100% paid or low cost premiums

* 100% paid dental insurance

* 100% paid vision insurance

* Onsite gym and/or gym discount and fitness incentive

* Culture of learning: substantial tuition reimbursement to improve your skills

* Career growth: we love promoting from within

* Strong commitment to work/life balance

* Technology allowance

* Social responsibility and volunteer opportunities

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