Corporate Vice President, Test Engineer - Quality Assurance

Location Designation:Fully Remote

Location: Fully Remote - reports to 51 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10010

Offered Wage: $150,280.00/year

Duties: Works with product streams to perform Quality Assurance (QA) evaluations, examine upstream and downstream system impacts, and facilitate testing requirements for the overall product release. Manages onshore and offshore testing resources for the successful development and execution of detailed test cases and test scripts. Mentors and develops junior QA testing resources, imparts domain knowledge, and provides guidance through the testing process. Prepares testing strategy documents and high-level QA estimations for all projects. Analyzes and defines QA testing strategies and maintains overall test plans and strategies that drive and govern the execution of multiple projects and initiatives. Documents test automation strategies and framework for project adoption, and reviews and approves estimates submitted by Testers. Reviews test plans and scripts documented by the QA team according to the approved test strategy document, and approves test plans and scripts before the commencement of test execution. Manages the testing life cycle (Waterfall or Agile) depending on the type of approach defined in the test strategy. Runs checkpoint calls with Testers to track the status and progress of test execution. Reviews testing results and approves code for User Acceptance Testing (UAT). Reviews changes with UAT business partners and is accountable for obtaining UAT approval. Reviews and approves final test closure reports and secures approval for build phase gate purposes. Monitors and identifies risks during testing, documents mitigation plans, and drives consensus with respective stakeholders. Works with the Test Center of Excellence (TCOE) to ensure effective implementation and usage of test management processes and tools for all initiatives. Participates on the company's Test Strategy review board to review and approve the test strategies across technology organizations. Interfaces with Test Shared Services concerning testing automation, performance, and security testing. Supports Data Analysts in the definition of the test data management approach. Identifies test data to ensure it satisfies Production test conditions and works with Test Data Management teams to load the appropriate policies to the QA environment. Supports the Environment Manager in the establishment and validation of the testing environment and supports Testers in the definition of application and integration test scenarios and the preparation of test scripts and data. Tracks key testing metrics and communicates progress towards overall testing goals to the IT core team and business stakeholders.

Education & Experience Requirements: Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) plus three (3) years of experience performing testing across integration, functional, regression, ETL, databases, cloud applications, and highly-integrated complex environments

or,

alternatively, a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, Electronic Engineering (willing to accept foreign education equivalent) and five (5) years of experience performing testing across integration, functional, regression, ETL, databases, cloud applications, and highly-integrated complex environments. Specific skills/other requirements - Experience must include 3 years in all components of each of the following skills: 1) Building and developing Quality Assurance (QA) strategies and implementing "best practices" for automation leveraging Agile methodology and test-driven development (TDD) frameworks; 2) Developing test frameworks and test cases leveraging stored procedures, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), JIRA, JSON files, SOAPUI, Postman, and cloud data; 3) Building, executing, and analyzing automation test suites for SSIS business rules, data quality, case management, extract, transform, load (ETL) (including SSIS, Ab Initio, and Informatica), user experience, user dashboards, and reports (including SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), PowerBI, Cognos, and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE); 4) Developing complex SQL scripts and automating source to target data validation, flat files, and Excel for database checks, transformation rules, and business logic validation leveraging Oracle, MS SQL Server, and SnowFlake databases; and 5) Mentoring junior-level testing resources to strategize and coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality deliverables.

This is a fully remote position reporting to New York Life's headquarters in New York, NY; applicants may work from a home address anywhere in the United States.

Eligible for Employee Referral Program.

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Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Pay Transparency

Overtime eligible:Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible:Yes

Sales bonus eligible:No

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual's experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

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Job Requisition ID:91506