Sr. IT QA Analysts

Venerable; Glenloch (PA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

VIAC Services Company (Venerable) in West Chester, PA, seeks a Lead IT QA Analyst to provide leadership across multiple business lines and IT support areas, guiding QA peers and mentoring junior members. You will coordinate offshore testing teams to ensure test validation tasks align with project timelines and release goals.

Lead initiatives to improve test processes, develop automation frameworks in Python, and drive quality metrics across environments including AWS/Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or closely related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience.
• Experience presenting test strategies to varied audiences.
• Advising IT teams on increasing efficiency and improving standards.
• Independently leading application development with offshore collaboration.
• Experience with Waterfall and Agile SDLC, and SQL scripting.
• Quality metrics management and reporting.
• Formulating test strategy for large scale projects.
• Executing on the automation roadmap.
• UAT support and coordination to ensure technical specs 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.
• Developing Behavior Driven Testing frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide QA/Test leadership across multiple lines and IT support areas.
• Coaching and mentorship for junior team members.
• Oversee offshore testing teams to meet project timelines.
• Develop or modify processes to resolve complex testing issues.
• Recommend and lead test process improvements for efficiency.
• Provide senior QA consulting to IT and business groups.
• Ensure adherence to QA best practices and IT policies.
• Understand business systems and risk considerations for testing.
• Promote use of common tools and automation across teams.

Skills

Test strategy

Leadership

Offshore collaboration

SDLC methodologies

SQL scripting

Quality metrics

Automation roadmap

UAT coordination

Defect management

Cloud testing

Python automation

BDD frameworks

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/Computer Engineering

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

Title: Lead IT QA Analysts Employer: VIAC Services Company (Venerable) Location: West Chester, PA

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:

It is required that you hold a Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or closely related field and have a minimum of 5 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience.

• 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
• 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.

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.

Competitive Compensation, Benefits, Current Hybrid Work Schedule and a Generous PTO Package!

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.