At Northwestern Mutual, we are strong, innovative and growing. We invest in our people. We care and make a positive difference.
As a technical, hands-on Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) your job is to participate in the manual & automation testing of our mobile based application. You will be under the guidance of a Principal SDET of a team with an already-established, mature testing process. Your role will be that of a "full-stack" QA Engineer - someone who has a strong appreciation and skill in software engineering with the capability of writing manual & automated and performance tests (time and training is allotted after hiring to learn our tech stack and frameworks).
Our Tech Stack: Node.js, webdriver.io, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber, GitLab, Sauce Labs, Applitools, K6
Responsibilities:

• Develop software using established development and continuous integration practices
• Conduct peer code reviews and collaborations
• Participate in setting team standards and best practices
• Creates and/or refines development strategies & plans.
• Define objectives and recommended approach within constraints of context.
• Develops application code and corresponding white box tests based on features / requirements / stories.
• Executes the appropriate amount of testing needed while delivering on cadence.
• Utilizes relevant testing technologies and frameworks.
• Creates and executes automated tests with some guidance.
• Understands and can explain frameworks and test automation strategy to others.
• Within 6 to 12 months, has a solid understanding of the key systems within their business domain and understands the data flows and interdependencies for the key systems in their domain.
• Contribute to an agile team by driving user story analysis and feature grooming, designing, and developing thorough test scripts
• Automated manual test data creation process by building custom API Routes
• Proven experience on writing complex API tests which interface with upstream services or databases
• Design and implement manual test suites by writing test plan/test cases / etc.
• Attend and contribute to sprint planning and take ownership of testing responsibility to ensure successful product releases
• Design, implement and maintain cross-platform test automation scripts
• Maintain the functional test portion of the Continuous Integration pipeline
• Develop and maintain BDD test scenarios and regression plans
• Participate in full test development life cycle including requirements analysis and design
• Work with developers to provide additional research and debugging of issues when more information is needed to resolve problems
• Apply engineering best practices in order to analyze and develop software solutions

Bring Your Best! What this role needs:

• 3+ years of QA Engineering experience
• 2+ years of professional experience as a QA Automation Engineer working in an agile environment
• 2+ years of mobile Testing Experience (iOS/Android)
• 1+ years of RESTful services automation experience
• Strong analytic and debugging skills
• Thorough understanding of QA concepts, STLC, SDLC, Continuous Integration, and Continuous
• Deployment
• Demonstrated experience in automating tests with using JS, Java, Python, or other languages
• Solid understanding of different element locator strategies and the ability to write custom XPath, CSS Path
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, REST APIs, JSON, RDBMS, XML/YAML. XCODE, ANDROID STUDIO
• Experience with Git, Jira
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Familiarity using continuous integration and deployment concepts
• At least 1 year experience with specific technical requirements/platforms (i.e., Java, JavaScript, .NET, Python)
• Experienced with public cloud and associated technologies (AWS, Azure, Containerization)
• Proven expertise in public cloud and associated technologies (AWS, Azure, Containerization)
• Understanding of your business domain
• Able to guide new team members
• Can communicate clearly to stakeholders
• Skilled at communicating the need & approach for defect management.
• Demonstrates ability to execute development and white box testing activities to meet the needs of an Agile workflow; includes agile estimation.
• Ability to write application implementations and corresponding white box tests based on features/requirements/stories.
• Understands the value of test first methodologies (e.g., Shift Left, BDD, TDD, 3 amigos).
• Understands basic Test Automation principles.
• Understands relevant tools applicable to role.
• Has experience using testing frameworks relevant to their work (e.g., Jest, Mocha, JUnit, pytest)"

Employee Benefits:

• Whip-smart team that is very friendly and always willing to lend a hand.
• Tons of room for career growth.
• Highly competitive salary
• Outstanding Benefits!

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