Quality Engineering Strategist (Insurance) (Visa independent only)

Job Title: Quality Engineering Strategist Insurance
Reports To: Director of Quality Engineering
Location: Portland, OR Role Summary
The Quality Engineering (QE) Strategist is an enterprise-level leader responsible for defining, socializing, and operationalizing quality strategies across an insurance carrier s ecosystem. This role analyzes the current quality heatmap, identifies systemic improvement areas, and drives adoption through enablement training, workshops, playbooks and flyers, community of practice, and focused hackathons. The strategist ensures quality is treated as a shared, end-to-end responsibility across Product, Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, and Business Operations not just the testing team.
You ll own the roadmap for enterprise quality maturity: enabling endtoend crossplatform testing, contract testing, KPI/SLA measurement, test environment alignment, robust automation practices, and AIenabled accelerators with governance. Deep domain understanding across Customer Onboarding, Underwriting, Policy Administration & Servicing, Claims, Compensation/Commissions, Correspondence/Print, General Ledger, and Actuarial workflows is essential to design quality practices that respect interdependencies and regulatory constraints.
What You ll Do (Roles & Responsibilities) 1) Enterprise QE Strategy & Governance

• Define and maintain the enterprise Quality Strategy, operating model, and guardrails aligned to business objectives and regulatory obligations.
• Build and maintain a living Quality Heatmap across domains, systems, and squads highlighting hotspots, impediments, and prioritized interventions.
• Establish and chair the QE Council: crossfunctional governance with Product, Architecture, DevOps, Security, Data, Compliance, and Business stakeholders.
• Create and enforce standards for definition of ready/done, testability requirements, nonfunctional quality gates, and quality risk signoff practices.
• Institutionalize shiftleft practices: acceptance criteria quality, contract tests, data readiness, accessibility, performance SLOs, security scanning, and compliance earlier in the lifecycle.

2) EndtoEnd & CrossPlatform Quality Enablement (Insurance Value Chain)

• Orchestrate endtoend journey testing spanning onboarding underwriting policy issuance servicing claims compensation correspondence finance/GL actuarial, including batch and downstream data feeds.
• Define integration contracts and drive contract testing adoption to reduce environment coupling and accelerate parallel testing.