Nationwide Insurance

Specialist, Software Engineer - Test Automation Developer (Ruby & Playwright)

Nationwide Insurance$95K — $143K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in software testing and quality assurance
  • Strong knowledge of automated testing frameworks, especially Playwright
  • Proficiency in Ruby and SQL for test script development
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms like AWS and Kubernetes
  • Understanding of Agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices
  • Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business and technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

  • Validate end-to-end customer journeys to ensure quality and stability
  • Create and maintain comprehensive test plans and test data
  • Perform risk analysis to shape testing strategies
  • Collaborate daily with various teams to clarify requirements and support decisions
  • Design and build automated tests for digital servicing applications
  • Contribute to the validation of major product launches and journey improvements
  • Maintain and enhance existing services through rigorous testing and defect management

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Paid time off starting at 18 days per year
  • 401(k) plan with company match and pension plan
  • Business casual work environment
  • Diverse paid time off options, including Unity Day and Lifetime paid leave
Full Job Description
About the Team

The SEEJET (Servicing, Experience Engineering Journeys & Technology) team within Nationwide Financials' Digital Servicing organization focuses on delivering end-to-end, high-impact customer and financial professional journeys. SEEJET engineers work on servicing Journey such as Manage My Book of Business, Manage My Investments, Manage My Accounts and Journey Foundation work.

You will be embedded in a true cross-functional product team, partnering closely with business leaders, CX/UX teams, Product Architects, and fellow engineers to deliver modern, scalable solutions with strong visibility and support from senior leadership.

Role Overview

SEEJET Team at Nationwide Financial is seeking a TAD professional to support the development, testing, and ongoing quality assurance of customer-facing and internal applications serving members, financial professionals, and internal associates across NationwideFinancial.com and Nationwide.com.

In this role, you will focus on Ruby conversion to Playwright and Playwright script development to enable robust automated testing across strategic servicing journeys. You will be responsible for developing and executing end-to-end and functional test scripts, validating application behavior, identifying defects, and providing testing support throughout the delivery lifecycle.

As part of the SEEJET team, you will contribute to ensuring application quality, stability, and reliability while supporting modern engineering initiatives and major journey improvements.

Key Responsibilities
  • Validate end-to-end customer and financial professional servicing journeys across Digital Servicing applications, with focus on quality, stability, and business outcome confidence.
  • Coordinate with upstream partners and various data sources to create and maintain test data.
  • Create test plans to be reviewed by and monitored by the business.
  • Perform risk analysis on application changes to determine a risk based test approach.
  • Partner daily with developers, product, UX, architecture, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify risks early, and support fast, informed delivery decisions.
  • Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test coverage and supporting test assets for modernized and legacy Digital Servicing solutions.
  • Contribute to major product launches and servicing journey modernization efforts by ensuring high-quality validation, regression readiness, and release confidence.
  • Support and improve existing services through functional testing, regression testing, defect management, and validation of production-ready behavior.
  • Help maintain a trusted, healthy automation suite and improve test data, test evidence, and validation practices across the team.
  • Use modern engineering and quality practices, including pairing, test strategy collaboration, defect triage, and continuous improvement of delivery standards.
  • Leverage Generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve test productivity, automation quality, and engineering efficiency.


Preferred Technical Experience
  • Playwright
  • API Validation
  • SQL
  • Ruby
  • Familiar with Cloud platforms (AWS and Kubernetes experience preferred)
  • Familiar with Angular


Nice-To-Have Experience
  • GraphQL
  • Kafka or other event-driven architectures


Agile & DevOps Practices
  • Experience working within Agile teams
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, Harness, GitHub Actions)
  • Strong interest in automation and improving software delivery processes


This Position Is Ideal for a Well-Rounded Full-Stack Engineer Who:
  • Wants ownership of meaningful, customer-facing journeys
  • Enjoys working across the stack and across disciplines
  • Values modern engineering practices and continuous improvement
  • Is excited to contribute to high-visibility, strategic initiatives while continuing to grow in a supportive, collaborative environment


This will be a hybrid role based out of the Columbus, OH. The team comes in Mondays and Tuesdays for collaboration.

This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

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Job Description Summary
If you're enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you'll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:
  • Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards in an agile environment.
  • Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.
  • Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques.
  • Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation.
  • Manages medium to large project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively.


May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Completion of undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree.

Experience: Four or more years of analysis and technology experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle complex business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00-$177,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00 - $143,500.00

About Nationwide Insurance

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company & Affiliated Companies is a group of large U.S. insurance and financial services companies based in Columbus, Ohio. Nationwide has grown from a small mutual auto insurer owned by policyholders to one of the largest insurance and financial services companies in the world, with more than $158 billion in statutory assets.

Nationwide Insurance Careers

Join the Nationwide Insurance team today and be part of a company that values innovation, leadership, and diversity. As one of the leading insurance and financial services providers, Nationwide offers unparalleled job opportunities that foster professional growth and development. Work You’ll Do At Nationwide Insurance, you’ll contribute to projects that impact lives and help communities thrive. You’ll work alongside a team of experts dedicated to upholding the highest standards in insurance and financial services. Our culture is built on a foundation of respect and integrity, driving us to achieve excellence in everything we do. Nationwide Insurance is not just about insurance; it’s about fostering an environment of continuous growth and innovation. With a variety of career paths available, from customer service to claims management, each position offers the chance to make a significant impact. Join Our Market-Leading Team Nationwide Insurance is home to some of the most dedicated professionals in the industry. Our team benefits from leadership that is committed to personal and professional development, ensuring that every employee has the opportunity for career advancement and skill enhancement. Innovate with Us Embrace the opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects that set industry standards. Nationwide’s commitment to innovation means constantly seeking out new ways to improve our services and processes, benefiting both our customers and our team members. Internship and Employment Opportunities Start your career with Nationwide Insurance through our internship programs or dive straight into a fulfilling career with vast employment opportunities. We are looking for passionate, curious, and driven individuals ready to make a difference in the insurance industry. Diversity and Inclusion At Nationwide, diversity and inclusion are more than just words—they are principles guiding how we build our teams, cultivate leaders, and create a company that’s the right fit for every person inside of it. We offer diversity training and resources that promote an inclusive workplace. Benefits and Culture Nationwide Insurance is committed to supporting our team members’ well-being both inside and outside of work. Our benefits package includes comprehensive health care, retirement plans, and generous paid time off. More than just benefits, our company culture encourages networking, mentorship, and community involvement. Career Development Invest in your future with Nationwide Insurance’s career development programs. From resume and interview workshops to advanced leadership training, we provide the tools to help you succeed and advance within the company. Stay Connected Join Our Team Explore the various positions available at Nationwide Insurance that match your skills and interests. We are continuously hiring and looking for new talent to join our professional network. Keep Up to Date Stay informed with career tips, insider perspectives, and industry-leading insights—all from the people who work at Nationwide Insurance. Job Alert Emails Customize your subscription to receive job alerts and the latest news tailored to your preferences. Discover the exciting and rewarding career opportunities that await at Nationwide Insurance. Join Nationwide Insurance today and be part of a team that is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of our customers and communities.
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