Job Description

At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.

What's the role?

As a technical, hands-on Test Engineer in our digital insurance application space, your job is to gain deep mastery of our business area and participate in the testing of frontend web applications, microservices, and mainframe RESTFul services. You will additionally take on the role as a quality advocate and will be responsible for driving the quality processes and standards that have been established by the Test Engineering group.

Within the Test Engineering group at Northwestern Mutual, your hard-to-find expertise in these systems and this particular brand of testing is something that is celebrated - mainframe technology is and will be the core of our business systems. Those that operate well within the space are viewed as heroes and are rewarded accordingly. You will play a key position in ensuring that these systems that keep our company are running as intended and performing optimally. In Agile development teams, this Test Engineering role is embedded in the development team, performs a variety of responsibilities, and works closely with the product owners as well as the developers.

You will be reporting to a Test Engineering Manager and sit directly with an agile team. Your role will be that of a Full Stack Test Engineer - a process-oriented person who techs well and is also a skilled exploratory tester with previous experience writing automation or has a deep understanding of how it can be implemented. We align with the context-driven approach to testing and test management - if you know what that is, and more meaningfully, if you believe you are aligned with this approach, we want to talk to you!

Your general achievements for the first year are the following:

* Within the 1st month, be able to describe in detail your system being tested and the immediate integration points within the system. You should be able to describe to your manager the core functionality of the system, data flow, and how this system fits into the bigger picture.
* Within 3 months, demonstrate effective risk based test planning that fits the scope of a sprint by producing test plans and being able to use the in-house developed test framework to automate the application being tested.
* Within 6 months, show basic understanding of JCL and PLI.
* Within 8 months, learn our automation framework to a sufficient degree so you can build basic testing scenarios.
* Within a year, build out fully fledged automation features with minimal assistance.

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

* Solid testing mentality (curious, detailed, and a knack for exploratory testing).
* Hands on experience in one of programming languages like Java, JavaScript, C++, C
* Scripting languages (JavaScript, Jscript, VBScript)
* API / Microservices Testing
* Knowledge management and defect tracking tools (Confluence, JIRA)
* Test automation tools such as Selenium, Ranorex, Test Complete
* Experience with enterprise tools, like Git, Jenkins
* Experience on Mainframes and JCL is strongly rewarded.
* Can move quickly and independently. Everyone here is kind and extremely willing to share knowledge and a helping hand, but you have to be willing to take ownership of the outlined goals and make things happen.

Benefits

* Tons of room for career growth.
* Highly technical and passionate fellow test engineers. We care a lot about what we do and are very active in local meetups and love new ideas.
* VERY competitive salary and amazing benefits.

This job is not covered by the existing Collective Bargaining Agreement.

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We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by law.