FBS Cloud Application Test Lead

Our Client is one of the United States’ largest insurers, providing a wide range of insurance and financial services products with gross written premiums well over US$25 Billion (P&C). They proudly serve more than 10 million U.S. households with more than 19 million individual policies across all 50 states through the efforts of over 48,000 exclusive and independent agents and nearly 18,500 employees. Finally, our Client is part of one the largest Insurance Groups in the world.

We are seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and resourceful Testing Lead to join our team in building a next-generation digital platform for the life insurance industry. This platform integrates multiple SaaS solutions using modern cloud-native architectures and APIs, and your leadership will be critical in ensuring its quality, performance, and reliability.

You’ll be joining a cross-functional, agile team of engineers, architects, and product leaders who are passionate about transforming the life insurance experience. Our team is responsible for delivering a secure, scalable, and intuitive digital platform that connects multiple SaaS systems and services through modern APIs.

We value:

• Collaboration: We work closely across disciplines and geographies.

• Innovation: We embrace new tools and techniques to improve quality and speed.
• Accountability: We own our work and take pride in delivering excellence.
• Growth: We support each other’s development and celebrate wins together.

As our Testing Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping the quality culture of the team and ensuring our platform meets the highest standards of performance and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end testing strategy for a complex, API and Data driven, cloud-native platform.
• Design and implement robust regression, functional, and performance testing frameworks.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and DevOps to ensure test coverage across all integration points.
• Analyzes system and business requirement for testability by utilizing advanced testing tools.
• Work closely with cross functional development, testing and product teams, across multiple geographies, to support the testing practice and program execution.
• Develops, documents, executes and maintains test cases and test data, based on business and system requirements.
• Drive test automation initiatives and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Identify, document, and track defects, and ensure timely resolution.
• Mentor and guide junior QA engineers.
• Champion quality best practices and continuous improvement across the SDLC, especially documenting testing standards and processes.
• Work in a SAFe agile team, participating in Agile ceremonies such as PI planning, sprint reviews, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Reports the status of the test plan execution through defect logs and defect tracking system.
• Conducts audits to ensure test planning and execution adheres to standards and guidelines. Defines advanced test plans needed to achieve appropriate level of coverage.
• Plans work via the preparation for and participation in Program Increment (PI) Planning and Sprint Planning, which includes developing and committing to Team PI Objectives and Sprint goals.
• Demonstrate working code to Product and Business Owners and supports the Product Owner in the execution of the iteration and PI System Demos.

• 7+ years of experience in software testing with cloud / applications environment, with at least 2 years in a lead role.
• Bs in Computer Sciences, Technology, Engineering or similar
• Full English Fluency
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, microservices, and RESTful APIs.
• SAFe Practitioner or SAFe Agilist Certification within 180 days of hire required.
• SAFe DevOps Certification preferred.
• Certification around test frameworks highly desired.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services domain is a plus.

Competencies

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex integration issues.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple teams to quickly identify, fix, and address root causes.
• Proficiency in using data and automation to improve application quality.
• Strong documentation skills to ensure practices are well-documented and clear.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.

Software / Tools

• Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Postman, JMeter). (MUST)
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Familiarity with other cloud services (e.g., AWS S3, Lamda, MuleSoft, Cloudhub), would be highly desired.

This position comes with competitive compensation and benefits package:

1. Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
2. Comprehensive benefits package
3. Career development and training opportunities
4. Flexible work arrangements (remote and/or office-based)
5. Dynamic and inclusive work culture within a globally renowned group
6. Private Health Insurance
7. Pension Plan
8. Paid Time Off
9. Training & Development

About Capgemini

Capgemini is a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group €22.5 billion in revenues in 2023.