Director of Business Analysis & Quality Engineering

Overview

FMNE Insurance is seeking a Director of Business Analysis & Quality Engineering to join our growing IT
Department - an individual who is a proactive, intuitive developer who’s ready to contribute immediately and grow with us in Lincoln, NE. With a competitive salary and excellent benefits package, expanding beyond health insurance and a generous 401K, we offer an employee wellness program, a hybrid work-from-home policy for eligible employees, pension plan, and so much more. This employer will not sponsor any work visas for any applicant of this position.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Please supply a cover letter and resume. Applications with cover letters will be given preferential review.

Be a part of a rock-solid company with deep Midwest roots. If our core values resonate with you, we encourage you to apply to be a Director of Business Analysis & Quality Engineering at FMNE today!

Core values include:
Integrity - Service - Excellence - Stability - Strength - Respect - Teamwork

Director of Business Analysis & Quality Engineering is a senior IT leader responsible for establishing clarity, quality, and delivery discipline across the organization’s technology initiatives. This position provides strategic direction, standards, and accountability for business analysis and quality assurance practices, ensuring that solutions delivered by agile teams are well-defined, well-tested, and aligned with business intent. This role is accountable for building a modern, outcome-oriented BA and QA capability that operates within agile delivery teams, not as a detached control function.

This includes deliberate investment in skills development, coaching, and professional growth to ensure the organization’s analysis and quality capabilities mature alongside its delivery model. The Director ensures that the organization has the practices, standards, and capabilities to translate business intent into clear, actionable work, that quality is engineered into solutions from the outset, and that automation and testing practices mature alongside the organization’s delivery model.

The Director balances day-to-day delivery enablement with longer-term capability development, ensuring that analysis and quality functions scale effectively, reduce risk, and increase confidence in technology outcomes.

• Demonstrates the Company’s mission, while successfully performing its core values related to integrity, service, excellence, stability, strength, respect, and teamwork.
• Regular and timely attendance in the office is an essential function of the position.
• Business Analysis & Quality Strategy
  • Establish the vision, standards, and operating model for business analysis and quality assurance across the organization.
  • Ensure BA and QA practices support agile delivery principles, emphasizing collaboration, shared accountability, and continuous learning.
  • Define and evolve organizational expectations and shared standards for requirements clarity, acceptance criteria, testing depth, and quality outcomes across teams.
• Agile Delivery Enablement
  • Ensure Business Analysts and QA Engineers are embedded within agile teams and operating as integral contributors to delivery outcomes.
  • Partner with product, delivery, and engineering leadership to improve backlog quality, refinement practices, and readiness for development.
  • Promote appropriate consistency in approaches to definition of ready, definition of done, and quality validation across teams.
• Quality Engineering & Test Automation
  • Provide strategic direction for quality engineering practices, including test automation, test strategy, and tooling.
  • Guide and support the Lead QA Engineer in establishing and evolving the organization’s automated testing framework and quality architecture.
  • Ensure automation efforts are aligned with delivery priorities and reduce regression risk while improving speed and confidence.
• Operational Leadership & Continuous Improvement
  • Establish metrics and feedback loops to assess quality, rework, defect trends, and delivery effectiveness.
  • Identify systemic issues impacting quality or…