Nationwide Insurance. Grandview Heights, OH. Specialist, IT App Development. Serve as a test automation developer to support test automation strategy, create test plans, develop & execute test automation frameworks & lead testing related activities. Coordinate a team of automation developers & implement test plans for all phases of development, incl. master test strategies, test data management strategies, risk & dependency mitigation strategies & Release & Regression Testing. Develop automation tests from acceptance test criteria requirements, write complex queries & scripts using asset based test automation framework. Use various test automation strategies, continuous improvement & thought leadership to reduce defect injection, improve efficiency & quality. Understand & follow Agile/SCRUM practices. Adhere to enterprise processes incl. Quality Center - Defects. Req: MS in Comp Sci, MIS, Engg, Math or related field & 2 yrs of exp which must incl: Designing, building & maintaining test automation frameworks using Quality Center in an Agile environment; UI test automation using Selenium, Gherkin/Cucumber, RPA, & QTP/UFT; OO programming using Factory & Page Object Design Patterns; Object Relational Mapping methods incl. Sequel, ActiveRecord & SQL programming; Creating automation frameworks to test SOAP& RESTful based web services; Backend testing & defect management using Quality Center; Using Jenkins to create jobs & Cucumber reports; Using Jenkins & JNLP to parallel process test automation cases. Alt., BS w/ 5 years of progressive experience as specified above is acceptable.