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Overview:
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 2026! Position Summary:As a Senior Test Engineer, you will lead testing efforts on complex software projects, designing and executing comprehensive test strategies. You will mentor junior engineers, perform advanced testing (manual and automated), and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure products meet functional, performance, and security requirements. Your experience will enable you to identify risks, propose improvements in TE processes, and ensure that software quality is consistently maintained throughout the development lifecycle and maximizing testing efficiency through automation. 

Geo-Salary Information:
An in-person interview may be required during the hiring process State specific pay scales for this role are as follows:$83,670 to $161,815 (CA, NJ, NY, WA, HI, AK, MD, CT, RI, MA)$76,064 to $147,104 (NV, OR, AZ, CO, WY, TX, ND, MN, MO, IL, WI, FL, GA, MI, OH, VA, PA, DE, VT, NH, ME)$68,457 to $132,394 (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.

Responsibilities:
Essential Job Functions: <ul><li>Develop Test Plans and Strategies: With the goal of minimizing production defects, lead the creation and execution of test plans and strategies, ensuring they are comprehensive, well-documented, and aligned with project goals. Assess and estimate time, resources, and effort required for testing activities, supporting project timelines and deliverables. Incorporate an automation-first approach to testing to maximize coverage and efficiency for medium sized features.</li><li>Design and Execute Test Cases: Design and create reproducible complex cross-functional test cases for a variety of test types, ensuring that all software requirements are covered comprehensively. Take ownership of end-to-end testing for complex projects and ensure effective execution. </li><li>Perform Manual and Automated Testing: With the goal of minimizing production defects, lead both manual and automated testing efforts for multiple small features, ensuring high-quality coverage for all phases of testing. Collaborate with the team to continually improve automated testing practices and coverage.</li><li>Documentations for Process and Bug Report: Take ownership of create complex test cases test results and bug reports with detailed analysis. Provide easy to follow test cases, concise reproducible steps in bug report and keep all report and other documentation up to date for large sized features to ensure overall quality.  Communicate and enforce best practices and ensure overall quality</li><li>Cross-Functional Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure complex requirement's clarity including upstream and downstream functional areas, accountable for all features meet quality standards and ensure software meets requirements across the product.  Facilitate and guide UAT activities. </li><li>Continuous Improvement: Implement and Drive Continuous Improvement Practices. Lead small process improvements initiatives and quality assurance practices in their medium-sized functional area. Use data and metrics to identify inefficiencies and propose solutions to enhance the overall testing process and software quality.</li><li>Continuous Learning: Actively research and evaluate new testing tools, techniques, and methodologies. Recommend and help integrate innovative solutions that will improve testing effectiveness. Mentor junior engineers in the adoption of new tools.</li><li>Mentor TE Team Members on Product knowledge: Mentor and coach junior and mid-level test engineers, helping them develop their skills and improve testing practices. Encourage knowledge-sharing and foster a collaborative team environment.</li><li>Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Act as the primary problem-solver for testing roadblocks, taking proactive action to resolve issues that may impact test schedules or quality. Escalate when necessary but take ownership of leading solutions with related teams.</li><li>Test Strategy Review: Lead the review and improvement of test strategies. Ensure that testing approaches align with both project goals and technical constraints and propose adjustments where necessary to ensure complete test coverage and efficiency.</li><li>Test Case Review: Review test cases for completeness and accuracy, ensuring alignment with project requirements and use cases for smaller teams. Provide constructive feedback on test case design, coverage, and execution to improve test effectiveness.</li><li>Monitor and Analyze Testing Metrics: Continuously track, analyze, and interpret testing metrics to assess effectiveness and quality. Enhance testing processes, test coverage, and defect management based on the given direction.</li><li>Drive and Develop Test Engineering Strategies and Policies: Create and implement test strategies, policies, and standards. Contribute and follow ideas for improving testing processes, including the adoption of new tools and techniques. Ensure team adherence to established quality assurance practices.</li><li>Test Automation Effectiveness and Coverage - Collaborate with SET team to define prioritize automation, ensuring the team is leveraging automation to maximize testing efficiency. Improving automation coverage.</li></ul>   

Qualifications:
Education: Minimum:<ul><li>Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or other related fields Or equivalent combination of education and experience.</li></ul>Experience:Minimum:<ul><li>5+ yrs industry experience,  independently working on S/M projects, mentoring Jr testing engineers</li></ul>Preferred:<ul><li>5 or more years of experience with Java or Python</li><li>5 or more years of experience with automation testing </li><li>5 or more years of experience with API testing</li><li>3 or more years of experience with web testing along with familiarity with mobile testing</li></ul> Knowledge and Skills:Minimum:<ul><li>Experienced with the following:<ul><li>Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving Skills: Able to handle complex troubleshooting and problem resolution across multiple systems. Utilizes strong analytical skills to identify root causes and propose effective solutions. Takes initiative to resolve cross-functional issues.</li><li>Requirements Analysis: Ability to analyze complex product requirements and works independently to define the testing approach. Partners with stakeholders to ensure all aspects of the requirements are covered by testing, addressing ambiguities and gaps.</li><li>Automation Scripting: Ability to write and maintain automated test scripts using tools like Selenium, TestNG, or similar.</li><li>API Testing: Strong experience with API testing, including using tools like Postman or SoapUI for validating functionality and performance.</li><li>Collaboration and Communication: Ability to demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills as well as on executing task-specific collaboration, conveying precise technical details, responding to immediate issues, and ensure clarity in resolving task-level challenges. </li><li>Adaptability and Flexibility: Experienced with leading adaptation to changing requirements, code designs and implementation changes, new technologies, methods to solve problems, shift priorities, workstyle and responsibilities. </li><li>Time Management: Ability to manage large, complex testing projects with multiple dependencies. Coordinates priorities effectively across teams and ensures deadlines are consistently met, even in high-pressure environments.</li><li>Product Knowledge: Strong understanding of domain-specific knowledge and business requirements, influencing the direction of testing to ensure it aligns with strategic goals and provides tangible value to the organization. </li></ul></li><li>Proficient with the following:<ul><li>Testing Methodologies: Able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of a wide range of testing types, including complex test scenarios and automation techniques. Leads test strategy decisions and implements best practices across multiple testing methodologies.</li><li>Attention to Detail: Able to demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, consistently identifying subtle issues and potential improvements that may affect the product quality or user experience. </li><li>Defect Tracking Management and Documentation tools: Extensive experience with defect tracking tools like JIRA, Confluence, including driving the resolution process and escalating critical defects.</li></ul></li></ul> 

About the Company:
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: <a href="https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers-jobs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.mercuryinsurance.com/about/careers</a> #LI-ZK1

Perks and Benefits:
We offer many great benefits, including:<ul style="margin-top: 0in;"><li>Competitive compensation</li><li>Flexibility to work from anywhere in the United States for most positions</li><li>Paid time off (vacation time, sick time, 9 paid Company holidays, volunteer hours)</li><li>Incentive bonus programs (potential for holiday bonus, referral bonus, and performance-based bonus)</li><li>Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance</li><li>401 (k) retirement savings plan with company match</li><li>Engaging work environment</li><li>Promotional opportunities</li><li>Education assistance</li><li>Professional and personal development opportunities</li><li>Company recognition program</li><li>Health and wellbeing resources, including free mental wellbeing therapy/coaching sessions, child and eldercare resources, and more</li></ul>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.

Pay Range:
USD $83,670.00 - USD $161,815.00 /Yr.

Senior Test Engineer

5+ years testing experience; strong Java or Python; automation testing; API testing; web and mobile testing knowledge; mentoring/junior engineers; strong analytical and communication skills.

Company Description:SquareTrade/Allstate Protection Plans (“APP”) is the fastest growing company of its kind. We’re revolutionizing a $30b industry with service innovation and attention to customer satisfaction. We partner with some of the largest, most sophisticated retailers and carriers in the world (Home Depot, Walmart, Target, Amazon, Costco, and T-Mobile to name a few), consistently win industry awards, have received tens of thousands of 5-star reviews… and we’re just getting started. A member of the Allstate family, APP has headquarters in San Francisco and London.&#xa0;We are currently expanding in Europe and Asia Pacific, including Japan and Australia.<ul></ul>Job Description:The Software Managing Engineer puts the system user at the center of everything they do; ensuring that users receive the most value out of the products being developed. The Software Managing Engineer is a hands-on leadership role, committing to pair-programming and test-driven development. They own and manage running their application in production and is accountable for the success of their digital products through achieving key performance and customer indicators. The Software Managing Engineer selects, leads, counsels, motivates, sets expectations and evaluates small to medium teams. Additionally, they advise direct reports on administrative policies and procedures, risks, issues, problem resolution, and priorities. This person assists in defining, implementing and prioritizing IT policies, procedures, and best practices. The Software Managing Engineer influences team and business results. 
Responsibilities<ul><li>Leads the effort of shaping the architecture and design of the product</li><li>Collaborates on strategy across product portfolios in partnership with product managers, other peers and key stakeholders</li><li>Leads and participates in daily site, cross-site, and product team standups</li><li>Leads and participates in retrospectives, demonstrating and encouraging each participant to provide feedback with empathy</li><li>Establishes continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment pipelines and practices and advocates for a strong culture through personal behavior and coaching of all lab roles.</li><li>Leads and participates in knowledge sharing and contributes to the overall growth of the collective knowledge of the SquareTrade/Allstate engineering community</li><li>Serves as the anchor of the team and practices technical leadership; helping guide the team in choosing the right technology, solving technical problems, and resolving any technical conflicts within the team</li><li>Coaches the team and leads daily practices of using paired programming and test-driven development in writing software and building products</li><li>Acts as a player coach in leading by example in day to day execution of the build out of technical product capabilities</li><li>Leads and participates in inceptions and iteration planning meetings, infusing backlogs with technical input working in close partnership with the product manager</li></ul>Qualifications:<ul><li>Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field</li><li>8 or more years of engineering experience</li><li>2 or more years of management experience with full time software engineers</li><li>Strong proficiency in Python, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka and microservices framework</li><li>A good understanding of web technologies, such as Angular, SSO, Auth0, event tracking and monitoring tools</li><li>Experience with relational databases, such as PosgreSQL</li><li>Comfortable working in a pair-programming (XP) environment</li><li>Hands-on experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) and writing high-quality, testable code</li><li>Hands on experience coaching and mentoring software engineers</li></ul>Nice to Have<ul><li>Exposure to Generative AI technologies and use cases</li><li>Familiarity with cloud and hybrid environments, including Azure, AWS, and on-prem systems</li><li>Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices</li><li>Experience using GitHub for version control and collaboration</li><li>Experience in the warranty, insurance, fintech, or e-commerce domains</li></ul>Supervisory Responsibilities<ul><li>This job has supervisory duties</li></ul>Additional Information:At SquareTrade&#xa0;you'll&#xa0;have access to:&#xa0;&#xa0;<ul><li>Medical, dental and vision coverage with network optionality&#xa0;and the&#xa0;ability&#xa0;to contribute to a savings account (HSA or FSA)&#xa0;&#xa0;&#xa0;</li><li>Up to 4% company match into 401(k) and contributions into your company-sponsored pension&#xa0;</li><li>$75/month&#xa0;budget&#xa0;to help prioritize your&#xa0;physical wellbeing&#xa0;</li><li>$80/month&#xa0;stipend to subsidize&#xa0;connectivity&#xa0;costs&#xa0;</li><li>Mental health&#xa0;resources&#xa0;including&#xa0;free&#xa0;1:1 therapy, coaching&#xa0;sessions&#xa0;and digital resources&#xa0;</li><li>Supportive leave policies&#xa0;</li><li>Flexible&#xa0;Time Off&#xa0;Policy&#xa0;in&#xa0;addition&#xa0;to 9 Company Holidays&#xa0;</li><li>Tuition reimbursement&#xa0;up to $5,250 per year&#xa0;to&#xa0;further your personal educational advancement desires&#xa0;</li><li>Hybrid work arrangements with regular investment in gatherings/offsites&#xa0;to spend time&#xa0;together as team&#xa0;</li><li>Various corporate&#xa0;perks&#xa0;and discounts&#xa0;</li></ul>This role is a hybrid role associated with our Bay Area Office or Denver, CO office.SquareTrade estimates the possible base compensation for this role, if hired in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, to be in the range :&#xa0;$185K - 250KThe candidate(s) offered this position will be&#xa0;required&#xa0;to&#xa0;submit to&#xa0;a background investigation.&#xa0;Effective July 1, 2014, under Indiana House Enrolled Act (HEA) 1242, it is against public policy of the State of Indiana and a discriminatory practice for an employer to discriminate against a prospective employee on the basis of status as a veteran by refusing to employ an applicant on the basis that they are a veteran of the armed forces of the United States, a member of the Indiana National Guard or a member of a reserve component.&#xa0;For jobs in San Francisco, please click “<a href="https://www.sf.gov/information--fair-chance-ordinance" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>” for information&#xa0;regarding&#xa0;the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.&#xa0;For jobs in Los Angeles, please click “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/bca.lacity.org/fair-chance__;!!IIU9BLNPZ2ob!Px2f9XWyJzj2IYSNKd2yIt3iNCquNTBdKl01sufyLfNQeN2bGNbgHXw7_TJg-F4Jn0T0dUxP7CPzLzPNxYo1my6fcA$" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>” for information&#xa0;regarding&#xa0;the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.&#xa0;To view the “EEO Know Your Rights” poster click “<a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/know-your-rights-workplace-discrimination-illegal" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>”. This poster provides information concerning the laws and procedures for filing complaints of violations of the laws with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs.&#xa0;To view the FMLA poster, click “<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf__;!!IIU9BLNPZ2ob!Px2f9XWyJzj2IYSNKd2yIt3iNCquNTBdKl01sufyLfNQeN2bGNbgHXw7_TJg-F4Jn0T0dUxP7CPzLzPNxYqw_mTXJA$" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>”. This poster&#xa0;summarizing&#xa0;the major provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and&#xa0;telling&#xa0;employees how to file a complaint.&#xa0;SquareTrade is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or ability status.&#xa0;&#xa0;It is the Company’s policy to employ the best qualified individuals available for all jobs. Therefore, any discriminatory action taken on account of an employee’s ancestry, age, color, disability, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual and reproductive health decision, marital status, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, race (include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles), religion (including religious dress), sex, or sexual orientation that adversely affects an employee's terms or conditions of employment is prohibited.&#xa0;This policy applies to all aspects of the employment relationship, including, but not limited to, hiring, training, salary administration, promotion, job assignment, benefits, discipline, and separation of employment.&#xa0;Beware of Recruitment Fraud. For more information, please click “<a href="https://www.squaretrade.com/notice-recruitment-fraud/" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a>”.&#xa0;&#xa0;Allstate&#xa0;generally does&#xa0;not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.&#xa0;

Software Engineering Manager – Customer Applications

Software Engineering Manager

8+ years engineering experience, 2+ years in management; strong Python, Java, Spring Boot, Kafka; web tech experience; relational databases; experience with TDD and pair programming.

<div>GENERAL PURPOSE: </div>
<div> </div>
<div>The IT Manager – Web & Portal Applications - is responsible for providing management leadership over the internal application development using modern web-based technology such as Oracle WebCenter, ADF, WebLogic and J2EE.  The successful candidate will bring in previous experience in custom application development from both technology perspective and project management perspective.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:</div>
<ul>
<li>Leads the activities of providing new capabilities and driving value from existing capabilities.  Detailed project plans are created, covering the entire systems development life cycle, and associated project budgets.</li>
<li>Leads technical delivery projects throughout the entire systems development lifecycle, ensuring that requirements are defined accurately; applications are designed/ developed to meet the defined requirements and comply with Ross’ overall architecture. Assists in creation of project plans, coordinates team resources and manages to overall project time line. Ensures all required application support documentation is created accurately, projects are completed on time.</li>
<li>Supports existing production systems, coordinates related support and enhancement activities. Defines and prioritizes problems and requests.  Ensures proper testing and business change management practices and procedures are followed.  Ensures all support activities are executed on time and on budget.</li>
<li>Takes a leadership role in analyzing the use of Web & Portal technology to meet current and future business needs.</li>
<li>Designs, and oversees and participates in the development of Web and Portal applications. Works with senior members of the IT organization to adhere to architectural standards. Ensures the architectural integrity within the enterprise.</li>
<li>Provides technical expertise & training to developers on the use of JEE and Portal technologies. Provides working prototypes and development guidelines for other developers.</li>
<li>Works with other leads on large projects, either as a lead or a team member. Expected to perform business analysis, internal consulting, application testing, and application design & code reviews. </li></ul>
<div>COMPETENCIES:</div>
<ul>
<li>Analysis and Judgment</li>
<li>Drive for Results</li>
<li>Business Acumen</li>
<li>Interpersonal Effectiveness</li>
<li>Communication</li>
<li>Technical Competence/Expertise</li>
<li>Customer Service</li></ul>
QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIAL SKILLS REQUIRED:
 
<div>Required:</div>
<ul>
<li>At least 10+ years of experience in Web application development on JEE platforms.  Solid experience of full SDLC delivery within a complex, highly integrated environment. </li>
<li>Hands-on experience on at least 2-4 large end to end JEE (Oracle ADF) and Oracle WebCenter / WebLogic Portal implementations as Technical/ Team Lead or Senior Developer with the ability to provide senior level technical expertise to a development team. </li>
<li>Undergraduate degree or equivalent work experience in information systems, computer science, or a related technical discipline.</li>
<li>5+ years’ experience with designing and developing Web/Portal applications solutions using Oracle's ADF framework (11g) and WebCenter Suite 11g, including Portal, Content and Spaces or equivalent technologies</li>
<li>7+ years overall experience with JEE, Java, Servlets, JSP, OR mapping, JSF.</li>
<li>Some experience with Portlet development (JSR 168, JSR 286, WSRP)</li>
<li>Experience with performance profiling, debugging and tuning of JEE applications</li>
<li>Basic experience with WebLogic 11g environment administration</li>
<li>Experience with Web service integrations & Security</li>
<li>Exposure to Oracle WebCenter Content (UCM) metadata design and content workflows</li>
<li>Basic experience with versioning, build & CI systems (Subversion, Hudson, Maven etc)</li>
<li>Oracle DB (PL/SQL) development experience as well as Data modeling experience</li>
<li>Some experience with Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and implementation technologies such as BPEL/ ESB and web services.</li>
<li>Knowledge of frameworks, architecture patterns and design patterns</li>
<li>Experience with development on Linux/Unix platforms.</li>
<li>Strong overall troubleshooting and problem-solving skills</li>
<li>Considerable experience implementing iterative system development solutions in a lead position</li>
<li>Ability to work closely with application developers ensuring that business goals are achieved</li>
<li>Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills; including the ability to work with both business and technical representatives at all levels</li>
<li>Ability to function effectively in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously</li>
<li>Deep Technical skill set balanced with basic project management skills. Able to supervise internal developers, analysts, consultants, and external vendor resources. </li>
<li>Experience in risk identification, management & timely issues escalation</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to lead remote teams, across multiple time zones</li>
<li>Strong analytical and problem solving skills.</li>
<li>Ability to effectively communicate at all levels of the organization.</li></ul>
Preferred:
<ul>
<li>Experience in a large Retail environment, understanding of basic retail business processes and systems</li>
<li>Experience with customization of and integration with Oracle Retail (Retek) applications</li>
<li>Experience with the Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project</li>
<li>Graduate technical degree</li>
<li>Personal Characteristics/Motivators</li>
<li>Motivated by the desire to make a difference in the business, to work with a highly talented set of peers, and to work on interesting projects</li>
<li>Outstanding work ethic; displays a high sense of urgency to resolve issues quickly and efficiently</li>
<li>A high sense of responsibility – to our customers, our business partners, our colleagues, and to the quality and timeliness of one’s own work; a willingness to “do what it takes” to support our company’s systems – sometimes during non-standard work hours</li>
<li>Outstanding verbal and written communication skills; outstanding listening skills</li>
<li>Able to articulate issues, build consensus around recommendations, and define next steps </li>
<li>Team oriented, yet able to work independently; very self-motivated</li>
<li>A continual desire and capability to learn</li></ul>
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
<ul>
<li>Managing the recruitment, retention, and career development of internal staff</li>
<li>Managing, mentoring, and leading internal and external staff as defined in project structures</li></ul>

IT Manager I

10+ years Web app development on JEE; lead/technical senior; Oracle ADF/WebCenter; BSCS; 5+ yrs Oracle ADF/WebCenter; 7+ yrs JEE; SOA; Linux; strong leadership.

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