Position Summary
The QA Manager will be responsible for leading the daily activities of the QA team. You will guide the team to create test scripts, executing functional, regression, and stress testing; managing issues in TFS/Jira; and managing release cycle requests in QA.
About Us
Join a team where we encourage creativity and innovation, champion teamwork and are committed to being the best. In this environment we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products.
Hexure, started with a simple goal: transform the insurance and financial services industry through powerful end-to-end sales solutions. For more than 25 years, carriers and distributors have depended on our commitment to innovation, speed to market delivery and deep domain expertise. Our solutions have been implemented within industry-leading insurance carriers and distribution firms. And our track record of empowering client success speaks for itself.
Together as a team, we strive to provide our clients best-in-class solutions that transform business processes and empower sales across all insurance, retirement and investment products. We endeavor to cultivate a culture of inclusion for all employees that respects their individual strengths, views, and experiences. We believe that our differences enable us to be a better team – one that makes better decisions, drives innovation, and delivers better solutions for our clients.
Why you’ll love working here:
- Generous benefit packages - We offer our employees competitive health insurance options, including medical, dental, and vision plans, as well as long term and short-term disability insurance.
- Pre-tax savings programs including flexible spending accounts, and a 401K that is competitively matched!
- Lifestyle Spending Account. This provides an employee the flexibility to spend benefit dollars on the things that matter most to them.
- Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO). Work-life balance is a key part of our company culture here at Hexure, and we know that our employees do their best work when they can take the time they need to rest and recharge.
- Office Closures – Inclusion and Diversity are integral to enhancing our culture. In support of this, we offer 6 companywide office closures and encourage all employees to use flexible PTO to celebrate religious or cultural holidays, employee birthdays, or other state or federal holidays that bring personal meaning.
- In addition to all the standard PTO options, Hexure proudly offers a generous and progressive paid Modern Family Leave policy.
- Professional Development - Hexure supports you and your professional development with a LinkedIn learning account.
- We also have employee anniversary perks, health, and wellness programs, and much more! Most benefits are effective on date of hire!
Primary Responsibilities Include:
- Partner with development and engineering management to understand requirements and ensure testability of those designs.
- Develop, modify, and execute test strategies and plans across both automated and manual scenarios.
- Analyze new software functionality and features to continually adjust and refine the full test suite.
- Define, manage, and execute multiple forms of testing across our ecosystem: continuous, regression, end to end, smoke, performance, and integration with partners.
- Continually validate testing tools and processes.
- Develop work schedules and resource plans.
Education and Experience:
- Computer Science degree or equivalent engineering degree with at least 4 years of industry experience.
- Experience leading teams in end-to-end software testing in both Agile and Waterfall environments.
- Experience with writing and executing both back-end and front-end automation scripts.
- Ability to communicate issues, root cause and resolutions to both technical and non-technical levels of the organization.
- Excellent cross-functional communication and influencing skills.
- High comfort level working in a continually changing and dynamic environment.
Core Competencies:
- Interpersonal Skills: Now more than ever, the ability to build relationships with team members and clients is pivotal to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates who can communicate effectively and help cultivate an agile environment of collaboration and inclusion.
- Provides clear instructions and direction to others.
- Is able to both actively listen and effectively understand another’s viewpoint.
- Helps others understand situations by communicating business context.
- Encourages co-operation between all members of the team.
- Identifies and removes barriers to team performance.
- Helps people to resolve conflict.
- Identifies ways for further collaboration across teams.
- Seeks team members’ input and expertise; facilitates open and interactive discussion of matters affecting the team.
- Personal Capabilities: We believe that the way people manage themselves and their relationships with others in the workplace is critical to the success of our organization. We are looking for candidates that effectively put their knowledge, values, and skills into practice.
- Is able to ask effective questions and collect facts from multiple sources in order to solve problems.
- Is able to effectively identify and analyze problems and propose solutions.
- Effectively manages day-to-day issues and problems without intervention.
- Focus on Results: As a company that values innovation, we are looking for candidates who will help drive efforts to build commitment for individual and team objectives, as well as anticipate and respond to issues and opportunities that could affect the organization.
- Builds commitment in others for their individual and team objectives.
- Communicates expectations clearly.
- Promotes a strong sense of urgency for reaching goals.
- Follows through on commitments to ensure they are successfully completed and the goals achieved.
- Follows through on commitments to ensure goal achievement.
- Customer Advocacy: Our purpose is to empower our clients to deliver customer-centric sales experiences, accelerate speed to market, improve in-good-order sales and meet regulatory requirements. This requires a focus on our customer‘s satisfaction. We are looking for candidates who can understand the needs and concerns of our clients and address them quickly and expertly.
- Is able to ask effective questions and collect facts from multiple sources in order to solve problems.
- Is able to effectively identify and analyze problems and propose solutions.
- Effectively manages day-to-day issues and problems without intervention.
Where We See This Role Going:
We are committed to being a driving force in the innovation of the insurance market and that means that we help our employees stay on top of current trends and technologies, and progress within our company. This position can move into the following roles.
Expected hours of Work:
This is a full-time position with regular office hours from Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required to support deployments and other work demands.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee incumbent in this position. Employee will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties as requested.
A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the employee must possess the skills, aptitudes and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills or abilities.
This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise, other than an "at will" relationship.
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