Position: Quality Engineering (QE) Lead – Personal Insurance
Location: Hybrid, 2x per week in office (Toronto, Downtown)
Structure: Contract 6 months to start
Pay: $65.00 - $70.00 p/h inc.
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Our client is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering (QE) Lead to support several strategic Personal Insurance initiatives. This individual will serve as the client's Quality Engineering representative, leading end-to-end testing activities while coordinating closely with internal stakeholders and third-party delivery partners.
The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the overall testing strategy, planning, execution, reporting, and governance while ensuring vendor-delivered testing activities meet quality expectations, timelines, and business objectives.
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Lead the overall Quality Engineering and testing effort across Personal Insurance initiatives.
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Develop and execute comprehensive test strategies, test plans, and testing schedules.
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Coordinate and oversee system, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing activities.
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Act as the primary Quality Engineering representative for the client, collaborating with business, technology, and vendor teams.
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Manage vendor testing deliverables, ensuring quality standards, timelines, and project objectives are achieved.
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Track testing progress, risks, defects, and overall quality metrics while providing regular status reporting to project stakeholders.
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Facilitate defect triage sessions and drive issue resolution with internal and external teams.
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Ensure testing activities align with project governance, quality standards, and release schedules.
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Identify testing risks early and develop mitigation strategies.
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Foster strong communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.
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8+ years of Quality Assurance / Quality Engineering experience with progressively senior responsibilities.
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Proven experience leading end-to-end testing activities on enterprise software implementations.
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Strong experience within the Property & Casualty (P&C) Insurance industry, particularly Personal Insurance.
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Hands-on experience working with Guidewire (Guidewire InsuranceSuite) implementations or enhancements.
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Experience managing and coordinating third-party vendor testing teams and deliverables.
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Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, defect management, and quality governance.
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Experience developing test strategies, test plans, execution reporting, and quality dashboards.
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Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills with the ability to influence across business and technology teams.
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Experience working in Agile and hybrid delivery environments.
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Previous experience acting as a QE/Test Lead on Guidewire transformation programs.
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Experience with test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, ALM, or similar platforms.
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Exposure to automation testing practices and quality engineering best practices.
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ISTQB or other QA certifications are considered an asset.
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CorGTA is an equal opportunity employer, please apply with an updated resume and ensure the required skills you are able to speak to for this position are included.
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