The Workers' Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California (WCIRB) is California's trusted, objective provider of actuarially-based information and research, advisory pure premium rates, and educational services integral to a healthy workers' compensation system. The WCIRB is a California unincorporated, private, nonprofit association comprised of all companies licensed to transact workers' compensation insurance in California, and has over 400 member companies. No state money is used to fund its operations. The operations of the WCIRB are funded primarily by membership fees and assessments.

To accurately measure the cost of providing workers' compensation benefits, the WCIRB performs a number of functions, including collection of premium and loss data on every workers' compensation insurance policy, examination of policy documents, inspections of insured businesses, and test audits of insurer payroll audits and claims classification.

The WCIRB employs approximately 175 people. The home office is located in Oakland, California.

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The Role

WCIRB is looking for a QA Engineer for functional and automation testing who is passionate about quality and automation. You will be creating, maintaining, and improving automation frameworks/infrastructure. You will be involved in every step of software development process like designing, development and testing. You will be responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting test results. The ideal candidate will be highly technical, detail-oriented, creative, motivated, and can work without too much supervision.

What You’ll Do

• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documentation to define the test strategy and estimate QA effort.
• Build, maintain, and improve the existing automation framework and processes.
• Create and improve testing-related documentation, including test plans, test cases/scripts, defect reports, and knowledge base articles.
• Achieve extensive code coverage through unit testing.
• Can build, deploy, run & manage the Testing related application individually.
• Influence the development team, program management, architect & design teams on technical implementation, Testability and user scenarios.
• Responsible for monitoring, analyzing, and reporting test results and Incident Management.
• Work closely with the QA group to automate features for better regression coverage, automate production issues, execute scripts, and triage automation runs.
• Effectively collaborate with Business users, Development Teams, Functional QAs, and others to understand requirements and scope of work.
• Develop deep expertise in the WCIRB systems.

Requirements

• 8-10 years of experience in the software industry, with a passion for quality processes.
• Proficient in QA process & methodologies, tools, and different testing approaches (black box and automated testing) with short release cycles.
• 8-10 years of experience in the architectural design, development, and maintenance of test automation frameworks is required.
• Must have hands-on experience in C#.net and Visual Studio.
• Experience with one or more Unit Test Frameworks like Nunit, Xunit or MSTests.
• Experience with one or more automation tools like Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Experience in testing and automating APIs and Knowledge of tools like SoapUI, Postman, Fiddler etc.
• Experience in the software development lifecycle, test methodologies, and tools.
• Strong problem-solving, critical thinking, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/ Engineering or a similar field.

Nice to Have

• Experience in CI/CD pipelines and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with Microservice architecture.
• Shell scripting.
• Knowledge and experience in SQL Database testing.

Perks & Benefits

Our employees enjoy a state of the art, energy-efficient, open work environment that nurtures collaboration and creativity. At the WCIRB, we go the extra mile to keep our employees happy and healthy. Our perks include:

• Hybrid work environment (40% onsite, 60% remote)
• Allocations for continuous learning & development
• Allowance for wellness & fitness programs
• Medical, dental and vision benefits
• 401K and pension plan
• Annual incentive plan
• Social activities
• Employee discounts on activities and events
• Community volunteer involvement

Please note that the WCIRB has enacted a mandatory COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all employees. Proof of full vaccination or an approved exemption or deferral is required of all employees, including new hires.

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