Test Manager - Insurance/Finance

TEST MANAGER - INSURANCE/FINANCE

Resolution Life is a specialist U.S. life insurance company. Our mission is to build a substantial, diversified and lasting life insurance company. With our team of highly experienced industry professionals, Resolution Life is focused on delivering high-quality customer service and building enduring relationships with our policyholders. We are growing our business through the acquisition and management of in-force portfolios, meaning there are many new and exciting opportunities, including this Test Execution Coordinator role.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

The purpose of this role is to oversee the testing of our migration partners, and directly co-ordinate the in-house testing for the life migration project.

KEY SKILLS

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Test Execution - greater than 5 years' experience required
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Test Planning - greater than 5 years' experience required
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Financial systems experience - greater than 3 years experience desired
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Strong written and oral communication skills - 5 - 7 years' experience required
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Planning, managing and organizing - 5- 7 years' experience required
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MS Office Suite - 3-5 years' experience required

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

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Produce a simple test strategy that balances the needs of thorough testing against the time constraints and resource availability.
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Produce schedules/plans for each in-house testing area, to be agreed with the individuals testing, monitor and report against the plans.
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Ability to execute test cases to verify results and communicate the testing results.
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Work with key Finance, Actuarial and Data Warehouse users to plan and execute the balancing/validation across interfaces and reports.
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Work with Finance, Actuarial and Data Warehouse team to develop test plans and define conditions that will allow Resolution Life to sign off in acceptance of the file format and data prior to go live.
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Work closely with testing users to ensure the criteria identified and test plan once executed will adequately test conditions for signoff.
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Summarize and report testing results and track and manage condition failures with se2 for resolution.
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Identify testing failures that are show stoppers versus can go live and resolve.
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Determine key Testing conditions for Financial Reporting to ensure accuracy.
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Develop a testing practice, templates and reporting for future test execution.
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Co-ordinate the re-running of failed test conditions, keeping logs of progress (failed and passed, deferred and executed).
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Keep a track of defects/bugs and report these to the partners and stream leads.
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Plan and coordinate the receipt of migration partner files for testing. This includes, QA, BET and Pilot Testing.
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Assume lead role for communications with migration partner relating to testing results and resolution of failures.

STAKEHOLDERS AND RELATIONSHIPS

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Work closely with the Migrations Project Managers (both in-house and with our partners).
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Work closely with the Finance, Actuarial, Systems, and Investments work stream leads in coordinating their testing.
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Build a relationship with the Partner Test Leads to track progress.
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Work with the PMO Manager to ensure all essential information is communicated across the program.
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Build a relationship with key players of Allstate who are providing the data and functional specs of the books of business.

HOW TO APPLY

Please click on the apply button to send your resume and cover letter to Mark Simons.

ROSEMONT, IL

CONTRACT ROLE (SIX MONTHS) - UP TO $400 PER DAY