Associate Manager

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.

Job Description

The Test Engineer Associate Manager is a technical leader in the testing organization and is a strategic participant across many development efforts. The Test Engineer Associate Manager sets the overall direction for quality control automation throughout the organization. Also, the Associate The Performance Test Engineer (Architect) is a senior level Performance Test Engineer specializing in performance testing, supporting several product teams across multiple products of Allstate. They are a technical leader in the organization and support multiple Performance Test Engineers, providing direction and leadership on performance test strategy, script execution, and test automation framework/tools. The performance test architect sets the performance testing strategy, designs, and implements test automation architecture and designs, modifies, and enhances the test automation framework. They ensure consistent best practice-based approaches to performance testing and coordinate performance testing activity among Allstate employees and contract resources. The performance test architect is a self-starter that identifies and tackles issues proactively, with minimal direction from leadership. They also serve as a coach and mentor to Performance Test Engineers, assisting in solving problems and providing input to technical development planning

Key responsibilities include (but are not limited to)

• Define and implement performance test strategy that enables and supports Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery pipelines.
• Work across multiple teams to ensure the test strategy is implemented and followed consistently, providing technical and strategic leadership around performance testing automation.
• Collaborate with delivery partners, product engineers, and testing resources to build integrated CICD pipelines.
• Advocate for quality across the enterprise mentoring and leading junior team members to influence quality across all areas including product, business, platform consultant etc.
• Assess products within area of responsibility and lead teams to anticipate and prevent potential issues, articulate dependencies to the stakeholders.
• Work alongside product and platform consultant and architects to troubleshoot production issues and come up with remediation plans for performance issues to help maintain high application availability.
• Keeping up to date with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in performance testing; and recommend and implement improvements.
• Effectively convey performance test results, findings, and recommendations to Sr leaders and stakeholders.
• Performance test architect support local delivery teams through:
  • Backfilling performance engineering resources when necessary; engaging in all Performance Test activity.
  • Provide support for Classic PTL products with Performance Analytics activities.
  • Support team's skill development, helping identify development needs and providing coaching.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• This job does not have supervisory duties.

Education and Experience

• 10+ Years of Experience in Performance Testing/Engineering Area

In lieu of the above education requirements, an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

CERTIFICATIONS, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

• No Certification, License or Registration is required for the job.

Essential Skills / criteria

• Mastery of industry-standard performance testing tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, Gatling, or others.
• Proficiency in using performance monitoring tools like Datadog, AppDynamics, Splunk, Dynatrace to capture various performance metrics.
• Ability to create detailed performance test plans including workload modeling, scenarios, and success criteria.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise application architecture and technologies including web and web services.
• Familiarity with network protocols (HTTP, HTTPS, TCP/IP) and their impact on application performance.
• Experience developing and implementing performance test strategy based on best practice and including typical performance testing approaches: load generation, bottleneck analysis, usage of modeling tools and statistical analysis.
• Experience with monitoring solutions and KPIs used to determine application availability and performance.
• Experience creating load test scripts with AjaxTruClient, Web (Http/HTML), Webservices.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey performance test results, findings, and recommendations to stakeholders.
• Strong troubleshooting skills to diagnose performance issues and identify root causes.
• Knowledge of performance optimization techniques and ability to recommend and implement improvements based on test findings.
• Practical experience with at least one of the following: Java, C#, Python, .NET, Selenium, UFT, SQL
• Experience working in an agile engineering environment.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
• Experience with Source Code Management Tools (e.g. Git, TFS, RTC)
• Experience using test management tools (e.g. VersionOne, HPQC, Jira Zephyr)

Primary Skills

Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented

Primary Skills

Customer Centricity, Digital Literacy, Inclusive Leadership, Learning Agility, Results-Oriented

Shift Time

General Shift (India)

Recruiter Info

Sunita Mmaabd@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.

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 .