Guardian Life

Senior QA Engineer

New York Full time

Senior QA Engineer

As a Senior QA Engineer, your role will be to promote product ownership and quality through well-defined measurable processes, comprehensive quality assessment and identification of risk.  You will be embedded within our Application and Platform Engineering teams, working closely with Product and Design to understand features, bugs, customer usage, and technical implementation to deliver high quality products for our customers.  You will play an integral part in helping us shift testing left in our SDLC and finding the right tools for it.

What You’ll Do:

  • Drive the creation and execution of test strategy, test plans, test cases as well as utilize automated tools to optimize the SDLC/STLC
  • Perform exploratory testing, automate repetitive tasks and work side-by-side with software development engineers
  • Review user interfaces for conformity and functionality
  • Efficiently execute test cases across all functional and UI areas of our products
  • Find, isolate, document, regress, and track bugs through resolution
  • Measure, interpret and report testing results, and be a vocal proponent for quality in every phase of the development process

What You’ll Bring to the Table:

  • 4+ years of experience working as a Quality Assurance Engineer
  • Hands-on experience creating, executing and maintaining test automation (Javascript preferred)
  • Experience in testing and test automation solutions spanning front-end UI to APIs
  • Understanding of continuous integration and associated tools and processes
  • Ability to communicate cross-functionally and across levels in formal and informal settings, clearly articulating technical concepts with the ability to thoughtfully defend one’s stance against disagreement or skepticism
  • Must be able to thrive in an ambiguous environment - where change is the only constant
  • Must be an effective multi-tasker comfortable working on multiple products and projects
  • Team-oriented mindset, celebrating and taking joy in the success of others on the team
  • Experience in a startup or venture-like operating model preferred

Salary Range:

$118,980.00 - $195,465.00

The salary range reflected above is a good faith estimate of base pay for the primary location of the position. The salary for this position ultimately will be determined based on the education, experience, knowledge, and abilities of the successful candidate. In addition to salary, this role may also be eligible for annual, sales, or other incentive compensation.

Our Promise

At Guardian, you’ll have the support and flexibility to achieve your professional and personal goals.  Through skill-building, leadership development and philanthropic opportunities, we provide opportunities to build communities and grow your career, surrounded by diverse colleagues with high ethical standards.

Inspire Well-Being

As part of Guardian’s Purpose – to inspire well-being – we are committed to offering contemporary, supportive, flexible, and inclusive benefits and resources to our colleagues. Explore our company benefits at www.guardianlife.com/careers/corporate/benefits. Benefits apply to full-time eligible employees. Interns are not eligible for most Company benefits.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Guardian is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.

Accommodations

Guardian is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Guardian also provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants (and employees) to accommodate the individual's known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless doing so would create an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact MyHR@glic.com. Please note: this resource is for accommodation requests only. For all other inquires related to your application and careers at Guardian, refer to the Guardian Careers site.

Visa Sponsorship

Guardian is not currently or in the foreseeable future sponsoring employment visas. In order to be a successful applicant. you must be legally authorized to work in the United States, without the need for employer sponsorship.

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