Join an amazing team that is consistently recognized for our achievements and culture, including our most recent Forbes award of being one of America's Best Midsize Employers for 2024!

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$102,678 to $194,588 (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$93,344 to $176,898 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$84,009 to $159,208 (UT, ID, MT, NM, SD, NE, KS, OK, IA, AR, LA, MS, AL, TN, KY, IN, SC, NC, WV)

The expected base salary for this position will vary depending on a number of factors, including relevant experience, skills and location.

Position Summary:
This role of a QA Automation Manager involves leading a team of QA engineers, improving automation frameworks, coordinating testing activities and integrating automation into the SDLC.  This role also involves collaboration with cross-functional teams to optimize testing processes, reduce manual effort, and ensure that testing aligns with business and regulatory requirements.

Essential Job Functions:

• Lead, mentor, manage and grow a high performance team, forster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Provides leadership and technical guidance on specific projects and resource management for team members to meet aggressive delivery timeline.
• Reviews and obtains detailed understanding of project scope, requirements and design in order to utilize the appropriate test method to test against them. Determines testing strategy and plan.
• Develops, execute and debug automated test scripts, support the automation of individual test cases.
• Manages/develops comprehensive test plans from functional requirements and design specifications for medium to large scale projects.
• Manages activities to develop manual and/or SOA test cases in black/grey box environments that can be transitioned to automated scripts after successful manual execution of functional/regression and system tests
• Actively participates in requirements and design review meetings
• Ensures problems arising from troubleshooting efforts are isolated and documented to facilitate problem resolution
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems and services developed by delivery team.
• Researches and communicates to senior management the latest information on software test process improvements
• Monitor and report on key performance metrics, making data-driven decisions to optimize TE/SET operations
• Ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of the systems and services developed by delivery team.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high quality deliverables on time

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field

Preferred Education:

• Master’s degree in technical field

Experience:

• 10+ years of working experience in SQA fields

Preferred Experience:

• 3 or more years of experience in a management position
• 5 or more years of development experience with Java and/or Python
• 1 or more years of experience with Jenkins or CI/CD
• 3 or more years of experience creating automation frameworks 
• 2 or more years of experience in software development

Why choose a career at Mercury?

At Mercury, we have been guided by our purpose to help people reduce risk and overcome unexpected events for more than 60 years. We are one team with a common goal to help others. Everyone needs insurance and we can’t imagine a world without it.

Our team will encourage you to grow, make time to have fun, and work together to make great things happen. We embrace the strengths and values of each team member. We believe in having diverse perspectives where everyone is included, to serve customers from all walks of life.

We care about our people, and we mean it. We reward our talented professionals with a competitive salary, bonus potential, and a variety of benefits to help our team members reach their health, retirement, and professional goals.

Learn more about us here: https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers

We offer many great benefits, including:

• Competitive compensation
• Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions
• Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, paid Company holidays, and volunteer hours)
• Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance
• 401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match
• Engaging work environment
• Promotional opportunities
• Education assistance
• Professional and personal development opportunities
• Company recognition program
• Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more

Mercury Insurance is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.