Enterprise Test & Quality Lead

## Enterprise Test & Quality Lead Apply locations:
New York, NY:
Alpharetta, GAtime type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Todayjob requisition :
REQ
06655

This is your opportunity to join AXIS Capital – a trusted global provider of specialty lines insurance and reinsurance.  We stand apart for our outstanding client service, intelligent risk taking and superior risk adjusted returns for our shareholders. We also proudly maintain an entrepreneurial, disciplined and ethical corporate culture.  As a member of AXIS, you join a team that is among the best in the industry.

At AXIS, we believe that we are only as strong as our people. We strive to create an inclusive and welcoming culture where employees of all backgrounds and from all walks of life feel comfortable and empowered to be themselves. This means that we bring our whole selves to work.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic, including age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any basis prohibited by the laws that govern its operations.

We are seeking an Enterprise Test & Quality Lead to provide end-to-end ownership of testing across development, QA, UAT, and release activities. This role is accountable for defining and governing the test strategy, coordinating testing across multiple concurrent delivery teams, improving environment and test data readiness, and ensuring that releases meet agreed quality and business acceptance criteria. The role is particularly important in a delivery context where shared environments, constrained non-production data, and cross-team dependencies require disciplined planning, strong stakeholder management, and clear operational control.

** Key Responsibilities
*** Own the end-to-end test management lifecycle across Unit Testing, System Integration Testing, QA, UAT, regression testing, and release readiness.
* Define and drive a Quality Engineering strategy embedding automated testing across the SDLC including “shift-left” and “shift-right” practices.
* Define and maintain the overall test strategy, test plans, phase entry and exit criteria, acceptance thresholds, and defect management approach. Work and align with incumbent vendor to align QA to this overall strategy.
* Define and enforce automated quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
* Coordinate testing across multiple concurrent scrum teams, ensuring alignment of delivery schedules, dependencies, and release milestones.
* Define an environment strategy that enables parallel team execution, minimizes contention, and supports continuous testing.
* Ownership of Test Data Governance Framework
* o Ensure adherence and support from DPO / IRM / Privacy
* Own the approach to Test Data Management, including data readiness, lineage, masking or obfuscation controls, and interim solutions required to support testing safely and effectively.
* Partner with QA leads to define test scenarios, test cases, regression coverage, and the appropriate level of automation, including use of tools such as Tosca to deliver ROI driven automation, decisions on what to automate and coverage targets.
* KPI Management of QA vendor
* SLA tracking
* Capability and skill matrix optimization.
* Trend analysis of defect origin (code, data, environment, design) leading to systemic issue elimination
* Work with Product Owners and business stakeholders to secure UAT participation, define UAT scripts and acceptance criteria, and manage UAT execution to completion.
* The Test Manager should be a critical input into the release management go / no go stage gate decisions.
* Manage defect triage, retest cycles, and regression…