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Location

Lehi, UT | United States

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Job description

THIS IS A HYBRID POSITION, 2 DAYS A WEEK IN LEHI, UTAH. NO FULLY REMOTE OPTIONS.

We help the world see new possibilities and inspire change for better tomorrows. Our analytic solutions bridge content, data, and analytics to help business, people, and society become stronger, more resilient, and sustainable.

Job Description

Your primary responsibility will be to lead, maintain and facilitate a highly effective team focused on QA and test automation for application(s) used by insurance market professionals. Working with developers, product managers, leadership, and other key stakeholders to validate that these applications are of the highest quality and fit for release to customers.

You’ll be overseeing a team where each member will be responsible for the following functions:

1. Writing and maintaining automated test cases.
2. Testing and validating the application under test.
3. Developing test plans for features, including automated and manual steps as needed.
4. Researching issues and informing stakeholders on status.
5. Creating innovative technical solutions to validate the application under test.

You will be involved in every stage of the SDLC, from design, to implementation, to final validation of the application. Working with your team and the teams around you to ensure quality standards are met. Shifting left as often as possible to catch quality issues early.

This team owns various software systems, meaning you will have a heavy hand in designing and shaping the architecture and technical strategy of these systems. Collaborating with your team, senior engineers, and other leadership to ensure the systems meet expectations. Raising concerns and advocating for the customer, and the team whenever necessary.

You will facilitate the management of the project through agile ceremonies, creating and prioritizing tasks, and holding your team accountable to execute according to deadlines. You will also maintain and capture quality and performance metrics about your team for reporting to higher level leaders.

Additionally, you will be responsible for hiring, coaching, training, mentoring, performance reviews, resolving interpersonal conflicts, providing regular feedback, daily leadership, and otherwise hands-on leadership to each of your direct reports.

Qualifications

Requirements:

• Finds great personal satisfaction in the professional growth of others.
• Experience managing software teams and projects.
• Solid understanding of designing, developing, and deploying software.
• Solid understanding of both automated and manual testing strategies and employing them in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of software and system architecture.
• Strong knowledge of every phase of the software development lifecycle.
• Eager to work with others. Quick to collaborate and build strong working relationships across the organization.
• Responsive to messages and acts proactively as required.
• Strong ability to synthesize information and present it to higher level leaders clearly and concisely.
• Able to keep up with latest trends in software development and automated testing.
• Is a multiplier for their team and inspires their team to be their best.
• Can provide accurate, timely and critical feedback to their direct reports.
• Can receive critical feedback and use it to grow and improve.
• Willing to make tough decisions and justify them as necessary.
• Can develop long and short-term strategies (roadmaps) and use them to build a plan their team can follow.
• Good presentation skills, effective at communicating information to groups of people.
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience

Strongly Preferred Skills & Experience :

• Experience with one or more programming/scripting languages such as C#, C++, Java, JavaScript.
• Experience building full stack software systems.
• Experience using the cloud as part of development.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Expertise with Quality Assurance techniques and best practices
• Expertise with testing methodologies and technologies (e.g., automated, exploratory, performance, security) 
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills with a commitment to continuous improvement

Additional Information

In 2022, Verisk received Great Place to Work® Certification for our outstanding workplace culture for the sixth year in a row and second-time certification in the UK, Spain, and India. We’re also one of the 38 companies on the UK’s Best Workplaces™ list and one of 18 companies on Spain’s Best Workplaces™ list.

For over fifty years and through innovation, interpretation, and professional insight, Verisk has replaced uncertainty with precision to unlock opportunities that deliver significant and demonstrable impact. From our historic roots in risk assessment, we’ve grown to provide analytic insights that help transform industries focused on some of the world’s most critical areas. Today, the insurance industry relies on Verisk to be, and to make the world, more productive, resilient, and sustainable.

Verisk works in collaboration with our customers and at the intersection of people, data, and advanced technologies. Through proprietary platformed analytics, advanced modeling, and interpretation, we deliver immediate and sustained value to our customers and through them, to the individuals and societies they serve, with greater speed, precision, and scale.

We’re 9,000 people strong, committed to translating big data into big ideas. We help others see new possibilities and empower certainty into big decisions that impact individuals and societies. And we relentlessly and ethically pursue innovation to help move our customers, and the world, toward better tomorrows.

Everyone at Verisk—from our chief executive officer to our newest employee—is guided by The Verisk Way, to Be Remarkable, Add Value, and Innovate.
• Be Remarkable by doing something better each day in service to our customers and each other
• Add Value by delivering immediate and sustained results that drive positive outcomes
• Innovate by redefining what’s possible, embracing challenges, and pushing boundaries

Verisk Businesses

Underwriting Solutions — provides underwriting and rating solutions for auto and property, general liability, and excess and surplus to assess and price risk with speed and precision

Claims Solutions — supports end-to-end claims handling with analytic and automation tools that streamline workflow, improve claims management, and support better customer experiences

Property Estimating Solutions — offers property estimation software and tools for professionals in estimating all phases of building and repair to make day-to-day workflows the most efficient

Extreme Event Solutions — provides risk modeling solutions to help individuals, businesses, and society become more resilient to extreme events.

Specialty Business Solutions — provides an integrated suite of software for full end-to-end management of insurance and reinsurance business, helping companies manage their businesses through efficiency, flexibility, and data governance

Marketing Solutions — delivers data and insights to improve the reach, timing, relevance, and compliance of every consumer engagement

Life Insurance Solutions – offers end-to-end, data insight-driven core capabilities for carriers, distribution, and direct customers across the entire policy lifecycle of life and annuities for both individual and group.

Verisk Maplecroft — provides intelligence on sustainability, resilience, and ESG, helping people, business, and societies become stronger

At Verisk you can build an exciting career with meaningful work; create positive and lasting impact on business; and find the support, coaching, and training you need to advance your career. We have received the Great Place to Work® Certification for the 7th consecutive year. We’ve been recognized by  Forbes as a World’s Best Employer and a Best Employer for Women, testaments to our culture of engagement and the value we place on an inclusive and diverse workforce. Verisk’s Statement on Racial Equity and Diversity supports our commitment to these values and affecting positive and lasting change in the communities where we live and work.

Verisk Analytics is an equal opportunity employer.

All members of the Verisk Analytics family of companies are equal opportunity employers. We consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, veteran's status, age or disability.

Unsolicited resumes sent to Verisk, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Verisk business mailing address, fax machine or email address, or directly to Verisk employees, will be considered Verisk property. Verisk will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.

 

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