QA Architect (Insurance and P&C MUST)

QA Architect (Insurance and P&C MUST)

Hartford,CT- Onsite

12+ Months

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end QA efforts across insurance projects including test planning, execution, defect management, and reporting.
• Strong Architectural experience
• Define and implement test strategies, test plans, and test cases for functional, integration, system, and regression testing.
• Work with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and define appropriate test coverage.
• Manage and mentor QA team members (manual and automation testers), assigning tasks and ensuring quality delivery.
• Set up and maintain test environments and data for insurance platforms and applications.
• Ensure adherence to industry-specific regulations (e.g., HIPAA, IRDAI, GDPR) in testing processes and documentation.
• Collaborate with automation engineers to develop and maintain test automation suites for APIs, UI, and back-end systems.
• Drive defect triage meetings and coordinate with development teams for resolution.
• Track QA metrics such as test coverage, defect density, and release readiness. Advocate for shift-left testing, continuous integration (CI), and continuous testing practices.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
• 12+ years of QA/testing experience, with at least 4+ years in a QA Architect role
• Strong domain experience in insurance (Life, Health, or P&C), with knowledge of key business processes.
• Experience in testing insurance systems such as policy administration, claims, billing, or underwriting platforms.
• Proficient in manual and automated testing practices.
• Hands-on experience with test management tools such as JIRA, Zephyr, TestRail, ALM, etc.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC, STLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies.