Employer: VIAC Services Company (Venerable)
Location: West Chester, PA
Job Description:
Serve as a QA/Test expert, providing leadership across multiple business lines and IT support areas, platforms, and locations. Demonstrate capability to lead QA peers and provide coaching and mentorship to junior team members. Provide oversight and guidance of offshore testing teams to ensure test validation tasks are successfully completed in accordance with project and release timelines. Develop, provide input and/or modify processes to resolve complex testing and quality process issues to include environment assessments and translation of requirements. Recommend and lead initiatives to improve test processes and development of team members to improve efficiency. Provide senior level consulting services to internal IT and business groups on Quality Assurance and testing deliverables. Ensure team adheres to established best practices and supports all organizational and IT policies and procedures regarding software development and project management. Establish productive, efficient and goal-oriented partnerships with QA peers, other IT disciplines and the business. Accumulate and provide a thorough understanding of business systems, technology, risk, compliance and process requirements, considering relevance of technology to both current and future environments. Understand benefits and drive utilization of common tools and automation.
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or closely related field and minimum 5 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience. Must have experience working with the following: preparing and presenting test strategy to varied audiences; advising IT teams on increasing efficiency and improving standards; independently leading application development including collaborating with offshore teams; Waterfall, Agile SDLC, and SQL scripting; Quality Metrics management and reporting; formulating test strategy for large scale projects; executing on the automation road map; UAT support and co-ordination to ensure technical specifications meet business requirements; conducting defect triage meetings and managing defect resolution; testing in AWS or Azure cloud environments; QA tools and automation framework development using Python; and developing Behavior Driven Testing frameworks.
Venerable Values:
Every position at Venerable has responsibility for living out the company's values as described here:
We are Courageous - We think critically, ask "why?" and seek out creative solutions.
We are Curious - We take calculated risks, learn from out failures, and challenge traditional ways of thinking.
We are Connected - We are connected to each other, our customers and our community.
Please note: The use of AI tools (such as ChatGPT or similar platforms) during interviews is not permitted without the prior approval of Venerable, as the use of such tools may interfere with company confidentiality, misrepresent a candidate’s skills and experience or otherwise conflict with Venerable’s hiring policies. If you are selected for an interview and a reasonable accommodation is needed, please notify the Venerable Human Resources recruiter aligned to the open position in which you are interviewing for.
If Venerable, in its sole discretion, determines that AI is being used during an interview without prior approval, Venerable reserves the right to end the interview early and/or disqualify a candidate.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or closely related field (or foreign equivalent)
- Minimum 5 years of Quality Assurance/Testing experience
- Preparing and presenting test strategy to varied audiences
- Advising IT teams on increasing efficiency and improving standards
- Independently leading application development efforts and collaborating with offshore teams
- Experience with Waterfall and Agile SDLC methodologies
- SQL scripting experience
- Quality metrics management and reporting
- Formulating test strategy for large-scale projects
- Executing on the automation roadmap and automation framework development using Python
- UAT support and coordination to ensure technical specs meet business requirements
- Conducting defect triage meetings and managing defect resolution
- Testing in AWS or Azure cloud environments
- Developing Behavior Driven Testing (BDD) frameworks
What We Do
Venerable is a privately held company with business operations based in West Chester, Pennsylvania and Des Moines, Iowa. Venerable owns and manages legacy variable annuity business acquired from other entities. Created by an investor group led by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC, Crestview Partners, Reverence Capital Partners, and Athene Holdings, Ltd., Venerable is a business with well-established, strategic investors, experienced in successfully building and growing insurance businesses with patient, long-term capital. Growth through acquisition is long storied at Venerable. While we have the nimbleness and flexibility of a start-up, our beginnings are a result of a series of small business ventures by ING Group, who later evolved to Voya Financial, and which began nearly five decades ago. We are led by a highly trusted and experienced team, a significant portion of whom transitioned from Voya at the time of the transaction. With unparalleled knowledge and expertise, the organization remains primed to carry on the tradition of growth. From day one, leaders at Venerable have prioritized the employee experience by focusing on a strong culture. One where employees feel highly engaged, are encouraged to offer feedback often, are supported by a strong management structure, and can collaborate with colleagues without roadblocks. Opportunity awaits for individuals who think critically, ask why, and seek out creative solutions.
