Specialist, Software Engineer - Test Automation Developer (Ruby & 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.

About the Team

The SEEJET (Servicing, Experience Engineering Journeys & Technology) team within Nationwide Financials' Digital Servicing organization focuses on delivering end‑to‑end, high‑impact customer and financial professional journeys. SEEJET engineers work on servicing Journey such as Manage My Book of Business, Manage My Investments, Manage My Accounts and Journey Foundation work.

You will be embedded in a true cross‑functional product team, partnering closely with business leaders, CX/UX teams, Product Architects, and fellow engineers to deliver modern, scalable solutions with strong visibility and support from senior leadership.

Role Overview

SEEJET Team at Nationwide Financial is seeking a TAD professional to support the development, testing, and ongoing quality assurance of customer-facing and internal applications serving members, financial professionals, and internal associates across NationwideFinancial.com and Nationwide.com.

In this role, you will focus on Ruby conversion to Playwright and Playwright script development to enable robust automated testing across strategic servicing journeys. You will be responsible for developing and executing end-to-end and functional test scripts, validating application behavior, identifying defects, and providing testing support throughout the delivery lifecycle.

As part of the SEEJET team, you will contribute to ensuring application quality, stability, and reliability while supporting modern engineering initiatives and major journey improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate end-to-end customer and financial professional servicing journeys across Digital Servicing applications, with focus on quality, stability, and business outcome confidence.
• Coordinate with upstream partners and various data sources to create and maintain test data.
• Create test plans to be reviewed by and monitored by the business.
• Perform risk analysis on application changes to determine a risk based test approach.
• Partner daily with developers, product, UX, architecture, and business stakeholders to clarify requirements, identify risks early, and support fast, informed delivery decisions.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automated test coverage and supporting test assets for modernized and legacy Digital Servicing solutions.
• Contribute to major product launches and servicing journey modernization efforts by ensuring high-quality validation, regression readiness, and release confidence.
• Support and improve existing services through functional testing, regression testing, defect management, and validation of production-ready behavior.
• Help maintain a trusted, healthy automation suite and improve test data, test evidence, and validation practices across the team.
• Use modern engineering and quality practices, including pairing, test strategy collaboration, defect triage, and continuous improvement of delivery standards.
• Leverage Generative AI tools such as GitHub Copilot to improve test productivity, automation quality, and engineering efficiency.

Preferred Technical Experience

• Playwright
• API Validation
• SQL
• Ruby
• Familiar with Cloud platforms (AWS and Kubernetes experience preferred)
• Familiar with Angular

Nice‑To‑Have Experience

• GraphQL
• Kafka or other event‑driven architectures

Agile & DevOps Practices

• Experience working within Agile teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, Harness, GitHub Actions)
• Strong interest in automation and improving software delivery processes

This Position Is Ideal for a Well‑Rounded Full‑Stack Engineer Who:

• Wants ownership of meaningful, customer‑facing journeys
• Enjoys working across the stack and across disciplines
• Values modern engineering practices and continuous improvement
• Is excited to contribute to high‑visibility, strategic initiatives while continuing to grow in a supportive, collaborative environment

This will be a hybrid role based out of the Columbus, OH. The team comes in Mondays and Tuesdays for collaboration.

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

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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 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 in an agile environment.

• 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 medium to large 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: Completion of 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: Four 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. Strong knowledge of software development lifecycle. Proven ability to tackle complex 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.

NOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:

We value the partnerships we have built with our preferred vendors. Nationwide does not accept unsolicited resumes from employment agencies. All resumes submitted by employment agencies directly to any Nationwide employee or hiring manager in any form without a signed Nationwide Client Services Agreement on file and search engagement for that position will be deemed unsolicited in nature. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is subsequently hired as a result of the referral or through other means.

Nationwide pays on a geographic-specific salary structure and placement within the actual starting salary range for this position will be determined by a number of factors including the skills, education, training, credentials and experience of the candidate; the scope, complexity and location of the role as well as the cost of labor in the market; and other conditions of employment. If a Sales job, Sales Incentives, based on performance goals are possible in addition to this range. Note on Compensation for Part-Time Roles: Please be aware that the salary ranges listed below reflect full-time compensation. Actual compensation may be prorated based on the number of hours worked relative to a full-time schedule.

The national salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00-$177,500.00

The expected starting salary range for Specialist, Software Engineer : $95,500.00 - $143,500.00