Quality Automation Engineer

Job Classification:

Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy - Project Mgmt, Transformation & Strategy

Prudential’s Global Technology team is the spark that ignites the power of Prudential for our customers and employees worldwide. Our organization plays a critical and highly visible role in delivering customer-driven solutions across every area of the company. The Global Technology team is made up of diverse, agile-thinking, and highly skilled professionals. We use our combined capabilities to enable the organization with innovation, speed, agility, scalability and efficiency.

At Prudential, the role of the Quality Enablement Center (QEC) is to define and further the Quality Engineering discipline. Our goal is to engage and partner with the delivery teams on best practices, tools and standards. We want to make sure the teams are doing the right amount of testing, leveraging the correct set of tools before shipping their product to our customers. It is the mandate of the QEC to research the latest in tooling for each of the testing capabilities and work with various partners to introduce such tools to the Enterprise.

The Quality Enablement Center is seeking a ‘Quality Automation Engineer – Non-Functional Testing’ to drive the group’s vision and strategy, own the customer relationship and successfully lead the team towards the vision. The Quality Automation Engineer will research and recommend innovative ways to deliver solutions to complex challenges. The chosen candidate will be at the forefront, devising automation frameworks, while ensuring the solutions allow for integration with Prudential’s CI/CD pipelines. The Quality Automation Engineer is an executor as well as a visionary leader. This resource will become the face of QEC and will interface with key business and technology stakeholders, and therefore, exceptional verbal and written communication skills are desired. They will ensure the technical solutions are of high quality and are scalable, to meet the changing needs of the Enterprise.

The successful candidate must have deep technical domain and subject matter experience in the execution/operation of various testing practices. It is important that the resource is familiar with non-functional and functional testing and has working knowledge of key concepts, requirements and tooling. They should have an understanding of modern test automation approaches and how to successfully integrate test automation frameworks into a continuous delivery pipeline. They will look to standardize test automation frameworks and help create self-service automation capabilities. They will work collaboratively across Prudential and third-party vendors to deliver robust, technical solutions that support our customer’s success.  As the Quality Automation Engineer, the person will ensure the QEC continues to offer its Business and Technology partners with best-in-class services.

Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science or equivalent program 
• 7+ years of experience with Information Technologies 
• 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and test automation 
• Knowledge and experience with full SDLC lifecycle 
• Familiarity and experience working in an Agile environment 

Skills:

• Deep understanding of non-functional testing tooling, strategies and frameworks.
• Expertise in performance testing methodology, including requirements gathering, effort estimation, test planning, test scripting, test execution and result analysis.
• Experience with performance testing tools JMeter, LoadRunner and Performance Center.
• Strong expertise with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins.
• Experience in Git, Dynatrace & server-side monitoring.
• Experienced in analyzing performance bottlenecks and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Knowledge of the various tiers of the system (Applications, Infrastructure, and Operating Systems).
• Experience driving proof of concept and evaluation of new tools.
• Technically savvy and able to provide hands-on solutions.
• Must possess excellent written and verbal communication skills as the candidate will be interfacing with other product teams and business units.
• Experience with automation framework implementation.
• Working knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Working knowledge of cloud-based solutions, similar to AWS.
• Experience and desire to work in a global delivery environment. 
• Ability to provide thought leadership in the field of QE, Automation and DevOps.
• Experience implementing software testing and test automation in a scaled agile environment .

Good to have:

• Experience in using Docker and creating custom Docker container images.

• DB performance testing and tuning experience.

• Programming skills in Groovy and Python.

• Experience in using InfluxDB, Grafana, Telegraf for performance test monitoring.

• Regex and JSONpath expressions knowledge.

• Knowledge of tools such as PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA.

Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom.

Prudential is a multinational financial services leader with operations in the United States, Asia, Europe, and Latin America. Leveraging its heritage of life insurance and asset management expertise, Prudential is focused on helping individual and institutional customers grow and protect their wealth. The company's well-known Rock symbol is an icon of strength, stability, expertise and innovation that has stood the test of time. Prudential's businesses offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, annuities, retirement-related services, mutual funds, asset management, and real estate services.

We recognize that our strength and success are directly linked to the quality and skills of our diverse associates. We are proud to be a place where talented people who want to make a difference can grow as professionals, leaders, and as individuals. Visit www.prudential.com to learn more about our values, our history and our brand.

Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status , medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. 

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