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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.The F Band Specialist, Test Lead for the NF Actuarial Datamart is responsible for leading test planning, test execution, and data validation activities that support delivery of high-quality data and application solutions. This role partners closely with developers, analysts, and business partners to define effective testing scenarios, analyze data issues, manage defects, and respond to walk-up support requests.\nThis position is a strong fit for someone with a solid testing background who also has an interest in development and automation. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience in data-focused testing, enjoys problem solving, and is comfortable working across both quality assurance and technical solution delivery.\nIt is our intention to fill this role in Columbus, Ohio on a hybrid basis. The team come in for collaboration on Mondays and Tuesdays. However, on occasion, applications from internal candidates working remotely who bring critical industry skills and relevant experience may be considered.\nTools and Technologies Used\nETL: Informatica, Python\nScripts: Perl, Python\nDatabases: Oracle, SQL Server, Snowflake\nTest Automation: Ruby, Python\nKey Responsibilities\nLead testing efforts for NF Actuarial Datamart initiatives, including test planning, scenario development, execution, and validation\nAssist developers in identifying and refining testing scenarios for new development, enhancements, and defect fixes\nPerform detailed data validation to confirm expected results across source, transformation, and target layers\nWrite and execute SQL queries to investigate data conditions, validate results, and support root cause analysis\nAnalyze data issues and partner with development teams to determine cause, impact, and resolution approach\nManage defects through the full lifecycle, including documentation, prioritization, retesting, and closure support\nHandle walk-up requests and provide timely support for testing questions, data concerns, and issue triage\nSupport and enhance test automation efforts, including Ruby-based automation where applicable\nWork with Informatica-based processes and data movement workflows as part of validation and issue analysis\nContribute to continuous improvement of testing practices, automation coverage, and overall quality processes\nCollaborate across teams to ensure quality standards are met and releases are production ready\nRequired Qualifications\n5+ years of experience in testing or quality assurance, with emphasis on data validation and system/integration testing\nExperience with Ruby automation or automated testing frameworks\nExperience working with Informatica processes in an ETL or data integration environment\nStrong experience with data validation and analysis of upstream and downstream data issues\nAbility to write SQL queries for testing, troubleshooting, and validation purposes\nExposure to Python and interest in expanding development-oriented technical skills\nExperience managing defects and supporting issue triage through resolution\nAbility to work directly with developers to clarify requirements, define test scenarios, and improve solution quality\nStrong analytical, organizational, and communication skills\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience supporting enterprise data platforms or actuarial data environments\nExperience in ETL, data warehouse, or datamart testing\nFamiliarity with release validation, regression testing, and automation-first quality practices\nInterest in growing from a testing-focused role into broader technical or development responsibilities\nCandidate Profile\nThe strongest candidate will have a testing mindset, strong technical curiosity, and a desire to grow deeper into development and automation. They should be comfortable balancing structured quality practices with hands-on technical investigation, while serving as a dependable partner to developers and stakeholders.\nThis role does not qualify for employer-sponsored work authorization. Nationwide does not participate in the Stem OPT Extension program.\n#LI-AZ1\nJob Description Summary\nNationwide’s industry leading workforce is passionate about creating data solutions that are secure, reliable and efficient in support of our mission to provide extraordinary care. Nationwide embraces an agile work environment and collaborative culture through the understanding of business processes, relationship entities and requirements using data analysis, quality, visualization, governance, engineering, robotic process automation, and machine learning to produce targeted data solutions. If you have the drive and desire to be part of a future forward data enabled culture, we want to hear from you.As a Data Engineer you’ll be responsible for acquiring, curating, and publishing data for analytical or operational uses. Data should be in a ready-to-use form that creates a single version of the truth across all data consumers, including business users, data scientists, and Technology. Ready-to-use data can be for both real time and batch data processes and may include unstructured data. Successful data engineers have the skills typically required for the full lifecycle software engineering development from translating requirements into design, development, testing, deployment, and production maintenance tasks. You’ll have the opportunity to work with various technologies from big data, relational and SQL databases, unstructured data technology, and programming languages.\nJob Description\nKey Responsibilities:\nProvides basic to moderate technical consultation on data product projects by analyzing end to end data product requirements and existing business processes to lead in the design, development and implementation of data products.\n\nProduces data building blocks, data models, and data flows for varying client demands such as dimensional data, standard and ad hoc reporting, data feeds, dashboard reporting, and data science research & exploration\n\nApplies secure software and systems engineering practices throughout the delivery lifecycle to ensure our data and technology solutions are protected from threats and vulnerabilities.\n\nTranslates business data stories into a technical story breakdown structure and work estimate so value and fit for a schedule or sprint is determined.\n\nCreates simple to moderate business user access methods to structured and unstructured data by such techniques such as mapping data to a common data model, NLP, transforming data as necessary to satisfy business rules, AI, statistical computations and validation of data content.\n\nAssists the enterprise DevSecOps team and other internal organizations on CI/CD best practices experience using JIRA, Jenkins, Confluence etc.\n\nImplements production processes and systems to monitor data quality, ensuring production data is always accurate and available for key stakeholders and business processes that depend on it.\n\nDevelops and maintains scalable data pipelines for both streaming and batch requirements and builds out new API integrations to support continuing increases in data volume and complexity.\n\nWrites and performs data unit/integration tests for data quality With input from a business requirements/story, creates and executes testing data and scripts to validate that quality and completeness criteria are satisfied. Can create automated testing programs and data that are re-usable for future code changes.\n\nPractices code management and integration with engineering Git principle and practice repositories.\n\nMay perform other responsibilities as assigned.\nReporting Relationships: Reports to Manager/Director Data Leader.\nTypical Skills and Experiences:\nEducation: Undergraduate studies in computer science, management information systems, business, statistics, math, a related field or comparable experience and education strongly preferred. Graduate studies in business, statistics, math, computer science or a related field are a plus.\nLicense/Certification/Designation: Certifications are not required but encouraged.\nExperience: Three to five years of relevant experience with data quality rules, data management organization/standards, practices and software development. Experience in data warehousing, statistical analysis, data models, and queries. One to three years’ experience with Cloud technology and infrastructure including security and access management. Insurance/financial services industry knowledge a plus.\nKnowledge, Abilities and Skills: Data application and practices knowledge. Moderate to advanced skills with modern programming and scripting languages (e.g., SQL, R, Python, Spark, UNIX Shell scripting, Perl, or Ruby). Good problem solving, oral and written communication skills.\nOther criteria, including leadership skills, competencies and experiences may take precedence.\nStaffing exceptions to the above must be approved by the hiring manager’s leader and HR Business Partner.\nValues: Regularly and consistently demonstrates the Nationwide Values.\nJob Conditions:\nOvertime Eligibility: Exempt (Not Eligible)\nWorking Conditions: Normal office environment.\nADA: 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.\nBenefits\nWe 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.\nNationwide 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.\nNOTE TO EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES:\nWe 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.\nNationwide 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. 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