• Citizen

• Full Time

• Direct Hire

• UG :- - Not Required

• PG :- - Not Required

• No of position :- ( 1 )

• Post :- 5th Sep 2022

Flight continuously improves software quality for Allstate and is our identity for testing and release management.
We are helping build the next generation Insurance Engine for Allstate and have an opportunity for a leader at the cutting edge of testing technology
Your role will be to oversee technical ownership of Mobile testing strategy inclusive of Mobile Services / Mobile Journey Manager and Mobile App Tier. Initially looking to visualize current holistic state to determine gap analysis and own technical implementation / maturity of CICD best practices across UI and services for Native & Web.
Allstate Mobile has grown considerably over the past 24 months and different technical strategies and techniques are necessary dependant on whether the business function is Telematics (Drive wise & Milewise) , Identity Protection (Infoarmor / Digitial Footprint) or FinTech features such as Payments & Billing. This Band D role would oversee all and would be Inclusive of the newly absorbed web platforms work with relation to Milewise & Drive wise web.
The architect would report TG CEME Senior manager and work closely on strategizing how Allstate Mobile can adopt & mature further industry standard best practices around test automation, CICD, cloud based cross-platform testing as well as opportunity areas within Artificial Intelligence & Robotic Process Automation. As we move further towards Release 1 & a brand new Allstate ecosystem I feel the time is now right to onboard this role and define standards and KPIs iteratively however as quickly as possible:You will be working with your Teams and leveraging Flight to influence:

• Shift left Test Strategy
• Mature Automation practices
• Innovative engineering solutions
We’ll help you to make an impact and expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible, while having fun doing it. Join a team of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life.

Job Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership around testing, automation frameworks, best practices and solutions
• Participate in Scrum, Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities – prepared to take on any role within the Agile team
• Provide consultation on the most complex testing and automation strategies
• Assess current state of automation and testing implementations, do a gap analysis and provide strategic direction
• Provide tooling solutions for any automation limitations
• Collaborate with delivery partners to build solutions on testing, automation to achieve CI/CD

Primary Skills

Minimum qualifications
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in automation testing development
• Experience primarily across Native Mobile as well as Web platforms.
• Experience strategizing cross-browser/platform testing.
• Experience working with Webservices and building API first automation.
• Experience with cloud-based test tools such as Perfecto or Sauce Labs
• Practical experience with Agile Scrum and waterfall methodologies
• Experience constructing test plans and executing against these plans across functional, regression unit, system, performance, stress and load testing
• Proficiency with one or more of the following programming languages/frameworks: C#, Java, Python, .NET/Java frameworks
• 2+ years hands on experience with implementing Continuous Integration and build automation systems such as Jenkins, Octopus etc.
• Experience in architecting, implementing solutions/frameworks for front end and APIs
• Excellent coding skills
• Strong knowledge and understanding of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to support IT
• Experience using Web Service Testing Tools (e.g. CA LISA, SoapUI, other WS tools)
• Experience using test management tools such as HPQC or Jira
• Experience with Source Code Management Tools (e.g. Git, TFS, RTC)

Preferred qualifications
• Knowledge of Relational Database Management (Oracle, SQL, MySQL) SQL and Data Validation are essential
• Understanding of Performance Testing
• Knowledge of mobile automation tools such as Perfecto Mobile and Mobile Labs
• Knowledge of containers, virtualizations and ability to help design and implement computing grids used in testing Selenium
• Knowledge of Relational Database Management (e.g. Oracle, SQL, MySQL)
• Awareness to TDD/BDD approaches and relevant tools such as cucumber
• Knowledge of security testing
• Published and presented technical articles/papers in conferences, journals etc.

Experience

8 - 12 years