Lead Software QA Engineer - Digital Experience at Thrivent Financial for Lutherans in Washington, DC

Summary

We exist to help people achieve financial clarity. At Thrivent, we believe money is a tool, not a goal. Driven by a higher purpose at our core, we are committed to providing financial advice, investments, insurance, banking and generosity programs to help people make the most of all they’ve been given.

At our heart, we are a membership-owned fraternal organization, as well as a holistic financial services organization, dedicated to serving the unique needs of our clients. We focus on their goals and priorities, guiding them toward financial choices that will help them live the life they want today—and tomorrow.

The Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer leads and executes the quality assurance of mid-large scale technology solutions that deliver business value and reduce risk across the organization, continuously improving time to market.

Job Description

SQ Assurance Engineers (SQAE) are responsible for defining, implementing and continuously improving policies, processes and procedures that deliver products and services of the highest level of quality and reliability for the business and customers. The SQAE will be part of the Digital Experience team within the Customer Enterprise Technology Organization focused on the enterprise CMS, mobile app and Experience and Innovation. The Lead SQAE will provide input as to the growing future needs and structure of the QA skillset within the Digital Experience team. The SQAE also creates, executes and documents the tests necessary to ensure that application and technical environment meets performance requirements (technical and functional) and free from defects. The Lead SQAE ensures that quality standards are met and adhered to by using their knowledge and quality assurance methods, tools and techniques. The Lead SQAE will resolve, document, and report to management quality problems that arise.

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Direct and mentor other in technical writing
• Define and develop automated testing scripts for complex environments.
• Lead and understand how complex technical requirements lead to test cases and be able to write a positive and negative technical test case.
• Lead and understand how complex business requirements lead to test cases and be able to write a positive and negative test case. Ability to write test cases under the direction of others
• Design, implement and review Test plans and Test Cases.
• Review and understand documentation related to projects assigned and provide test estimates. Gather and publish all estimates in a concise and trackable format
• Lead, plan, coordinate and/or participates all aspects of testing, including automation, Smoke / Sanity Test, Functional Test, Integration Test and Regression Test and post implementation test as appropriate for continuous delivery.
• Lead and manage defect life cycle in appropriate defect tracking tools and proactively identify risks to management
• Provides, evaluates and manages the test status
• Plans, defines and prepares test data to support deliverables
• Educate project teams on testing methodologies and needed

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, business, mathematics or related field
• 5+ years of applicable experience
• Strong organizational, analytical and critical thinking skills
• Technical writing
• Highly experienced with Test automation and frame work
• Strong debugging and troubleshooting skills
• Demonstrated leadership on mid-large-scale projects impacting strategic priorities
• Experience with Test Driven Development (TDD) framework
• In-depth knowledge of systems design, architecting and implementing large business systems
• Ability to train others (less experienced) on both methodologies and technologies

Preferred Experience:

• Testing certifications

Thrivent provides Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, national origin, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. This policy applies to all employees and job applicants.