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QA Architect
Job Location- St. Louis, MO (Day 1- Candidate Needs to work 5 Days at the Client Office)
Long Term
Job Description
Experience
12 15 Years Role Purpose Own the end-to-end quality strategy for the NextGen Annuity MVP across data ingestion, placement, calculation, settlement, UI, APIs, and the AWS-based event-driven architecture.
Key Responsibilities
Define QE strategy, automation architecture, test environments, tools, and quality gates.
Design test coverage across functional, integration, regression, API, data, and settlement validation.
Build traceability from BRDs to test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
Establish golden test packs for annuity products, treaty rules, quota share, calculations, and settlements.
Guide QE engineers across Data Ingestion, UI, Placement, Calculation, and Settlement streams.
Partner with architects, SMEs, DevOps, and product teams on release readiness.
Define CI/CD test integration, reporting, defect governance, and quality metrics.
Required Skills Strong QE architecture and automation leadership.
Insurance/reinsurance or annuity domain experience preferred. API, data validation, event-driven testing, and cloud/AWS testing experience.
Experience with test data strategy, regression design, and reconciliation testing.
Ability to translate business rules and formulas into testable scenarios.