IT Quality Assurance Analyst
Summary
Hands-on Test Engineer at Mercer (Marsh McLennan) designing and implementing shift-left automation test suites across functional, non-functional, API, and GenAI applications within a Scaled Agile squad.
Company:
MercerDescription:
We are looking for a Test Engineer to join our Team at MMC.
Your Experience
As a Test Engineer at Mercer, you will be responsible for the development, implementation, and support of the automation test strategy to ensure the delivery of a high quality software that meets user requirements. This is a hands-on role that requires the candidate to work collaboratively in a squad following a Scaled Agile development methodology. You must be a self-starter, delivery-focused, and possess a broad set of technology skills. Candidate needs to be able to minimize the adverse impact of bugs and should be able to do Root-cause analysis for the business processes and prevent reoccurrence of the bugs.
Things you will do:
- Ensure that business requirements for both Functional and Non Functional areas are gathered accurately, understood, and have clear understanding of the Business Acceptance criteria
- Form a Test Strategy that includes Shift left Test automation as the key principle
- Ensure 100% test coverage for all Functional and Non Functional business, may work with the Non Functional test Engineer to ensure test coverage for Non Functional business cases.
- Hands-on; Creating automated Test suites for Integration, Regression including API, Data validation both back end and front end and edge scenarios
- Testing AI/Gen AI business applications. Demonstrate usage of Gen AI in tooling & AI driven insights reporting. Creating/Reusing AI utilities/components for Testing
- Automation testing of GenAI response validation
- Identify non automated test cases to be performed manually
- Work closely with a Lead Software Engineer to define code review, Unit test and acceptance test strategy
- Follow good agile practices that are foundational to product delivery
- Troubleshoot and resolve Test scripting issues
- Log and track defects and provide regular updates to the squad on code and product quality, perform periodic defect trend analysis
- Work closely with Software Engineers and User Acceptance team to resolve bug and quality issues
What you will bring:
- Strong understanding of Test Engineering and Quality Assurance best practices, tools and policies
- Experience testing AI/Gen AI business applications. Demonstrate usage of Gen AI in tooling & AI driven insights reporting. Creating/Reusing AI utilities/components for Testing.
- The ability to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical colleagues in a cross-functional environment
- Proven track record of successfully delivering Quality software solutions
- Experience or knowledge of working with Agile at Scale, Lean and Continuous Delivery approaches such as Continuous Integration, Test-Driven Development and Infrastructure as Code
- Hands on experience on Automation tools & scripting languages (Ex: Playwright, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, WebDriverIO and Selenium etc…). Involvement in Selenium Environment Setup
- Knowledge of API testing would be a plus
- Familiar with Automation Framework Design and Implementation
- Understanding of CI/CD and DevOps practices
- Good communication skills
- Strong Self-starter and active squad contributor
- Experience of testing software across a variety of languages, technologies, and platforms.
Technical Skills Required:
- Proficient in the following Test automation languages and frameworks; Playwright, Python, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, WebDriverIO and Selenium
- Strong experience working with MSSQL, API test automation
- Good understanding of working with a source control systems such as Azure DevOps/TFS, Github or Bitbucket
- Experience working with Jira
Values and Culture
Our team comprises all sorts of people from all sorts of backgrounds. We believe everyone brings value and a unique perspective and want to promote a fun and diverse culture. To help us succeed we hope that you can demonstrate:
- A genuine passion for technology
- A clear commitment to creating brilliant products that will give our clients the edge
A willingness to work fluidly and respectfully with our talented team
Marsh (NYSE: MRSH) is a global leader in risk, reinsurance and capital, people and investments, and management consulting, advising clients in 130 countries. With annual revenue of over $27 billion and more than 95,000 colleagues, Marsh helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com, or follow us on LinkedIn and X.Marsh is committed to embracing a diverse, inclusive and flexible work environment. We aim to attract and retain the best people and embrace diversity of age, background, caste, disability, ethnic origin, family duties, gender orientation or expression, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, parental status, personal or social status, political affiliation, race, religion and beliefs, sex/gender, sexual orientation or expression, skin color, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.Marsh is committed to hybrid work, which includes the flexibility of working remotely and the collaboration, connections and professional development benefits of working together in the office. All Marsh colleagues are expected to be in their local office or working onsite with clients at least three days per week. Office-based teams will identify at least one “anchor day” per week on which their full team will be together in person.