Senior Quality Engineer -Test Governance & Standards

Job Family IT - Development About Us At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests. Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment - one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

Who We Are We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life. Today, we're part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what's important to them.

We're empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good - for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

What We Do Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate, which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs. Transamerica employs nearly 7,000 people. It's part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.
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Job Description Summary As a member of the Quality Engineering Center of Excellence, you will review and approve Test Plans and Exit Reports, provide support for testing teams through group training and individual support on testing, using QuMo, and following the company's testing standards, and advise a team of local or outsourced software testers to test and support business application solutions.

Job Description

What You Will Do:

* Review and approve test plans and exit reports for solutions to business challenges utilizing web and cloud technologies
* Train test teams on the Quality Engineering Testing Processes
* Verify that the Quality Engineering processes are being followed
* Work collaboratively with other development staff, including contract and offshore Software Engineers, and business product owners in an agile environment.
* Serve as a subject matter expert for a wide range of areas, applications, and technologies and mentor other team members in testing standards.
* Recommend solutions which take into consideration costs, business needs, and system impacts.
* Learn and keep pace with the latest advances in the field and rapidly grasp new technologies to support the environment and contribute to project deliverables.
* Assist with preparing presentations and may lead development meetings.

What You Will Need:

Qualifications
* Experience testing Enterprise Applications
* Experience using Enterprise Testing Tools - Test Management (qTest), Requirements Management (Jira), Defect Management (Jira),
* Analytical and problem-solving skills
* Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, math, engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent education/experience
* Three years of Core Java or .NET test experience
* Strong knowledge of testing in coding platforms/frameworks (e.g. .NET/C#, JAVA, OOD, OOP, Functional Programming, Spring Framework, J2EE Development, OOP, Service Oriented Architecture, Dependency Injection, and Core Architecture)
* Understanding of cloud services (e.g. AWS/Azure) utilizing various supporting tools (e.g. EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, VMs, Blob, Cosmos, Data Factory, SQL Data Warehouse, ARM Templates, Event Hubs)
* Knowledge of testing distributed computing (MS HPC, Sagemaker, Spark)
* Two years of testing experience with integration and service frameworks (e.g. API Gateways, Apache Camel, Swagger API, Zookeeper, Kafka, messaging tools, microservices)
* Knowledge of testing Microservices and REST based API development (e.g. Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Entity Framework, IIS, Swagger, Odata, .NET API 2, .NET API Core, Auto Mapper)
* Familiarity with testing modern frontend…