Senior Automation Engineer

Who are we

Western National Insurance Group is a private mutual insurance company with over 120 years of experience serving customers propertyandcasualty insurance needs in the Midwestern Northwestern and Southwestern United States. Known as The Relationship Company we define success as a measure of the relationships weve built over time. In everything that we do we know that delivering a friendly and helpful interaction makes for a better experience for everyone involved. Thats the power of nice. At Western National nice is something we work to bring to every person and organization with whom we partner and serve.

Does this opportunity interest you

Western National is seeking a Senior Automation Engineer to join our team!

The individual in this role will have the opportunity to design implement test and validate deployments of software application modifications.

What are the responsibilities and opportunities of this role

• Collaborates with product team to test and deploy application modifications based on collaboratively defined requirements.
• Participates in work refinement and estimation processes with product team.
• Prepares and executes testing on all new and modified code per team product and organization standards.
• Works with product and change control teams to ensure quality deliverables that provide customer value.
• Creates and maintains documentation that the product team or company has defined as important (support processes team processes system documentation decisions / discussions etc..
• Ensures timely delivery of projects and tasks and communicates delays and roadblocks with the team and leadership as needed.
• Flexes to noncore responsibilities as needed to ensure timely work delivery to the customer (analysis testing deployment meeting facilitation etc..
• Designs test automation into continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI / CD) pipelines with DevOps teams and ensures automation throughout all phases of life cycle.
• Influences inclusion of testability during design and development phases.
• Solicits and performs code review per team product and organization standards.
• Identifies opportunities for process improvement and collaborates with team and team leadership to influence process improvement at product team level.
• Identifies defectprone areas in product and platform architecture and designs and provides test coverage.
• Actively participates in test defect resolution process providing defect descriptions root cause scope risks and impact of a problem.
• Facilitates test defect resolution process (meetings metrics etc..
• Leads in troubleshooting resolution and communication of urgent production issues within product team.
• Finds opportunities for automation of processes and tasks at product team level.
• Participates in evolution of team level development best practices standards and policies with consideration for implications in work activities.
• Identifies opportunities to improve application and business process efficiency and effectiveness with an emphasis on quality and positive user experience.
• Understands and effectively communicates the relationship between problem components.
• Utilizes high level of knowledge experience and creative resources to find a wide range of solutions.
• Contributes to resolve problems and / or process improvements at the product team level.
• Consistently acts according to our customer experience standards including responding quickly maintaining a positive attitude building rapport demonstrating empathy managing the customers expectations using the proper communication channel for the situation and taking ownership to ensure the customers issue is resolved.
• Provides support to primary customers including but are not limited to direct teammates in all roles product team leadership and colleagues on other teams managers and vendors.
• Performs special projects and other duties as assigned.

What are the musthave qualifications for a candidate

• Coding experience with JavaScript.
• Experience with Cypress or Selenium.
• Experience with the version control tool Git and Git branching models.
• Experience on either Gitlab Bitbucket or GitHub.
• Experience with CI / CD platforms like Jenkins or Gitlab.
• Experience with Jira or similar issue tracking software is preferred.
• Xray or similar testing tool software experience is preferred.
• Insurance knowledge is preferred.
• Relevant education and / or training (e.g. bachelors degree associate degree bootcamp certificate); experience in lieu of education acceptable.

What will our ideal candidate have

• Demonstrated advanced organizational and prioritization skills with ability to accomplish multiple priorities (including low and high) within a specified timeframe.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with all product team members and with other teams.
• Demonstrated intermediate knowledge and application of relevant Agile testing methodologies at product team level.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently communicate clearly and effectively both verbally and in writing with technical and nontechnical audiences across all levels of the organization.
• Proactive mentorship that results in increased effectiveness in one or more areas of knowledge or skill for colleagues who have one or more learning approaches.
• Propertyandcasualty insurance industry experience / education.

Compensation overview

The targeted hiring range for this role is $102600 $123400 annually. However the base pay offered may vary depending on the jobrelated knowledge skills credentials and experience of each candidate as well as other factors such as the scope and location of the role. Candidates looking for compensation outside of the posted range are encouraged to apply and will be considered based on their individual qualifications and / or may be considered for other positions.

Western National Insurance Group reserves the right to fill this position at a level above or below the level included in this posting.

Culture and Total Rewards

Western National has long been known as The Relationship Company and caring for our employees is part of that relationship commitment. We value connectiveness empowerment and accountability and we believe that our employees are our biggest asset.

Currently ranked as the 41st largest private company by revenue in Minnesota (Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal) Western National has earned accolades yearoveryear as an employer of choice and garnered multiple awards for wellness in the workplace. Western National has also been named a Top Workplace by the Star Tribune for the past four consecutive years. In addition the Group is consistently recognized as a Wards 50 propertyandcasualty insurance company for its outstanding financial results.

Western National offers fulltime employees a significant Total Rewards Package including:

• Medical insurance plan options and other standard employee benefits including dental insurance vision benefits life insurance disability insurance and more!
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• 401(k) Plan (participants are eligible for 100 matching on the first 6 of their contributions)
• Wellbeing Program including onsite fitness studio
• Paid Time Off including holiday vacation and volunteer
• 100 companypaid tuition reimbursement for approved jobrelevant coursework and access to The Institutes (Risk and insurance education)
• Paid parental leave
• Bonus opportunities

Western National believes in supporting balance between work and life by providing a flexible work environment which includes a variety of hybrid and remote work arrangements designed to balance individual job department and company needs.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Western National provides employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

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