The Provider Technology Shared Services Engineering team is seeking Automation Engineering Advisor for a Band 4 Contributor Career Track position.

As a member of our team, you will operate within a high-performance, high-frequency enterprise technology environment. This role entails collaborating closely with IT management and staff to identify automated solutions that leverage existing resources with tailored configurations for each use case. The objective is to minimize redundancy in solutions while promoting an enterprise mindset focused on reusability and maintaining high standards, ultimately ensuring minimal future maintenance requirements.

Additionally, the Advisor stays informed about the latest advancements in technology, including AI and machine learning, to enhance both existing and new automation solutions. These solutions are designed to optimize production costs while facilitating the addition or updating of features aimed at improving the overall software development lifecycle experiences.

Responsibilities:

· Provides strategic vision in architectural design and Test Automation guidance for the team, emphasizing a thorough evaluation of the quality attributes of a software system.

· Conduct comprehensive research and evaluation of all potential solutions to recommend the most efficient and cost-effective automation solution that can be reused with an enterprise mindset.

· Ensures that engineering solutions are aligned with the overall Technology strategy while addressing all application requirements.

· Demonstrate industry-leading technical abilities that enhance product quality and optimize day-to-day operations.

· Troubleshoot and optimize automated solutions and related artifacts to ensure seamless execution in CI/CD pipelines and on local machines, minimizing software and package dependencies or conflicts to reduce cycle time.

· Execute on a strategy to hand over the automation solutions to every Agile teams for adoption and use within their areas of focus, requiring zero maintenance and minimal effort for any enhancements without delving into coding.

Qualifications:

Required Skills:

• Experience in architecting Functional Test Automation framework like TDD, BDD using cucumber.

• Strong hands on with Python, Docker, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, SQL, Selenium, multi-threading, asynchronous programming, concurrency, caching, and generative AI prompt engineering.

• Demonstrated capability to develop script-less frameworks that are scalable to enterprise level for various applications, achieved through configuration rather than coding using Python, Shell Scripts.

• Exposure in Applying Gen AI in below test automation deliverables,

• AI driven test case generation

• Self- healing test automation

• AI powered data generation

• Anomaly detection logs and databases.

• Autonomous validations across UI, API and Database

• Familiarity with contemporary delivery practices, including DevOps, continuous deployment, continuous integration, continuous testing, behavior-driven development, and specification by example.

• Expertise in cloud infrastructure and platforms, including Amazon Web Services and Open Shift.

• Exposure into Non-functional testing automation on performance and security testing.

Required Experience & Education:

• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field is required.

• A minimum of 11-13 years of professional experience in Functional Test Automation is required. This includes expertise in Desktop, Mobile, API, Web, and Cloud.

• At least 6 years of experience in Agile methodologies is required.

• Familiar with utilizing Gen AI tools for implementing Automation frameworks.

• Familiarity with an onshore/offshore operational model is essential.

• Demonstrated experience in the architecture, design, and development of large-scale enterprise application solutions is required.

Desired Experience:

• UI automation through Playwright and utilizing Playwright MCP integration.

• Building AI agents for automation and tuning models for automation.

• Proficient in triaging and identifying functional issues, including root cause analysis, connection problems, and application bottlenecks.

• Providing coaching and guidance to team members.

About Evernorth Health Services

Evernorth Health Services, a division of The Cigna Group, creates pharmacy, care and benefit solutions to improve health and increase vitality. We relentlessly innovate to make the prediction, prevention and treatment of illness and disease more accessible to millions of people. Join us in driving growth and improving lives.