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If you're passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide's Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide, "on your side" goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we're looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

The Sr. Analyst, Quality Engineer will support Nationwide's Excess & Specialty Surplus Business Solution Area within the Order of the Phoenix team, whose primary responsibility is the Wholesale ExpressConnect 2.0 application. ExpressConnect 2.0 is a Guidewire InsuranceNow-based platform supporting wholesale commercial insurance capabilities across submission, rating, quoting, binding, policy issuance, policy maintenance, and related integrations.

In this E-band role, the Quality Engineer will work within established team standards and guidance to validate assigned features and changes, partnering with product owners, technology analysts, software engineers, business partners, downstream teams, and other Quality Engineers.

The role will support product and rating changes, APIs, policy transactions, Policy Extension, Guidewire Cloud Platform migration activities, authentication changes, rate migration, and release stabilization. The Quality Engineer will contribute to quality throughout the delivery lifecycle, including requirements refinement, three-amigo sessions, in-sprint validation, integration testing, regression, UAT, production readiness, and post-release verification.

The OOTP team provides exposure to Guidewire InsuranceNow, commercial insurance workflows, rating and policy behavior, APIs, downstream integrations, cloud modernization, and modern testing practices. The role offers the opportunity to work with experienced engineers, analysts, product partners, and business stakeholders while learning how software moves from requirements through production in an agile environment. Candidates will contribute to a team that values collaboration, continuous learning, automation, risk-based testing, and measurable improvement. OOTP quality practices include broad regression coverage, recurring critical-suite execution, reduced regression cycle time, and the use of tools such as Glean and GitHub Copilot to support requirements analysis, test-case development, unit-test development, and defect investigation.

The Quality Engineer will participate in stand-ups, backlog refinement, three-amigo sessions, sprint planning, release planning, and defect triage; review assigned requirements, acceptance criteria, designs, API contracts, and technical changes for testability; create and maintain test scenarios, test data, automation assets, and traceability; execute in-sprint functional testing across ExpressConnect 2.0 workflows; and support integration, regression, UAT, performance, and production-validation activities.

The engineer will analyze test failures, reproduce and document defects with clear evidence, assess business impact with support from the team, and work with developers and analysts to verify fixes.

The role will support release readiness by completing assigned testing, validating deployments and environment configuration, reporting results and open risks, and performing post-release smoke and regression validation.

The Quality Engineer will also maintain and improve assigned automation, identify duplicate or low-value tests, follow team processes for test data and defect management, share findings with teammates, and build the product and insurance-domain knowledge needed to contribute effectively to the OOTP team.

Experience: Two years of related experience with software delivery or educational experience within a technology domain. Demonstrated experience in testing for agile teams including planning, test plan creation, maintenance and execution. Understanding of test automation and optimization throughout a stack and the tools to support. Guidewire InsuranceNow experience required. Tosca or Playwright Test Automation Experience, AI Experience

Job Description Summary

If you're enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!
As a Quality Engineer you will plan and conduct a wide range of software quality tests and analyzes to ensure all application products and services meet organizational standards aligned to their quality management approach, as well as, end-user requirements. All Quality Engineers perform quality planning, quality design and execution.
You will focus on a blend of skills enabling efficient execution of risk-based testing, test automation, performance testing, test data management, test environment management, continuous integration and continuous deployment all improving speed to delivery for our business partners.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Under guidance, carries out procedures to ensure all information systems products and services meet organization standards and end-user requirements.

• Analyzes and reviews requirements, user stories and technical work products.

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Uses the appropriate quality engineering tools to design and create the automation needed.

• Validates basic test results, records and researches defects.

• With guidance leverages appropriate test engineering and automation tools and techniques for each technology domain and application.

• Assists in the identification of means to deliver more effective and efficient testing, without compromising quality.

• Executes basic to moderate release testing and backs out testing when needed.

• Identifies, documents, and reports several release test results.

• Addresses defects found in release testing and works with the appropriate team members to resolve open testing issues or testing questions.

• Aligns with the Nationwide automated testing reference architecture.

• Complies with release management process governance and timelines throughout the release.

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to Technology Manager or Director.

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or a related field is preferred.

License/Certification/Designation: Technology certifications including TOSCA Automated Specialist 1 (AS1), TOSCA Automated Specialist 2 (AS2), or other related designations are preferred.

Experience: Two years of related experience with software delivery or educational experience within a technology domain. Demonstrated experience in testing for agile teams including planning, test plan creation, maintenance and execution. Understanding of test automation and optimization throughout a stack and the tools to support.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Solid analytical and communication skills, knowledge of planning. Ability to problem solve and set priorities needed. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership or technical skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager's leader and HR Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)

Working Conditions: Normal office environment. Some travel maybe required.

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties.

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage,paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.The national salary range for Sr Analyst, Quality Engineer : $76,000.00-$143,000.00The expected starting salary range for Sr Analyst, Quality Engineer : $76,000.00 - $115,000.00