QA LeadSME- Must need Annuity Policy Administration Systems (ALIP OR FAST)

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Job Title :QA Lead/SME-Annuity Policy Administration Systems (ALIP OR FAST OR any other Annuity Policy Admin products)
Remote work is ok with travel needs EST candidates
Location : HolmdelNY or BethlelumPA
Job type : contract

Need H1B Only

Roles & Responsibilities

• Define and own the end-to-end QA strategy and test architecture for ALIP-based Annuity transformation programs.
• Establish quality standards governance models and best practices aligned with Guardian Life enterprise QA and risk frameworks.
• Serve as the onsite QA face-off lead managing stakeholder expectations across business IT actuarial compliance and PMO teams.
• Provide domain leadership for Annuities including Fixed and Variable Annuities riders payouts surrenders fees and annuitization scenarios.
• Validate ALIP product configuration rules transactions and integrations from a quality and business correctness standpoint.
• Own and review Master Test Plans Phase-wise Test Strategies and Release Readiness criteria.
• Govern test execution across SIT E2E Regression UAT support Parallel Runs and Dress Rehearsals.
• Ensure strong requirements-to-test traceability and proactive defect prevention.
• Lead defect triage root cause analysis and risk mitigation for high-severity and cross-system issues.
• Define and drive automation strategy for ALIP focusing on API service-level and regression automation.
• Establish test data management and data validation strategies for complex annuity contracts and financial scenarios.
• Ensure accuracy of financial calculations accounting feeds and downstream reporting validations.
• Lead and mentor offshore QA teams enabling effective handoffs standards adherence and delivery excellence.
• Provide executive-level quality metrics and dashboards highlighting risk coverage defect trends and readiness.
• Support regulatory audits compliance reviews and production readiness assessments with robust QA artifacts.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives including shift-left testing risk-based testing and Agile/Scaled Agile QE adoption.
• Act as a quality transformation partner reducing cost of quality while improving speed reliability and customer outcomes.

Thanks and Regards

Sushil Kaushik

MITS LLC