At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from lifes uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. The Test Engineer Lead Consultant is a technical leader in the organization. The Test Engineer Lead Consultant provides oversight and guidance across quality control automation throughout the organization and focuses on the creation/execution of automated test scripts on medium to high complexity projects. Also, the Lead Consultant provides direction and leadership on test strategy, script execution, test automation framework and test environment design, designs and implements test automation architecture and designs, modifies and enhances the test automation framework. .
ASC (Affordable Simple Connected) Quality Team continuously improves software quality for Allstate and is our identity for testing and release management.

Well help you to make an impact and expand and apply your skills in ways you never thought possible, while having fun doing it. Join a team of individuals with hopes, plans and passions, all using and developing our talents for good, at work and in life. We are helping build the next generation Insurance Engine for Allstate and have an opportunity for several Test Engineers at the cutting edge of testing technology.

Your role through a combination of technical knowledge and owning testing will be to ensure quality is built into a new product from the start so that it is seamless, on demand, automated and invisible.

The ideal person / persons will be a good collaborator, having excellent problem solving skills and leading projects, along with having working knowledge of Performance Testing in complex and large environments, be passionate about delivering quality products, focus on performance engineering and had exposure to Services Testing.

Job Responsibilities

• Define and Implement performance test strategy that enables and supports a continuous integration/ development pipeline, work across multiple teams to ensure that strategy is implemented and followed
• Provide technical and strategic leadership on performance engineering and maintain high complexity modifications to performance testing architecture and framework
• Work cross-functionally with Product owners, operations team to define workloads and performance requirements. Participate in roadmap discussions and identify key areas for improvement
• Adept in workload modelling aligning to the architecture and product needs. Articulate Non-functional requirements, and model work load based on expected production loads
• Performance Testing, troubleshooting and triaging issues for AllStates new generation applications (Web, API and Mobile apps) in testing and production environment
• Collaborate with delivery partners and developers to build solutions on testing and automation to achieve CI/CD
• Consult and provide direction on test environment issues (highly integrated environment) and act as SME for external environment team communications
• Quality advocate across the enterprise mentoring and leading junior team members to influence quality across all areas including development, business, product management etc.
• Decision maker and problem solver across all teams influencing strategies and technologies for best practice
• Assess areas across the enterprise and lead teams to anticipate and prevent potential issues (Performance and non-performance) and articulate dependencies to the stakeholders
• Participate in Scrum Daily Stand-up, Sprint and iterative development activities prepared to take on any role within an Agile team and participate in Sprint planning, release planning and backlog refinement, retrospectives

Primary Skills

• Collaboration skills across multiple teams, and effective communication
• Provide technical leadership and guide junior team members on multiple projects and assist in troubleshooting
• Experience using Performance Test Tools (Performance Center, LoadRunner, JMeter etc..)
• Sound understanding of Performance Testing concepts and hands on Scripting, Testing and debugging using various tools (Fiddler, Network Analyzer etc..)
• Performance Testing of web and API's and tuning, troubleshooting and identifying performance bottle necks
• JVM analysis Understanding (Heap dump analysis, thread dump analysis and tuning activities) and identifying bottlenecks within the code
• Strong in design of test framework, load simulation model, load stats calculations
• APM tools such as DataDog / Dynatrace or others
• Good understanding of Java, Web technology including HTTP headers, HTTP Verbs (post, put, patch get, etc), memory leak analysis, networking and system metrics
• Understanding of cloud technologies such as AWS, Azure a plus
• Demonstrable use of at least one Service testing tool: SOAP UI, Ready API, Postman
• Usage of systems that support Continuous Integration (CI systems) - GitHub, Maven, Jenkins etc

Desirable skills:

• Knowledge and understanding of Rest and Web Services in relation to Performance Testing
• Some exposure to automation tools such as Selenium

Experience
8 - 12 years Shift Timing
1:00 PM - 9:30 PM Shift Primary Skills Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented Shift Time Recruiter Info Sunita M [C] smabl@allstate.com About Allstate Joining our team isnt just a job its an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good. Youll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, weve proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Good Hands. Greater Together.\xc2\xae The Allstate Corporation is one of the largest publicly held insurance providers in the United States. Ranked No. 84 in the 2023 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue, The Allstate Corporation owns and operates 18 companies in the United States, Canada, Northern Ireland, and India. Allstate India Private Limited, also known as Allstate India, is a subsidiary of The Allstate Corporation. The India talent center was set up in 2012 and operates under the corporation's Good Hands promise. As it innovates operations and technology, Allstate India has evolved beyond its technology functions to be the critical strategic business services arm of the corporation. With offices in Bengaluru and Pune, the company offers expertise to the parent organizations business areas including technology and innovation, accounting and imaging services, policy administration, transformation solution design and support services, transformation of property liability service design, global operations and integration, and training and transition. Learn more about Allstate India here.