Sr. IT QA Analysts

Venerable; Chester (Delaware County); On-site; USD 105,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

VIAC Services Company (Venerable) is seeking a Lead IT QA Analyst to provide leadership across multiple business lines and IT support areas, platforms, and locations.

You will mentor junior team members, coordinate offshore testing efforts, and drive test processes and automation while ensuring alignment with project timelines and policy compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science and minimum 5 years of QA/Testing experience.
• Experience leading test strategy for large-scale projects and presenting to varied audiences.
• Ability to independently lead application development with offshore teams.
• Familiarity with Waterfall and Agile SDLC, SQL scripting, and QA metrics.
• Experience executing an automation road map, UAT coordination, and defect triage.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA across multiple business lines and IT support areas, platforms and locations.
• Coach and mentor junior team members and drive QA excellence.
• Coordinate offshore testing teams to ensure validation tasks meet project timelines.
• Develop and refine QA processes and manage test environments.
• Provide senior-level QA consulting to IT and business groups on testing deliverables.
• Ensure adherence to best practices and organizational policies.

Skills

Test strategy leadership

Offshore coordination

Waterfall/Agile SDLC

SQL scripting

Quality metrics reporting

Defect triage & resolution

Cloud testing (AWS/Azure)

Python for QA automation

Behavior Driven Testing (BDD)

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science

Job description

Title: Lead IT QA Analysts

Employer

VIAC Services Company (Venerable)

Location

West Chester, PA

Job Description

Serve as a QA/Test expert, providing leadership across multiple business lines and IT support areas, platforms, and locations. Demonstrate capability to lead QA peers and provide coaching and mentorship to junior team members. Provide oversight and guidance of offshore testing teams to ensure test validation tasks are successfully completed in accordance with project and release timelines. Develop, provide input and/or modify processes to resolve complex testing and quality process issues to include environment assessments and translation of requirements. Recommend and lead initiatives to improve test processes and development of team members to improve efficiency. Provide senior level consulting services to internal IT and business groups on Quality Assurance and testing deliverables. Ensure team adheres to established best practices and supports all organizational and IT policies and procedures regarding software development and project management. Establish productive, efficient and goal-oriented partnerships with QA peers, other IT disciplines and the business. Accumulate and provide a thorough understanding of business systems, technology, risk, compliance and process requirements, considering relevance of technology to both current and future environments. Understand benefits and drive utilization of common tools and automation.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or closely related field and minimum 5 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience.
• Must have experience working with the following:
• preparing and presenting test strategy to varied audiences
• advising IT teams on increasing efficiency and improving standards
• independently leading application development including collaborating with offshore teams
• Waterfall, Agile SDLC, and SQL scripting
• Quality Metrics management and reporting
• formulating test strategy for large scale projects
• executing on the automation road map
• UAT support and co-ordination to ensure technical specifications meet business requirements
• conducting defect triage meetings and managing defect resolution
• testing in AWS or Azure cloud environments
• QA tools and automation framework development using Python
• and developing Behavior Driven Testing frameworks

Venerable Values

We are Courageous - We think critically, ask "why?" and seek out creative solutions. We are Curious - We take calculated risks, learn from out failures, and challenge traditional ways of thinking. We are Connected - We are connected to each other, our customers and our community.

AI & Interview Policies

Please note: The use of AI tools (such as ChatGPT or similar platforms) during interviews is not permitted without the prior approval of Venerable, as the use of such tools may interfere with company confidentiality, misrepresent a candidate’s skills and experience or otherwise conflict with Venerable’s hiring policies. If you are selected for an interview and a reasonable accommodation is needed, please notify the Venerable Human Resources recruiter aligned to the open position in which you are interviewing for. If Venerable, in its sole discretion, determines that AI is being used during an interview without prior approval, Venerable reserves the right to end the interview early and/or disqualify a candidate.

Company Overview

Founded in 2018, Venerable owns and manages legacy annuity business acquired from other entities. Created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners, Reverence Capital Partners, and Athene Holdings, Ltd. Venerable is a business with well-established, strategic investors, experienced in successfully building and growing insurance businesses with patient, long-term capital. We provide innovative risk transfer solutions to companies with variable annuity blocks who seek to rebuild a secure financial future. We will be the answer for companies focused on long term prosperity. Together, we are visionaries. We embrace change, overcome challenges and act like owners. We inspire, support and empower one another. We thrive on trust, decisiveness and transparency. We are committed to dismantling and eliminating systemic racism and invested in ensuring change is constantly evolving. As an organization, Venerable stands by our core values and consistently works to sustain an equitable environment where diverse perspectives and backgrounds are core to ensuring organizational success. Our Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion program involves colleagues from throughout our organization and is focused on five core topics to drive change - Education and Perspective Seeking, Training, Investments, Volunteerism, and Human Resource Practices. We are also proud members of CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion, participants in supporting events in the communities in which we operate, and contributors to the Society of Black Actuaries and Federation of Iowa Insurers Race and Insurance working group.