Associate QA/Testing Analyst

Genworth; United States; Remote; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Genworth is seeking an Associate QA/Testing Analyst to join their IT team. This role involves ensuring top-notch quality for Long Term Care claims administration systems through comprehensive testing strategies. Candidates should have a strong analytical mindset and prior experience in quality assurance, particularly in the insurance domain. Join them to support essential technology solutions and contribute to improving company processes!

Benefits

Competitive Compensation & Total Rewards Incentives

Attractive Mediclaim Coverage

Annual Leave of up to 25 days

12 Sick Leaves

12 Casual Leaves

Additional leaves for marriage and child-birth

11 Holidays for all employees

Utility Allowance

Employment Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Experience in insurance/finance domain preferred.
• Knowledge of LTC insurance products ideal.
• Agile experience and testing across Java & Mainframe preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support QA efforts on Long Term Care claims administration systems.
• Conduct test plan/case reviews and execute test cases.
• Track progress and document test results and defects.

Skills

Analytical skills

Attention to detail

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

4-year college degree

Relevant experience as a quality analyst

Tools

SQL

Excel

Scripting

Other MS Office tools

Job description

At Genworth, we empower families to navigate the aging journey with confidence. We are compassionate, experienced allies for those navigating care withguidance, products, and services that meet families where they are. Further, we are the spouses, children, siblings, friends, and neighbors of those that need care—and we bring those experiences with us to work in serving our millions of policyholders each day.

We apply that same compassion and empathy as we work with each other and our local communities. Genworth values all perspectives, characteristics, and experiences so that employees can bring their full, authentic selves to work to help each other and our company succeed. We celebrate our diversity and understand that being intentional about inclusion is the only way to create a sense of belonging for all associates. We also invest in the vitality of our local communities through grants from the Genworth Foundation, event sponsorships, and employee volunteerism.

Our four values guide our strategy, our decisions, and our interactions:

• Make it human. We care about the people that make up our customers, colleagues, and communities.
• Make it about others. We do what’s best for our customers and collaborate to drive progress.
• Make it happen. We work with intention toward a common purpose and forge ways forward together.
• Make it better.We create fulfilling purpose-driven careers by learning from the world and each other.

POSITION TITLE

Associate QA/Testing Analyst

POSITION LOCATION

Remote (India)

YOUR ROLE

As an IT team member, you’ll play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and managing technology solutions that are the foundation of the world class customer service that our customers expect and deserve – now and in the future.

In your role as an Quality Assurance analyst, you will support Genworth’s top strategic priorities. The person selected will work with the LTC Claims Admin application teams. The teams are responsible for support and development activities for multiple applications across different technologies, maintaining system health and implementing changes to support the business.

We are looking for people with a strong attention to detail and focus on quality. In your role as a QA Test Analyst, you are responsible for the planning, design and execution of system testing. You will conduct test plan/case reviews, execute test cases and evaluate and report test results. The role will involve extensive collaboration with other developers, Business Analysts and QA members on the team as well as with Business Partners and other IT teams. You will gain Genworth product and application knowledge as part of a team that is driving change and innovation within the company.

What you will be doing

• Support the quality assurance efforts on the Long Term Care claims administration systems, participating in the complete QA cycle, including analysis, planning, execution and reporting.
• Review Business Requirement Specifications, Technical Design Documents and perform impact analysis to build test strategy followed by creation of the test plan, identification of test cases and laying out the activities to be performed, to meet the test objectives.
• Execute the activities per the test plan, tracking progress and documenting test results and defects. Liaise with the developers, product owners, business analysts and other stakeholders to monitor and report testing progress.
• In case defects are discovered in testing, determine defect impact and severity, and track defect to closure including planning and execution of any retesting needed. Provide feedback to developers to reduce future defect incidence. For defects that leak into production, perform RCA and enhance testing efforts to avoid repetition.
• Perform administrative duties in conjunction with the departmental requirements (participate and contribute in meetings, agile ceremonies (Stand Ups, Core Hours, Retrospectives etc.), respond to correspondence in a timely manner, provide status updates, review/update/submit tickets, participate in change management activities).
• Take ownership of work and collaborate with the team to ensure all planned activities are completed in a timely manner. Assist other team members as needed and contribute towards activity planning, estimations, and prioritization.
• Participate as needed in different types of QA efforts including but not limited to smoke testing, unit testing, functional testing, user acceptance testing, performance testing, regression testing, interface testing etc.
• Contribute towards advancing the overall QA organization, by staying up-to-date with new testing tools and strategies, contributing towards test automation, progressing the team towards devops adoption, advancing of test standards and procedures, pursuing continuous process improvement etc.

What you bring

• 4-year college degree and/or relevant experience as a quality analyst in a complex environment with multiple interfacing applications preferably in the insurance/finance domain.
• Excellent analytical skills and a detail-oriented mindset, with ability to understand complex business requirements, comprehend the interdependencies between systems and understand impact of any proposed changes on the various products and system functionalities.
• Experience working in a cross-functional team environment and having good problem-solving skills and a results-oriented outlook.
• Good communication skills ability to work with various stakeholders, managing concurrent deadlines and multiple priorities.
• Experience with a variety of software QA methodologies, tools and processes.
• Good knowledge of SQL, Excel and Scripting as well as proficiency in other MS Office tools is needed.
• Practical knowledge of LTC insurance products and premiums is ideal.
• Agile experience, experience with insurance systems (specifically insurance premium calculations), and experience with testing applications across different technologies including Java and Mainframe are preferred.
• Development experience and/or experience as a Business Analyst would be beneficial for the role.
• Professional certifications such as Sigma, Agile certifications and other quality related certifications will be a plus.
• Experience with setting up automated and/or performance testing and their related tools will be bonus.

Employee Benefits & Well-Being

Genworth employees make a difference in people’s lives every day. We’re committed to making a difference in our employees’ lives.

• Competitive Compensation & Total Rewards Incentives
• Attractive Mediclaim Coverage
• Annual Leave of up to 25 days
• 12 Sick Leaves
• 12 Casual Leaves
• Additional leaves for marriage, child-birth, adoption, bereavement
• 11 Holidays for all employees
• Utility Allowance to cover for Internet and Phone expenses
• Employment Assistance Program
• Gratuity eligibility
• Business Travel Accident Insurance
• Active employee engagement activities
• Access to LinkedIn Learning in addition to ongoing Genworth Training calendar