Quality Assurance Engineer

Great American’s Executive Liability Division is committed to serving its customers with industry-leading expertise and quality management liability products. Our experienced team of underwriters, claims attorneys and marketing professionals work hand-in-hand to deliver effective solutions for public, private and nonprofit clients.

The Executive Liability Division is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join their team. This individual will work out of the Schaumburg, IL office.

Job Description:

Participates in ensuring IT quality assurance strategy, processes, and deliverables are achieved for projects, adhering to quality assurance best practices.

• Execute comprehensive automated and manual functional testing based on analysis and understanding of the requirement and deployment environment. Verifies those test results through analysis of user interfaces, database, printed output and data transmissions.
• Participate in daily standup, sprint planning.
• Provides estimates for QA work to include test scenario design/review, test case design and automation, test execution, and defect remediation.
• Participates in writing and maintaining test automation, adhering to best practices and coding standards. Focuses on automation test pyramid and automating at lower levels of the system.
• Help establish automation best practices and drives adoption.
• Identifies defects and tracks to closure including root cause and resolution.
• Participates in conducting peer reviews of test artifacts.
• Performs and maintains regression testing.
• Devises improvements to current procedures and develops models of possible future configurations.
• Maintains and develops business knowledge and customer relationships.

Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in related field.
• 3-5 Years of Experience in Quality Assurance tester or similar role.
• Experience with API and Angular UI testing.
• Experience producing defect report.
• Experience with test automation framework.
• Strong time management and organizational skills and attention to detail required.
• Knowledge of technology testing methods and procedures.
• Knowledge in Quality Assurance software and tools.
• Knowledge of SQL queries , basic programming and scripting preferred.
• Insurance background and knowledge of rating and policy coverage and endorsements big plus