Quality Assurance Engineer

Kforce has a client in NYC that is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to provide leadership, direction, and management, with overall accountability for IT Quality Assurance teams across insurance and assigned business lines. This role includes overseeing a team of consultants and leading the Quality Assurance team through a process-driven methodology to achieve project goals while adhering to QA standards and practices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead several IT Quality Assurance teams through a clearly defined process-driven methodology to ensure project goals, QA standards, and internal best practices are routinely and meticulously followed
• Partner with Business and Development teams to review business/technical requirements and guides and assists QA testers in generating comprehensive test strategy, plans, impact analysis and test cases for effective assurance and testing functions
• Manage QA capacity and resources and scheduling QA activities and quality gates for their project teams
• Through contribution, help define and establish new sets of best-practices, processes, scorecards and tooling for Quality Assurance organization; This is to ensure that overall productivity and quality is measured to optimize targeted milestones
• Collaborate with the Automation Lead(s) to establish a standards-based automation and performance testing competency; This includes developing a robust testing framework, utilizing testing and test management tools, and creating test data and test cases for key applications across the portfolio
• Develop and maintain functional, end-to-end, performance, and regression test suites that thoroughly cover all aspects of applications across the portfolio
• Ensure comprehensive impact analysis is conducted and reviewed thoroughly to identify the right test cases that cover relevant exposures, in collaboration with project stakeholders* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of experience as a Software Quality Assurance Lead
• Experience is required in managing software/application testing for Insurance industry Specialty and Commercial LOBs experience implementing new products and platforms is strongly preferred
• Knowledge in Automation Testing Tools like HP QTP, Selenium, etc., is preferred and specifically how they are used in UI, Forms and Rating testing
• Strong software engineering and development lifecycle knowledge
• Strong hands-on experience with planning and testing UI as well as back-office systems that require Web services or batch-based integrations and implementations
• Knowledge with performance testing tools (LoadRunner, AppLoader, etc.) as well as data profiling for representative load testing is preferred
• Experience with Microsoft TFS and Test Manager (MTM) for test management is preferred
• Quality Assurance leadership experience with Guidewire Insurance solutions is highly preferred
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment
• Strong management and leadership experience