Quality Assurance Associate

Location Designation: Hybrid

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture.

This position primarily involves a hybrid work schedule - working remotely: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday / on site: Wednesday.

We are seeking an experienced Quality Assurance professional to be part of the Portal Testing team within the Group Membership Association Department (GMAD).

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  Executes testing assignments and may provide oversight to the testing team, ensuring the team effectively delivers quality software.
• Works with various team members to optimize testing, enhance efficiency in testing and improve software quality for Portal related releases.
• Tester is responsible for assisting Testing Lead with all end-to-end testing activities.

Key Responsibilities

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  Facilitates testing related development activities, guiding testers, and clarifying requirements with the appropriate team members.
• Strong analytical ability to review Business Requirements and assist with developing test conditions.
• Tracks key testing metrics and ensures regular and consistent communication of progress towards overall testing goals to the Testing manager.
• Ensures that assigned test team members work together effectively and that the testing function is properly integrated across various systems.
• Evaluate defects and attend meeting to discuss testing issues.
• Insure team readiness for upcoming test iterations.
• Follow test activities schedule and meet deadlines for each test iteration.
• Identify risks and mitigation steps.
• Executes tests to compare results with requirements, verifies test requirements, readiness, and identifies defects.
• Close partnership with developers to ensure proper identification of defect.
• Supports Testing Manager to establish project baseline (schedule).

Education / Training

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  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences/Engineering or equivalent education and related software testing training and experience in the financial services industry.

Previous Experience

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  Experience in the insurance industry a plus.
• Analysis of Business Requirements to develop Test Case Scenarios/Scripts.
• Experience working with on and off-shore resources a plus.

Required Skills / Knowledge

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  Possesses knowledge and experience in testing in distributed and web-based environments.
• At least 3 years’ hands on experience in software quality assurance.
• Proven ability to analyze business requirements and translate them into the technical/functional requirements and test scenarios, ability to identify functional dependencies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Advanced knowledge of common software testing procedures and methodologies.
• Strong interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Knowledge of Insurance Products a plus.
• Collaborative but decisive personal style - highly effective communicator and problem solver.
• Demonstrates skills in establishing and executing end to end testing in Agile Methodology.
• Strong system integration testing and/or interface testing experience.
• Some exposure to testing automation.
• Proficiency in testing tools/software, HTML, JAVA, Cucumber, Selenium, JIRA and TestRail.
• Knowledge of API Testing.
• Knowledge and experience on infrastructure changes is a big plus.
• Strong team player.

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Salary range: $67,500-$102,500

Overtime eligible: Exempt

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes

Sales bonus eligible: No

Click here to learn more about our benefits. Starting salary is dependent upon several factors including previous work experience, specific industry experience, and/or skills required.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. We invite you to bring your talents to New York Life, so we can continue to help families and businesses “Be Good At Life.” To learn more, please visit LinkedIn, our Newsroom and the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

Job Requisition ID: 88824