Work location:
Charlotte, nc (fully remote): to protect the health and safety of our employees, our offices are closedWhen our offices reopen, the organization will be moving to a hybrid work model.
Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion:
At brighthouse financial, we’re fostering a culture where diverse backgrounds and experiences are celebrated, and different ideas are heard and respectedWe believe that by creating an inclusive workplace, we’re better able to attract and retain our talent, provide valuable solutions that meet the needs of our advisors and their clients, and deliver on our mission of helping more people achieve financial security.
How this role contributes to brighthouse financial:
Brighthouse financials’ qmo test engineer is a key role within the technology organization, managing the complex interrelationships of a broad portfolio of 3rd party systems integrators and platforms ensuring successful deployment and ongoing support of complex designs and multi-faceted platform interoperationsThe individual is accountable for the creation and successful execution of testing strategies enabling business, technology and applications across brighthouse, and our many saas providers/systems integrators in both agile and waterfall methodsThis role also will oversee and support test engineering strategies and execution of tsa mandated programs working closely with our test execution vendor (tev), and primarily with our client solutions organizationTest engineer will need to build relationships and partner effectively and efficiently with many team members within client solutions organization as well as other stakeholders to enable testing and oversee an integrated strategy across many programs that are in flightThis position is accountable to ensure the quality of deployable components in productionThis role will be supporting the qa and testing for all applications managed by brighthouse that service and administer our financial products, clients, and third-party agents.
The test engineer will work closely with internal brighthouse it solution owners, business analysts and systems analysts to ensure the traceability of architecture, design, integration and testing ensuring scalable interoperability within all types of delivery frameworks (agile, iterative, waterfall)This position requires a deep understanding of key it disciplines (architecture, bsa, data integration, service management, vendor management) and must have a keen ability to work within a matrix of technical leaders, business leaders and stakeholders.
Key responsibilities:
Manage and execute testing activities to support programs that will include the launch of new life and annuity products as well as modifications of existing products.
Manage and execute testing activities in support of various platform conversions for legacy business with third party administrators.
Coordinate uat across key stakeholders including business partners
Able to get into the details of an issue, doesn’t shy away from performing issue analysis
Manage change, understanding the potential impact to stakeholders and influence approach and timeline to minimize business disruptionDevelop mitigation plans to resolve issues and risksEnsure implementations achieve business and technology requirements.
Oversee all aspects of quality assurance including establishing metrics, applying industry best practices, and developing new tools and processes to ensure quality goals are met.
Act as key point of contact for all qa aspects of releases, providing qa services and coordinating qa resources internally and externally
Essential business experience and technical skills:
3+ years of experience in a technology organization (preferably in financial services industry) with a focus on test engineering
Experience in developing test strategy to support transformation programs
Knowledge of insurance/annuity products and core components is a plus - (illustrations, underwriting, correspondence, administration, etc.)
Background in these applications is a plus – (ipipeline, munich re, dtcc clearing house, crm salesforce, third party admins, third party comp, insurance tech)
Understanding of integration testing with third party vendors and centralized data model that come with a true saas it model
Experienced in test automation and building automation framework
Deep understanding and prior experience of software development and qa life cycle processes (including test planning, test case design, execution, defect tracking and reporting)
Knowledge of tools such as hp alm/quality center, jira, ca agile central/rally
Effective communication skills to collaborate with system integration teams, it solution owners, and other stakeholders
Experience in testing of etl components, web services and big data solutions will be a plus
Compensation and benefits:
Compensation: base salary ranging from $68,000.00 to $85,000.00 plus competitive performance-based incentives determined by company and individual results
Time off: minimum of 20 days of paid time off and 13 paid company holidays per full calendar year, plus paid volunteer time
Financial benefits: 401(k) savings plan with up to a 6% annual match and 3% annual company nondiscretionary contribution of eligible compensation, and employee stock purchase plan
Family focus: up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents, back-up care program, dependent care flexible spending account, and adoption and surrogacy assistance
H ealth and welfare: competitive medical, vision and dental plans, plus tax-free health savings accounts with potential company contributions up to $1,000 per family
Wellness programs: wellness incentive platform, employee assistance program, financial counseling services, fitness center discounts and more
Life & disability benefits: company-paid basic life insurance and short-term disability
Travel:
None
Number of openings:
2
