at Zurich American Insurance Company in Schaumburg, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Zurich (Schaumburg, IL) seeks a Project Test and Quality Manager responsible for designing and developing the Testing Strategy for all phases of the testing including Sprint testing, System Integration, Regression, Automation and Performance testing for multiple projects on the platform and assessing and maturing the current testing capabilities and integrating with existing CI/CD pipeline. Specific duties include: assist management and vendor Test Leads with assessing Test frameworks, tools, resource planning, estimations and planning; play a key subject matter expert role in the area of software quality assurance testing; remain current with industry trends with testing techniques and methodologies; provide implementation testing support of technology solutions in an Agile environment; partner with Business Analysts/Business SME’s to help define Integration, User Acceptance and Regression testing strategy/plan; provide day to day direction to the testing teams, which includes onsite and offshore contract Resources; participate in daily stand-up/Scrum calls and project status meetings to provide testing status and testing metrics; identify key risk items and dependencies and communicate effectively with cross functional Teams. May work remotely 60% of the time.
Position requires a Bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Electronics Engineering, or a closely related field of study, plus 6 years of experience in the job offered, or as a IT Project Manager, Quality Service Manager, or similar position in software development testing. Must have 6 years of experience with driving and authoring test strategies, including activities and plans for in-sprint testing, integration testing, end-to-end testing, regression testing, and smoke testing. Must also have 5 years of experience working on agile based teams. Additionally, must have 3 years of experience with each of the following: determining go/no-go decisions and driving quality gates for software deployments, including recommendations and risks if deployments were to go-live; working with non-functional requirements testing; and working with Jira or other equivalent software development management tool to produce test metrics and test execution reports. Specific experience must also include managing teams through the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC Model) and leading users through user acceptance testing (UAT). May work remotely 60% of the time.
Full time position. Apply by submitting your resumes at Zurichna.com/en/careers, Job ID: 111755
