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What's the role?
As a technical, full-stack Test Engineer, your job is to work within our CX (Client Experience) application. CX is a web portal of various applications used by our clients to achieve financial security. Test Engineers at NM are heavily involved with the agile development process and work cross-functionally with product, design, and development experts to paint a clear picture of end-state and delivery expectations. As a "full-stack" Test Engineer, you are someone who demonstrates strong appreciation and skill in manual and automation testing. You will be under the mentorship of a team with an already-established, mature testing process, and should have a solid foundational knowledge of JavaScript or a similar scripting language (time and training is allotted after hiring to learn our automation framework).
Role Responsibilities:

• Define, develop, and evolve test strategies to guide test design and execution.
• Lead product release testing and help with release process.
• Lead and automate end-to-end UI, API, and performance tests.
• Coordinate with Product Managers to get appropriate requirements needed for testing.
• Coordinate with DevOps teams to set up test environments.
• Manage and maintain health of nightly regression CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop useful test coverage documentation.
• Build and maintain various test metrics/artifacts (requirements vs test cases vs defects).
• Track bugs and confer with developers or functional resources to prioritize for resolution.

Your general milestones are the following:
First Month:

• Understand CX application, business workflows, and data flow.
• Learn automation framework.
• Build new automation scripts.
• Review test results of nightly automation pipelines and report issues.

Up to three months:

• Independently automate test scripts.
• Build all required test artifacts for various Metrics Report Defects and related reports.

Bring your best! What this role needs:

• 3+ years of experience with one or more programming languages such as JavaScript, Java, or Python (JavaScript preferred).
• 2+ years of web-based application testing and automation test case creation
• Manual API Testing experience using Rest API & Postman
• Automation knowledge of Cucumber, JavaScript, NodeJS, JSON, CICD, Selenium, WebDriver.io
• Experience with Jira and Xray or similar test management suites a plus

Our Tech Stack:

• Node.js, webdriver.io, Mocha, Chai, Cucumber, GitLab, Sauce Labs, K6

Benefits:

• Whip-smart team that is very friendly and always willing to lend a hand.
• Tons of room for career growth! CX is rapidly growing, and leadership positions are there for the taking if you show the desire.
• Highly technical and hardworking fellow Test Engineers. We care a lot about what we do and are very active in local meetups and love new insights.
• Flexible work schedules.
• Employee tuition reimbursement.
• Career and leadership development programs.
• Life and disability income insurance.
• Competitive salary and outstanding Benefits- paid holidays and generous paid time off, medical benefits, retirement plans, volunteer opportunities, and more!

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