Zurich North America is looking for a Project Test and Quality Manager to lead the test strategy, planning, and execution for multiple applications and releases throughout their software development lifecycle, ensuring quality and alignment across project stakeholders.
Requirements
- Experience with setting up new projects as a test lead, including development of test strategy, staffing strategy and plan, project plan for testing, overall test execution plan, and regular status reporting
- Experience with creating and executing test cases in an agile / scrum delivery model
- Experience with driving and enhancing test automation capabilities
- Experience with leading team members across multiple organizations through the test phases of projects, including regression testing and user acceptance testing
- As needed, perform requirements analysis, author functional test cases, and execute test cases while understanding the testable software requirements
Responsibilities
- Driving creation of test strategies and test plans for medium to large projects
- Test management, communication, metrics, and status reporting, including identification of risks and escalation of issues to the project team and management
- Execution of test delivery strategy (sprint testing, SIT, UAT) and reporting of test execution status, including progress and defect trends
- Onshore and Offshore resource coordination and collaboration
- Defect Management approach and execution, including logging and reporting of defects and adherence to Defect Management by all project / scrum team members
- Representing test team progress and concerns in daily scrum meetings, including scrum of scrum meetings, and removing impediments faced by project team members using agile methodology tools where applicable (e.g., scrum of scrum, retrospectives, etc.).
- Recommend scope of work for automation testing and ensure plans are in place to implement and execute automation test scripts while coordinating with Test Automation strategy leaders
Other
- Partner with your manager to set a flexible work schedule that supports you, our customers, and our brokers and agents.
- This role will require you to be visible in the marketplace to meet with our agents and brokers and be in the office three days per week.
- Ability to multi-task
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Excellent organizational and planning skills
