Magnum QA Architect

**About Swiss Re** Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise, we create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 14,000 employees across the world. Our success depends on our ability to build an inclusive culture encouraging fresh perspectives and innovative thinking. We embrace a workplace where everyone has equal opportunities to thrive and develop professionally regardless of their age, gender, race, ethnicity, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, skillset, thought or other characteristics. In our inclusive and flexible environment everyone can bring their authentic selves to work. **About the team** The Swiss Re group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. Magnum is an automated underwriting solution built by Swiss Re and helps 70+ insurers across the globe to automate the risk assessment in their Life and Health insurance transactions. Magnum is a market-leading software for automated underwriting worldwide, recognized by The Forrester Wave as a leader in Automated Life Insurance Underwriting Engines. Magnum is catering to a fast growing base of installed clients with dedicated teams across the world, from the US to Europe and Asia. Our ambition is to best serve our clients and achieve balanced growth of Magnum products. This position is for the whole Magnum ecosystem as we strive to redefine the end-to-end testing strategy. **About the role**: To maintain ground-breaking propositions for Magnum and support the next wave of innovations, we are looking for a Lead Quality Assurance who has a strong curiosity to get to the heart of the workings of our digital solutions and who is driven to question the status quo to take QA to the next level. **Your main responsibilities are**: - Defines QA strategy, approach and execution - Lead a test organization including manual testing, automated testing, performance testing and DevOps - Continually improve Quality Assurance testing processes, policies, standards and best practices across all testing phases - Coordinate, plan, and execute testing activities during all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle - Build a sustainable QA culture within the Magnum ecosystem, especially regarding automated testing - Help to identify priorities, working closely with product and engineering teams - Design and install an optimized and reusable framework to track QA actions, quality, and results **Requirements**: - 12+ years of experience as a QA engineer or manager, working on digital solutions preferably SaaS in a Product company - Broad technical knowledge and hands-on experience in test methodologies, automation frameworks, performance testing tools etc. - Outstanding technical skills, both functional and non-functional, manual and automation in a CI/CD environment - Proven track record in designing, implementing, executing and supervising an end-to-end testing approach - Experience in managing and scaling a multi-disciplined QA team - A "Reverse-engineering" mindset able to proactively transform the QA approach - Strong analytical skills and capability to interpret and challenge requirements and solutions design - Experience in QA mentorship and leading by example an international and multi-cultural technical team spread across different locations - A Personal attitude that is in sync with the following values: proactivity, ownership, continuous improvement - Proficient in English (written and spoken). We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.