Test Manager

The Test Manager will design Testing Best Practices and Standards for Reinsurance IT. They will lead and develop a centralized team of Testing Leads and ensure testing across the Reinsurance IT organization are following the best practices. Reinsurance IT applications have moved or are moving to the cloud. Test automation and cloud testing approach to be designed by the Test Manager

What youll be DOING

What will your essential responsibilities include?

• Provide thought leadership, technical expertise and implementation oversight for Testing approach, tools, and Testing automation in Cloud environment.
• Develop Testing Best Practices and Standards. Ensure that all testers across the Reinsurance organization are leveraging the best practices and standards including vendors doing the testing.
• Creation and/or review of Test Strategies for various applications including functional, regression, performance, and automated testing.
• Lead, coach and manage a core team of internal staff. Responsible for staff development and team culture. Testing culture to be leverage across testers outside of the Testing CoE.
• Best practices to include Triage and Prioritization of defects process.
• Engage with various stakeholders Application Owners, Product Owners, Testers, Developers, and other Reinsurance Teams.
• Identification of the resource strategy/skillset for testers including testing vendor strategy.
• Collaborate with developers and Test leads to improve and adapt testability.
• Ensure adequate and aligned test environments to support all testing needs
• Drive Performance Testing Strategy and Monitoring Strategy.
• Design and Develop performance testing capabilities for different user protocols.
• Monitor and report baseline metrics through regular performance test runs.
• Performance tool analysis and pilots to help address gaps and overcome roadblocks.
• Create System Integration Testing Approach that goes across Applications/Products.
• Oversight of User Acceptance Testing on critical applications.
• You will report to Senior Manager of Applications

Who WE are

Were looking for someone who has these abilities and skills:

• Extensive testing background and experience including a lead role and working with diverse teams across multiple time-zone.

• Knowledge/experience in Testing automation using Selenium or similar technologies
• Extensive experience in Performance Testing Landscape with tools such as LoadRunner, JMeter, etc.
• Liaison with DevOps Engineers to integrate test cases with CICD pipeline to automate testing in Cloud environments
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile-SCRUM methodology.
• Hands-on Experience in automation testing platforms and building frameworks using tools such as QTP /Selenium, Cucumber, etc.
• Good know-how into load setup and configuration, error diagnosis, throttle points, etc.
• Experience with cloud application testing and on prem application testing.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with experience of successfully influencing others.
• Having experience with UAT/System Integration testing in the insurance industry is a plus.
• Proven track record of value addition done to the Product / Solutions through robust Quality assurance process and governance.
• Experience in non-functional testing types of API testing, UI Testing is plus.
• Knowledge of different types of Software Architectures and how these work.
• Distinctive problem-solving and analytical skills combined with outstanding business acumen.