Quality Assurance Analyst
Piper Companies · Durham, NC · Yesterday
Quality AssuranceFull-time
Responsibilities
- Perform functional, regression, integration, and user acceptance testing within the policy administration system
- Execute file-based and data validation testing to ensure policy, premium, withdrawal, and financial calculation accuracy
- Compare and validate source and target data across insurance and financial systems
- Test policy administration workflows including new business, policy servicing, claims, accounting, and annuity/life insurance transactions
- Collaborate with business analysts, product owners, and developers to understand requirements and develop comprehensive test scenarios
- Identify, document, and track software defects utilizing Jira and other test management tools
- Support UAT activities and provide detailed testing results to business stakeholders
- Validate system integrations and backend data processing related to financial and insurance operations
- Assist with automation initiatives where applicable while maintaining strong manual testing coverage
- Ensure compliance with business, regulatory, and quality standards throughout testing activities
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree from accredited university
- 4-10 years of Quality Assurance experience (12 years maximum considered)
- Strong background within the Life Insurance and/or Annuity industry
- Experience supporting finance-related functions such as Oracle General Ledger (GL), accounting, payroll, financial reporting, or similar financial systems/processes
- Experience testing policy administration systems such as OIPA, FAST, ALIP, Vitech, CyberLife, WMA, or comparable platforms
- Strong experience with file-based testing, data validation, data reconciliation, and calculation verification
- Experience validating policy data, premium calculations, withdrawals, commissions, accounting transactions, and financial reporting data
- Ability to write and execute detailed test cases and document test results
- Familiarity with Jira and Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Basic SQL knowledge for backend data validation and integrity checks
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with excellent attention to detail
- Experience with both manual and automated testing is preferred; strong manual testers will be considered
Benefits
Competitive salary based on experience (DOE)
Full Comprehensive Benefits: Health, Vision, Dental, PTO, Paid Holidays, Long-Term Incentive Plan, and additional company-sponsored benefits.