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Position Summary:
The Lead Software QA Engineer is an expert level position with the responsibility for leadership of a team’s QA activities and interacting directly with management and project teams to facilitate effective execution of these activities. This role develops and manages automated testing frameworks, strategies, patterns, and tools that support the testing of new or modified software programs. Responsible for resolving complex issues. Undertakes complex projects requiring additional specialized technical knowledge. Communicates common goal and direction for the team. Allocates workload to project teams and gives guidance on project completion activities. Works with business analysts to evaluate software development procedures and facilitate adherence to Internal Audit and SOX compliance. Writes, revises, and verifies quality standards and test procedures for program design and product evaluation to attain quality of software and ensure a positive customer experience. Reports progress on problem resolution to management. Performs work flow analysis and recommends quality improvements. Manages test execution effort including test case development per established test plans, problems/defects documentation in a defect tracking application, and software retesting effort to ensure problems are resolved.

State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:

$92,154 to $174,681  (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)

$83,776 to $158,801 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)

$75,399 to $142,921  (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.

Essential Job Functions:

• 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 reusable test patterns, strategies and plan.
• Develop test cases that tests application changes and impacts based on functional requirements and design documents.
• Develops and implements automated test scripts and programs which support the automation of individual test cases.
• Manages/develops comprehensive test plans from functional requirements and design specifications for medium to large scale projects.
• Provides leadership and work guidance on specific projects and resource management for team members.
• 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
• Ensures team documents test execution results in specified tracking tool
• Researches and communicates to senior QA management the latest information on software test process improvements
  
  

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree required in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field
• CTFL is required.
• Java certification preferred.

Experience:

• 6+ years of experience in test execution of software projects or equivalent combination of education/experience. Experience should include 4-5 Years experience in developing automation frameworks and test scripts.
• Work experience with defect tracking applications such as JIRA, HP Quality Center, HP ALM is required.
• Work experience troubleshooting Commercial Software is required.
• 2+ years team lead experience or team lead training.

Preferred Experience:

• 3 or more years of development experience with Java and/or Python
• 3 or more years of experience creating automation frameworks 
• 1 or more years of experience with test automation experience (UI, API, Mobile, etc.) 

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, 9 paid Company holidays, 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.