At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
Northwestern Mutual (NM) has been helping families and businesses achieve financial security for over 161 years. Through a distinctive, whole-picture planning approach including both insurance and investments, we empower people to be financially confident. We combine the expertise of our financial professionals with a personalized digital experience and leading-edge technology to best serve our clients.
About the role:
Do you have a strong desire for quality and an appreciation and skill in manual / exploratory testing, with the capability of identifying the source of the error using various platforms and technologies? Join a team with an already-established, mature testing process as a technical, hands-on Associate Test Engineer. Test mobile applications used directly by our financial industry clients. This role will be under the guidance of a Test Engineering Manager.
Tools we use: Jira, XRay, Xcode, Android Studio, Postman, Gitlab
What You'll Be Doing:

• Contributing to the design of test plans and testing in ongoing sprints
• Actively engage with an agile team by driving user story analysis and feature grooming, designing and developing detailed test-cases and test scenarios
• Maintain the current Test Repository and work closely with automation team
• Develop and maintain regression testing plans
• Participate in full test development life cycle including requirements analysis and design
• Identify and troubleshoot bugs through manual exploratory testing
• Write quality bug reports and overview the bug life cycle
• Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging of issues when more information is needed to resolve problems
• Participate in discussions with Product and Development, acting as a vocal advocate for quality

Bring your best! What this role needs:

• Knowledge of Mobile Test Engineering experience in an agile environment
• Strong analytic and debugging skills
• Thorough understanding of QA concepts, STLC, SDLC, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment
• Experience with Git, Jira
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Got These? Even Better:

• Experience with backend testing and REST APIs
• Experience with Risk Analysis, Performance Testing

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