IT QE Lead Manager
• Support Quality Engineering within the life insurance business division, ensuring quality delivery of all life technology projects while building automation first mindset, creating efficiencies and leveraging the full team's potential, including a large offshore contingent.
-- Leverage Offshore to its full potential, ensuring knowledge resource, productivity, quality business outcome. Understand how to assess project health, .
•End to End individual platform responsibility for quality of code changes, technical design, business value and regression
•Ability to work with key business stakeholders and articulate any risks, defects, issues etc.
•Hands on automation experience on front end and legacy applications, with the goal of developing an automation first mindset within the team
•Utilize modernized methodologies (Agile, Scrum, BDD/TDD) to deliver software with high business value and quality, while ensuring low production leakage
• Implement institutionalized standards of quality engineering into the team
• Define &#CD# standardize metrics and tools to improve monitoring and transparency
• Expand Test Automation to improve quality, reduce cycle times and optimize risk
• Enable a culture of continuous improvement within the QE guild to up-skill talent and improve employee engagement
• Work with QE guild leads to provide innovative solutions and improve Quality throughout the squad/tribe
•Communicate pulse of the project at the executive level with key business stakeholders, IT leaders, and business partners.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Skills/Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree
• 7+ years of experience in quality engineering or quality assurance leadership and management is required.
• 3+ years of in life insurance product and admin system experience is highly preferred.
• 4+ years of technical and leadership experience supporting test automation and test service virtualization
• Knowledge of software testing concepts and methodologies including automation test script building/execution and agile TDD/BDD and exploratory testing
• Strong Interpersonal / relationship management skills, able to foster working relationships within the team, across IT and with business colleagues
• Knowledge of business and technology practices and trends
• Ability to influence, negotiate, and elicit important details
• Strong knowledge of business and technology practices and trends
• Flexible and adaptable – expects and embraces change
• Ability to communicate effectively through both written and verbal means with all levels of the organization
ABOUT Equitable:
We have been providing stability and reliability to our clients since 1859 to help them live their lives with confidence, to give them peace of mind, and enable them to realize their dreams for their loved ones and their legacy.
As an employer Equitable is committed to creating an environment where everyone feels completely comfortable bringing their true selves to work every day. Equitable US has been recognized and certified as a great place to work by the Great Place to Work Institute.
We provide our employees opportunities to move within our organization so they can grow their career and skills without ever having to leave Equitable. Almost 40% of our open jobs are filled with current employees.
NOTE: Equitable participates in the E-Verify program.
In addition to competitive compensation and an outstanding benefits package including 401 (k) and medical programs, we offer the opportunity for continued professional development in a congenial corporate environment.
Equitable is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to our employees, applicants and candidates based on individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, age, national origin, mental or physical disabilities, sexual orientation, veteran status, genetic information or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.