Senior Software Quality Engineer

National Interstate Insurance Company is a leading commercial transportation insurer in the nation, offering tailored risk financing solutions. They are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer who will lead QA strategies for projects, ensure product testing prior to release, and maintain regression test suites.

Responsibilities:

• Leads and executes the QA strategy for projects, ensuring alignment with organizational standards and best practices
• Analyzes features and user stories to validate acceptance criteria, testability, and impact of proposed changes
• Provides accurate estimates for QA activities including test design, automation, execution, and defect resolution
• Designs, implements, and maintains automated test scripts with a focus on the test automation pyramid and lower-level system testing
• Ensures thorough product testing prior to release, including functional, regression, and integration testing
• Conducts peer reviews of test plans, cases, and automation code
• Identifies, documents, and tracks defects through resolution, including root cause analysis
• Maintains and executes regression test suites to ensure ongoing product stability
• Recommends and implements improvements to QA processes and tools
• May have responsibility for performance and coaching of staff and may have a participatory role in decisions regarding talent selection, development, and performance management for direct reports
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Computer Science or a related field
• Generally, a minimum of 6 years of related experience in quality assurance or test engineering
• Plans and leads testing efforts for moderately complex projects, coordinating across teams
• Proficiency in test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps)
• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and modern SDLC practices
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, TestRail, Git, Docker, Postman, and SQL
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and business relationship skills
• Requires a high level of understanding of organization's business and technology operations
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to gather and analyze data to drive decision-making
• Viewed as a senior resource on the team
• Provides technical advice and support to lower-level positions
• API testing ( Postman/SoapUI)
• Test Automation
• Programming languages ( C#, Phython, etc)
• CI/CD and DevOps ( Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
• Version Control ( Git, Github, Azure Repos)
• Database testing – SQL Server, Snowflake
• AI assisted testing ( test data design and AI generated test cases)
• Playwright experience
• Strong automation skills ( test automation framework, API testing , SQL , CI/CD pipeline, Source control, Coding and Scripting) and Automation first mindset
• Completion of or continuing progress toward a professional designation preferred, such as Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE), ISTQB Certified Tester – Foundation Level (CTFL), or Certified Agile Tester (CAT)