Automation Test Engineer – Onsite in Downtown KC

Americo Financial Life and Annuity; North Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Americo Financial Life and Annuity is seeking a full-time Test Automation Engineer on-site in Downtown Kansas City, MO. The role focuses on developing and executing automated testing coverage for life insurance and annuity applications.

You will collaborate with QA, development, and business partners to improve testability, maintain frameworks, and ensure release quality through automated tests.

Qualifications

• Foundational QA skills including requirement analysis, defect tracking and troubleshooting.
• Basic programming and object-oriented concepts, particularly C.
• Experience adding automated tests to an existing framework using Selenium WebDriver.
• APIs/web services testing concepts including REST, SoapUI or Postman.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, time management and task management skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for assigned applications and user stories using approved frameworks, coding standards and reusable components to validate functional and regression requirements.
• Execute automated test suites in local and shared environments; review results for accuracy and identify failures, flaky tests and coverage gaps.
• Troubleshoot failed tests to determine cause (application defect, data issue, environment instability or script error) and elevate findings with evidence.
• Prepare and maintain test data input combinations and business scenarios reflecting core life insurance and annuity workflows.
• Contribute to shared automation framework components, utilities and object repositories to improve script reliability and reuse.
• Document automated test cases, execution outcomes and known issues to support audits or release reviews.
• Collaborate with QA developers and business partners to clarify requirements, assess testability and identify automation candidates.
• Continue building core C and automation skills while deepening understanding of Americo’s products and systems.

Skills

QA fundamentals

Programming basics

Selenium

API testing

Analytical thinking

Education

Two-year college training

Tools

Selenium WebDriver

Job description

Americo Financial Life and Annuity is seeking a full-time Test Automation Engineer on-site in Downtown Kansas City, MO. The role focuses on developing and executing automated testing coverage for life insurance and annuity applications.

You will collaborate with QA, development, and business partners to improve testability, maintain frameworks, and ensure release quality through automated tests.