Job Title: QA Manager (Insurance Domain)
Job Overview
We are seeking an experienced QA Manager with strong domain expertise in insurance (Life, General, or Health) to lead end-to-end quality assurance initiatives. The ideal candidate will be responsible for driving test strategy, managing QA teams, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders across complex projects.
Required Skills & Experience
- Minimum 3+ years of experience in the insurance domain with proven experience in a QA Manager role.
- Strong expertise in end-to-end test management, including planning, execution, and governance across SIT, UAT, and regression cycles
- Proven experience in defect lifecycle management, including triage, root cause analysis, and resolution tracking across multiple teams and vendors.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage business users, IT teams, vendors, and senior leadership.
- Hands-on experience in risk assessment, quality governance, and publishing test metrics, dashboards, and release readiness reports.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, STLC, and Agile /waterfall delivery models.
- Experience in resource planning, effort estimation, and managing QA for large-scale or complex programs.
- Ability to define and enforce test strategies, standards, and best practices.
- Proven leadership in managing cross-functional and distributed QA teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and implement test strategies and test plans aligned with project objectives.
- Drive quality metrics, and reporting dashboards for leadership visibility.
- Estimate testing and retesting efforts, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Oversee end-to-end test execution across multiple projects.
- Manage the defect lifecycle process, including tracking, prioritization, and resolution.
- Monitor defect leakage trends and perform root cause analysis.
- Ensure timely defect resolution in collaboration with development teams.
- Manage third-party vendors and ensure adherence to SLAs.
- Communicate risks, issues, and mitigation plans to stakeholders and leadership.
- Lead User Acceptance Testing (UAT) coordination and governance.
- Ensure business users are well-prepared with test scenarios, test cases, and test data.
- Manage and govern change requests during UAT.
- Ensure quality signoffs meet defined standards before release.
- Lead, mentor, and develop QA team members.
- Identify project risks related to quality, timelines, and dependencies.
- Define mitigation and contingency plans, and escalate issues to Senior QA Manager / Project Manager when required.
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor / Master Degree
- Experience in insurance systems, policy, or claims platforms.
- Certification in ISTQB / Agile / PMP / Prince 2 (preferred but not mandatory)
Pay: RM8,000.00 - RM12,000.00 per month
Benefits:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Damansara: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- How many years of experience do you have specifically in insurance-related QA roles?
- Have you been involved in any end-to-end insurance project implementations?
- Have you led end-to-end SIT & UAT cycles?
- Are you comfortable managing multiple stakeholders and vendors?
- Do you have any certifications (ISTQB / Agile / PMP / Prince2)?
- Have you managed a QA team before?
Experience:
- QA Manager: 3 years (Required)
Work Location: In person