2 months ago
San Diego, CA, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$83k - $140k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own test strategy and test planning, including scope, risk assessment, entry and exit criteria, and coverage targets.
- Lead quality discussions and establish quality objectives for the assigned delivery team.
- Develop, execute, and maintain functional, regression, integration, API, exploratory, and automated tests.
- Build automated UI and API test suites using tools such as Playwright and Postman/Newman.
- Validate API contracts, payloads, error handling, integrated data, ETL transformations, and end-to-end data reconciliation.
- Contribute automated tests to Jenkins and GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines.
- Document defects, perform root cause analysis using logs, stack traces, and database states, and participate in code reviews.
- Manage test data, mock services, QA environments, quality metrics, and testing process improvements.
- Coordinate assignments and triage with distributed teams and offshore or nearshore vendor partners.
- Coach, guide, train, and review junior team members without having direct reports.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- At least 3 years of experience in quality engineering or software testing, including at least 2 years in test automation.
- Hands-on proficiency in at least one of Java, Python, or JavaScript/TypeScript, including the ability to read, understand, and debug production code.
- Experience designing test strategies and owning end-to-end test planning.
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, REST Assured, or Postman/Newman.
- Understanding of API testing, RESTful service patterns, SQL, database validation, data transformations, and ETL testing.
- Experience contributing automated tests to CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with Git, branching strategies, and pull request workflows.
- Understanding of the test automation pyramid, coverage allocation, Agile/Scrum, shift-left testing, and the software development lifecycle.
- Exposure to performance testing tools such as JMeter or k6 and awareness of AI-assisted testing tools.
- Ability to work independently, solve moderately complex problems, communicate effectively, coordinate quality work, delegate tasks, and review junior team members’ output.
- Preferred experience includes insurance domain knowledge, especially claims management or insurance billing workflows.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Competitive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
- Bonus potential.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- 100% support for continued learning.
- Challenging work, team belonging, and an opportunity to make a difference.
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About ICW Group
ICW Group is a privately held, San Diego–based group of property and casualty insurers specializing in workers’ compensation, catastrophe/earthquake coverage, and reinsurance. It distributes policies through independent agents and brokers and provides claim services, risk management, fraud investigation, and workplace safety programs for commercial policyholders. Founded in 1972, the group includes carriers such as Insurance Company of the West and serves employers nationwide.