Overview
Legal & General America (LGA) is a nationally recognized market leader in the life insurance industry. By joining LGA, you become part of a team that works diligently each day to protect American families. We are a collaborative organization that’s built on trust, creativity, and taking initiative. Our work is part of a larger cause. We help close the life insurance gap so more American families can be protected financially. We value each member of our community and provide excellent benefits, opportunities for personal growth, and a chance to make a difference. Our associates’ passion and dedication, as well as our career development opportunities, outstanding benefits, focus on wellbeing, and community support contribute to our exceptional workplace culture!
Legal & General America believes diversity makes us better. For us, it is not just about being an Equal Opportunity Employer, which we are proud to be. It is about inviting different experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives to our work; and making conscious efforts to reach out to candidates who can bring different ideas and perspectives to what we do and create together. We invite passionate people, committed to excellence, to join our team. We invite you to make our team richer and better. Visit our careers page here to learn more about us and why we’ve been a certified Great Place to Work for the past seven years in a row.
Legal and General America is looking for a Senior QA Analyst to provide testing and assurance support for a leading technology platform in the financial services industry.
The Senior QA Analyst will be responsible for testing software solutions and ensuring a smooth implementation of enhancements that meet the needs of our business partners. The Senior QA Analyst will contribute to, and improve, the testing principles and frameworks that have been put into place at LGA. The Senior QA Analyst will provide both functional assurance and have a comprehensive understanding of the business areas within which the software is used. They will strive to not only identify standard defects, but also find potential business process gaps during the solutioning and design phases.
Responsibilities
- Drive test execution within targeted timelines through a mastery of test execution strategies, including modern techniques such as Agile, Shift Left, CI/CD and BDD.
- Develop and implement test plans as necessary to meet testing objectives.
- Independently execute testing across multiple, complex assignments to ensure software changes meet business needs without adverse impacts.
- Gain a working understanding of Legal and General America as a business and contribute to cohesive, end-to-end experiences for customers.
- Mentor and coach less experienced QA Analysts in testing methodologies, practices, techniques and provide input on career development.
- Drive test efforts ensuring consistent test execution, defect management and traceability.
- Provide and review testing estimation and prioritization.
- Collaborate with business, development, and testing leaders to develop and build consensus on test plans, timelines, resources and technology (including Automation) needs.
- Develop relationships across business and technology stakeholders to drive test execution, resolve issues and ensure effective communication and delivery.
- Keep up to date with industry trends and apply to projects as appropriate.
- Leverage metrics and KPI’s to report on testing progress, release quality and to surface potential issues faster.
- Participate in the change control process and ensure the integrity and quality of the release.
Qualifications
Education
- BS or MS degree in Computer Science or Engineering OR equivalent years of work experience.
Experience/Knowledge
- 6+ years’ experience in Software Quality Assurance including writing, reviewing, and executing test plans and test scripts.
- 2+ years of experience coaching, mentoring and leading testing resources.
- Experience with life insurance business processes and transactions a plus.
- Experience in manual software testing including writing, reviewing, and executing test plans and test scripts.
- Testing experience in Microsoft Windows environments and web-based experiences.
- Knowledge of complete Software Development Life Cycle
- Intermediate level of hands-on SQL / Relational DB knowledge
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with excellent interpersonal communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to communicate technical details clearly across organizational boundaries.
- Cloud and services experience, with Azure cloud experience highly desirable.
- Experience with Agile and interactive development processes.
Interpersonal Skills
- Desire to learn, embrace challenges, see failures as essential to mastery, learn from criticism and find lessons and inspiration in the success of others.
- Help to create a diverse and inclusive culture where everyone can bring their full and authentic self, all voices are heard, and where we do our best work as a result.
- Confident and articulate in expressing ideas to a mixed audience with varying views and challenges.
- A sense of personal ownership and accountability is required, together with the ability to develop and deliver to deadlines.
- Self-motivated with a strong drive for reaching across teams and organizations to make progress collaboratively.
Technical Skills
- Professional experience working with C#, .NET Core, .NET Frameworks
- Professional experience working with Web Services, Micro-services, SQL, Entity Framework, HTML, HTML5, CSS, Responsive Design
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, and TCM such as Zephyr and Test Rail
- Knowledge of version control techniques using Git or BitBucket
- Experience with application deployment in the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Experience with performance / security testing is a significant value add.
- Experience working with legacy technologies (Delphi, COBOL) is a significant value add
- Test Automation experience / knowledge of methodologies significant value add
Recommended Certifications
- Azure and ISTQB Foundations or Higher
What’s in it for you?
The expected hiring compensation range for this position is $101,300 – $139,250 annually.
The total compensation package for this position may include other elements, such as a sign-on bonus, long term incentives, and annual bonuses. This role is eligible to participate in the Legal & General America Annual Incentive Plan. The current target payment for the position is 20% of base salary, modified for corporate and individual performance. Bonuses are pro-rated based on start date. This role has 20 vacation days and 10 sick days that are accrued on a bi-weekly basis. Employees also have 9 paid holidays throughout the calendar year.
We have a competitive compensation and benefits package focused on your overall wellbeing. Employee benefits include health, life, and dental insurance; 401K with company match up to 6% as well as a pension package; generous time off; and wellbeing initiatives throughout the year (we like doing fun stuff). We’re big on professional development and we’ll support and mentor you in your career progression and expect you to help us pay it forward by helping us develop tomorrow’s leaders and growth-focused professionals. We value our teams and our communities and believe in giving back. Enjoy time off to volunteer for those causes that matter most to you!
If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors. The Company reserves the right to change benefits plans at any time.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.