Title:
Vice President, Software Quality Assurance
Company:
Everest Global Services, Inc.
Job Category:
Technology
Job Description:
About Everest:
It’s an exciting time for Everest Group, Ltd. (“Everest”)! As we continue on our journey, we see significant opportunity ahead of us to expand our reach, build diversity, and enhance our capabilities in critical markets.
Everest is a leading global reinsurance and insurance provider, operating for nearly 50 years through subsidiaries in the Europe, Bermuda, Canada, Singapore, US, and other territories. Our strengths include extensive product and distribution capabilities, a strong balance sheet, and an innovative culture. Throughout our history, Everest has maintained its discipline and focuses on creating long-term value through underwriting excellence and strong risk and capital management. But the most critical asset in this organization is our people.
Everest is a growth company with $14 Billion of Gross Written Premium offering Property, Casualty and specialty products among others, through its various operating subsidiaries located in key markets around the world. Everest has been a global leader in reinsurance with a broad footprint, deep client relationships, underwriting excellence, responsive service and customized solutions. Our insurance arm draws upon impressive global resources and financial strength to tailor each policy to meet the individual needs of our customers.
About the Role:
Everest Information Technology is currently seeking a Vice President of IT Quality Assurance (QA) to join our Corporate Applications and Services organization. The is a key cross-functional role that is focused on pivotal business-facing capability of ensuring systems quality, reliability, and usability. This role will also be responsible for establishing a quality improvement mindset throughout the IT organization and lead a global staff with heavy representation of vendor resources. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Corporate Applications and Services, who reports to the Everest Group’s Global CIO, this role will play a critical part in leading IT’s transformation to a strong business-oriented function with – a clear strategic vision, recognized delivery excellence, with tight alignment to business’ strategic and operational goals.
A key success responsibility will be seeking and injecting quality in our software development practices and enabling IT to progress on strategic roadmap while Everest is increasing its investment in technology. As a change agent, this is an opportunity to deliver business value and mature Quality Assurance capability and chapter thereby enhancing IT’s service delivery confidence. Key outcomes would include increasing systems and product quality, strengthening Quality Assurance and Quality Engineering capabilities, reducing production issues, and improving user experience by partnering directly with application development teams.
This position will be based in our Warren, NJ Corporate US Headquarters and require on-site presence in accordance with our hybrid policy.
Who You Are
You are a recognized thought leader with a strong blend of strategic and operational leadership, coupled with excellent business and technology acumen. You are a professional who:
What You’ll Do
Everest is growing and IT’s capital portfolio is also growing increasing the application support and maintenance portfolio with systems development globally. You will partner closely with senior leaders in IT in evolving technology vision through following responsibilities:
This role requires forethought, coordination across IT and business, rigorous insight into quality and validation challenges. Ultimately, you will partner with business and IT stakeholders throughout Everest and across all levels of the organization.
You will also create and evolve a Quality Engineering community across application development and data engineering teams globally. This practice will establish consistency, define career paths and enable uplifting of traditional competencies through metrics, playbooks, training, standards, etc.
A critical success factor for this role will be the ability to institutionalize consistent and disciplined quality assurance and engineering blueprint, governance structure and communications.
Key competencies are:
What you’ll need
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Type:
Regular
Time Type:
Full time
Primary Location:
Warren, NJ
Additional Locations:
Everest is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or creed, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, genetics, physical or mental disability, age, marital status, civil union status, family or parental status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. As part of this commitment, Everest will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact Everest Benefits at everestbenefits@everestglobal.com.
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