Associate Principal - Quality Engineering

Role description

Job Title: QA Test Lead

Work Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

Job Summary

Required Role

• QA Lead Test Strategy Execution HandsOn P5M5

Mandatory Skills

• 10 years of QA experience with hands on leadership in large enterprise implementations

• Strong background in System Integration Testing SIT for complex multi system environments

• Solid understanding of life insurance domain processes policy billing claims enrolment distribution

• Experience testing APIs batch jobs file transfers and event driven integrations

• Experience with test automation frameworks and integration testing tools

Role Summary

• The QA Lead needs to provide hands on leadership for all testing activities supporting the implementation of the insurance platform including policy billing claims distribution and related integrations

• This role is responsible for defining and executing the overall test strategy leading System Integration Testing SIT coordinating with vendor integration teams and business stakeholders and ensuring production ready quality across iterative releases

• The role is expected to be deeply hands on contributing directly to test design execution defect triage and automation not purely managerial

Key Responsibilities

• Test Strategy Planning

• Define and own the end to end test strategy for product implementation covering

• Functional testing

• Integration testing

• Data validation

• Regression testing

• Nonfunctional testing performance batch interfaces

• Hands On Test Execution

• Design review and execute test scenarios and test cases for

• API based event driven batch and filebased integrations

• End to end business process flows across upstream and downstream systems

• Perform hands on testing including defect reproduction root cause analysis and validation of fixes

• Coordinate and support dual run and phased rollout testing during coexistence with legacy platforms

• Integration Data Validation

• Lead integration testing across Products and enterprise systems ensuring

• End to end transaction traceability

• Data integrity across source and target systems

• Validation of error handling retries and reconciliation

• Partner closely with Integration Leads and architects to validate interface contracts data mappings and transformation logic

• Test Automation Quality Engineering

• Drive adoption of test automation for regression and integration testing where feasible

• Identify opportunities to leverage AI assisted testing accelerators or QE tools to improve coverage efficiency and defect detection

• Ensure automation aligns with CICD pipelines and supports frequent Product releases

• Defect Release Management

• Own defect lifecycle management including

• Severity classification

• Triage coordination

• Resolution validation

• Release readiness reporting

• Provide clear quality metrics risk assessments and go no go recommendations for releases

• Stakeholder Collaboration

• Serve as the primary QA point of contact for

• Systems integrators

• Business SMEs

• Trustmark IT and architecture teams

• Provide regular status updates quality dashboards and risk visibility to program leadership

Required Qualifications

• 10 years of QA experience with hands on leadership in large enterprise implementations

• Strong background in System Integration Testing SIT for complex multi system environments

• Solid understanding of insurance domain processes policy billing claims enrollment distribution

• Experience testing APIs batch jobs file transfers and event driven integrations

• Proficiency with test management and defect tracking tools eg Jira Aha ALM type tools

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience leading QA in Agile SAFe delivery models

• Experience with test automation frameworks and integration testing tools

• Exposure to AI enabled QA or QE accelerators

• Experience supporting data migration and dual run testing during platform transformation

Role Characteristics

• Hands on not advisory expected to actively test and troubleshoot

• Onsite or hybrid presence during critical testing phases

• Operates with high accountability for quality outcomes and release readiness

Other details

Benefits/perks listed below may vary depending on the nature of your employment with LTIMindtree (“LTIM”):

Benefits and Perks:

• Comprehensive Medical Plan Covering Medical, Dental, Vision

• Short Term and Long-Term Disability Coverage

• 401(k) Plan with Company match

• Life Insurance

• Vacation Time, Sick Leave, Paid Holidays

• Paid Paternity and Maternity Leave

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