[Remote] Sr. Quality Assurance Analyst

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company dedicated to providing security and planning for its policyholders. They are seeking a Senior QA Analyst to support their Distribution Partner Integration team, focusing on ensuring software quality for annuity product sales and servicing through testing and collaboration with various stakeholders.


Responsibilities

  • Leverage your insurance industry/technology experience to deliver comprehensive internal testing in support of company, industry, and vendor initiatives
  • Work independently to develop comprehensive testing strategy and reputed company test plans, analyze test results to validate existing functionality and recommend corrective action
  • Execute manual and exploratory testing, ensuring comprehensive test coverage to drive proper delivery outcomes
  • Manage defect tracking, triaging, and resolution processes, working closely with analysts and developers
  • Develop and maintain test automation frameworks for functional, regression, API, and performance testing
  • Work with internal business partners to support external user testing, to meet project deadlines and critical deployment dates
  • Assess automation opportunities while partnering with internal business and technology teams, and recommend process, product, or service enhancements
  • Drive early and continuous testing throughout the development lifecycle, adopting testing methodologies that support agile/kanban and ensuring early defect detection in the development lifecycle
  • Maintain documentation of test results to assist in debugging and modification of software

Skills

  • 8+ years annuity industry experience, a minimum of 5 years quality assurance experience focused on annuity product and order entry ecosystem
  • Demonstrated ability to form meaningful partnerships (internal/external) at all organizational levels resulting in practical solutions to complex problems
  • Excellent problem solving, root cause analysis, critical and strategic thinking skills
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
  • 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance & Quality Engineering
  • 5+ years annuity industry experience, focused on products and services on Order Entry platforms through PPfA/DPfA, forms-based or wizard-based configuration
  • Demonstrated hands-on expertise in manual testing, test case design, and defect management
  • Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Working knowledge of reputed company and ACORD annuity industry standards
  • Applied experience working with reputed company data structures and policy admin reputed company
  • Experience with FIDx/reputed company or similar third-party platforms
  • Experience in Life Insurance, Mutual Funds, and/or Institutional space
  • Experience navigating Mainframe systems to assist with data validation
  • QA Analysis certification, or equivalent education/training
  • Familiarity with technologies such as API's, Web Services, AI

Benefits

  • Prioritization of your health and well-being including Medical, Dental, Vision, and Wellbeing Reimbursement Account that can be used on yourself or your eligible dependents
  • Generous paid time off options including: Paid Time Off, Holiday Schedules, and Financial Planning Time Off
  • Paid Parental Leave as well as an Adoption Assistance Program
  • Competitive 401k savings plan with company match and an additional contribution regardless of participation

Company Overview

  • reputed company Insurance is an insurance company that provides life insurance products, annuities, and mutual funds. It was founded in 1868, and is headquartered in reputed company Beach, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is company.com/.

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