Test Engineer -ETL
- Employer
- Allstate Insurance Company
- Location
- Northbrook, Illinois
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Feb 16, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Where good people build rewarding careers.
Think that working in the insurance field cant be exciting, rewarding and challenging? Think again. Youll help us reinvent protection and retirement to improve customers lives. Well help you make an impact with our training and mentoring offerings. Here, youll have the opportunity to expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible. And youll have fun doing it. Join a company of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.
Key Responsibilities
Were looking for Test Engineers with ETL experience to work in an Agile environment supporting the Agency Pay Portfolio. The Test Engineer Senior Consultant I role is accountable for all test coordination, planning, and creation or execution of automated test scripts for a Product Team. The Test Engineer coordinates and owns the test strategy as the overall quality champion on the team, identifies acceptance criteria, defines the test conditions when stories or requirements are created, designs and implements test automation architecture and may enhance and modify the test automation framework.
Test Management Activities:
- Define and coordinate an iterative test strategy
- Understand and provide insight on the test infrastructure
- Create test data and identify environment needs
- Create an environment where a Test Driven Development behavior is fostered
- Create automated scripts that support Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipeline
- Monitor software quality via continuous and iterative testing approach
- Execute test cases within the Functional, Mobile, Performance or Web Services Automation framework
- Apply Testing Lifecycle Management principles in the context of a product
- Possess technical competency to interact with application developers to ensure software quality
- Decompose business requirements to be able to write effective acceptance criteria and automated test scripts
- Support, design, development and implementation of basic/low complexity modifications to test automation architecture and functional, mobile, performance or web services framework
Agile/scrum environment:
- Execute practical application of Agile framework components (user stories, scrum, sprints, etc.).
- Participate in Scrum, Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities prepared to take on any role within the Agile team
- Participate in Sprint planning and Program Increment planning
- Participate in backlog refinement
- Define acceptance criteria when stories are created
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities/Experience
- 1+ years of Relational Database Management (Oracle, SQL, MySQL) SQL and Data Validation are essential
- 2+ years of Test Automation Development experience with open source and market-leading vended solutions creating functional, regression, or performance tests
- Experience with ETL testing
- Ab Initio tool is preferred
- Linux/Unix Operating System and Unix Shell Scripting
- 3+ years of manual & automation testing experience of N-tier applications
- 3 years of experience with SDLC1+ years of experience with Agile Scrum
- 1+ years of software development experience (Java preferred)
- Strong Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Problem Solving skills
Leverages Agile/Scrum-enabling test execution tools
- Agile Planning tool (e.g. JIRA)
- Defect Management (e.g. HP Quality Center)
- Source Code Management Tools (e.g. Git, TFS, RTC)
- Continuous Integration tools (e.g. Jenkins, Hudson)
The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation, which includes a drug screen.
Good Work. Good Life. Good Hands.
As a Fortune 100 company and industry leader, we provide a competitive salary but thats just the beginning. Our Total Rewards package also offers benefits like tuition assistance, medical and dental insurance, as well as a robust pension and 401(k). Plus, youll have access to a wide variety of programs to help you balance your work and personal life -- including a generous paid time off policy.
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Company
- Website
- https://www.allstate.com/
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