Lead QA Engineer

About the team

Magnum is an automated underwriting solution built by Swiss Re and helps 70+ insurers across the globe toautomate the risk assessment in their Life and Health insurance transactions. Magnum is a market-leading softwarefor automated underwriting worldwide, recognized by The Forrester Wave as a leader in Automated LifeInsurance Underwriting Engines. Magnum is catering to a fast-growing base of installed clients with dedicatedteams across the world, from the US to Europe and Asia. Our ambition is to best serve our clients and achievebalanced growth of Magnum products.

About the role

To maintain ground-breaking propositions for Magnum and support the next wave of innovations, we are lookingfor a QA Lead - Product Engineering who passionate about software architecture and is driven to pursueexcellence in delivering premier InsurTech solutions.

As Magnum Technical Architect you will be responsible for product design, you will be combing your designthinking techniques, engineering expertise, networking skills and business domain knowledge to ensure success ofproduct roadmap and retain knowledge in Swiss Re

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to develop QA automation, Performance Agile Implementation Strategy for Magnumquality.
• Evaluate test tools for automation including build verification and IDE plugins and lint programs.
• Come up with high-level or low-level design of Automation FW that covers the test strategy.
• Hands-on with products across the product portfolio, ability to participate in customer-facing activities like demos,feedback meetings etc.
• Write test automation scripts following the defined internal standards.
• Understand the current QA strategy, test plan, tools and technologies for existing Magnum products.
• Manage and groom teams for a high-performance culture and be a champion of Swiss Res core values.
• Provide early visibility and mitigation to technical challenges through the journey.
• Confidently represents product and portfolio, including vision and functional and quality roadmaps, within thecompany and, when necessary, to strategic.
• Code reviews to make sure quality code is delivered.
• RD /POCs of new age requirements.

Your Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Software Development, Testing Automation and DevOps.
• Bachelors degree level or equivalent in computer science or related field, Masters is a plus.
• Strong programming/QA experience and background in Enterprise Java.
• Proficient in Java/J2EE, REST, Junit/TestNG and other test automation frameworks.
• Experience with Front-end web application test automation (Selenium, Web driver, Grid, Cucumber, TestNG, Junit,JMeter, Blaze meter), REST API testing, data validation testing and integration testing.
• Experience working on UI technologies - Angular, ReactJS/DHTML, Karma, cypress, Jest, Mocha, enzyme andJasmine
• Working experience in DevOps environment building CI/CD pipelines through Jenkins.
• Experience in Performance Testing, Penetration Testing Security Testing
• Agile methodology, Git and JIRA.
• Hands-on experience in automation tools and frameworks (WDIO, Coded UI, SoapUI, Postman, Protractor, RestAssured, Test Complete and Py-test).
• Strong experience with performance/scalability testing, compatibility testing
• Strong knowledge of any SQL or No-SQL databases and Queries.
• Proven record of execution of QA strategy and unification of QA process.
• Experience of designing automation solution for complex architecture covering UI, services, files and DBs.
• Must be able to work in front end and back-end QA environments.
• Experience in leading/managing automation team and providing technical solution to the automation deliveryteam
• Good knowledge with Azure DevOps (Repo, Pipeline, CICD), Azure Data Factory.
• Domain knowledge of underwriting process or Life insurance business is a plus