Sr. Engineer, Test Automation Developer (Playwright)

If you’re passionate about being part of a dynamic organization that enables a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales to drive innovation and adopt new technologies that deliver business results, then Nationwide’s Technology team could be the place for you! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care.

This role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.

As a Test Automation Developer on our Angular product team, you will design, build, and maintain automated tests using Playwright to ensure our customer-facing web experiences are reliable, accessible, and performant. You’ll work closely with engineers, product managers, and quality engineers to embed testing into the development lifecycle and support continuous delivery.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement end-to-end UI test automation for Angular applications using Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript).

• Build and maintain reliable, reusable test frameworks, page objects, and utilities that can be extended by the team.

• Collaborate with developers and product owners to translate requirements and user flows into test scenarios and automation coverage.

• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions/Harness/Jenkins) and keep builds green and meaningful.

• Monitor, triage, and debug flaky or failing tests, working with engineers to identify root causes and improve application/test design.

• Define and track test coverage across critical user journeys, regression packs, smoke tests, and production validation checks.

• Contribute to test data strategy (creating, managing, and cleaning test data for repeatable tests).

• Champion quality engineering practices: shift-left testing, code reviews for test code, pairing with developers, and improving tooling and standards.

• Support accessibility, performance, and security considerations within automated test suites where appropriate.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in test automation for web applications.

• Strong programming skills in TypeScript or JavaScript.

• Hands-on experience building UI test automation with Playwright (or equivalent modern browser automation tools, with willingness to move to Playwright).

• Experience testing Angular or other modern SPA frameworks (React, Vue, etc.), including working with dynamic DOM, routes, and APIs.

• Solid understanding of testing best practices (unit, integration, E2E, smoke, regression, test pyramid, mocking, and stubs).

• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and working with Git-based workflows.

• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across UI, API, and environment issues.

• Comfortable working in an agile environment and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with page object patterns, test design patterns, and modular test frameworks.

• Exposure to API testing (e.g., Postman, REST clients, or Playwright API testing).

• Experience with cloud-based environments and containerized test execution (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).

• Familiarity with accessibility testing tools and practices for web applications.

• Experience in large, regulated, or enterprise environments (financial services/insurance a plus).

What You Bring

• A developer mindset applied to testing: you treat automation as a product with its own design, architecture, and quality bar.

• A focus on maintainability and reliability over one-off scripts.

• Strong communication skills and a willingness to pair, mentor, and share best practices with the team.

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Job Description Summary

If you’re enthusiastic about delivering secure technology solutions to support a company providing extraordinary care to its customers, then Nationwide Technology is the place for you. Nationwide's industry-leading technology workforce embraces an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to hear from you!

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will focus primarily on providing high quality, efficient technology solutions to business partners by crafting new software applications or modifying and/or supporting existing packaged or custom-built applications. In this capacity, you’ll analyze, code, configure, test, debug, document and maintain applications.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyzes, solutions, develops, tests, debugs, documents and deploys software according to standards and best practices. 

• Applies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.

• Uses DevSecOps practices, tooling and techniques. 

• Drives continuous improvement and learning through ongoing training, practice and innovation. 

• Manages project priorities, deadlines and deliverables proactively. 

May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Reporting Relationships: Reports to a Technology Manager/Director. 

Typical Skills and Experiences:

Education: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, or other related degree. Technology experience or non-traditional technology certificates can be substituted for an undergraduate degree. 

Experience: Two or more years of analysis and technology experience.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills: Proficiency in one or more programming language such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript. Knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle moderately sophisticated business and development problems. Ability to thrive in a team environment. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.

Other criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence. 

Staffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and Human Resources Business Partner.

Values: Regularly and consistently demonstrates Nationwide Values.

Job Conditions:

Overtime Eligibility: Not Eligible (Exempt)

Working Conditions: Office environment may vary based on team and/or location. Associates may have on-call responsibility after normal working hours and/or on weekends. 

ADA: The above statements cover what are generally believed to be principal and essential functions of this job. Specific circumstances may allow or require some people assigned to the job to perform a somewhat different combination of duties. 

Benefits

We have an array of benefits to fit your needs, including: medical/dental/vision, life insurance, short and long term disability coverage, paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date, nine paid holidays, 8 hours of Lifetime paid time off, 8 hours of Unity Day paid time off, 401(k) with company match, company-paid pension plan, business casual attire, and more. To learn more about the benefits we offer, click here.

Nationwide is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone feels challenged, appreciated, respected and engaged. Nationwide prohibits discrimination and harassment and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to any characteristic (or classification) protected by applicable law.

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