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Sr. Quality Practice Lead – IT Quality Assurance Consultant

COUNTRY Financial® · Bloomington, IL · 1 mo ago
Quality Assurance$113k–$156k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We must not repeat job title. Must not include Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, navigation, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info. Let's parse the posting. Content: - Intro: "Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial! We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients." This is generic fluff, maybe not needed? It's not a specific section; but it's part of description. Might be considered "About the role"? Actually there is a heading "About The Role". So we should capture that content under About the role. - "About The Role COUNTRY Financial is seeking a Sr. Quality Practice Lead in the IT Quality Assurance Consultant job profile to help strengthen, standardize, and advance testing practices across Technology. This Quality Engineering-level role provides enterprise quality assurance consulting, coaching, governance, and thought leadership to application areas, Agile Release Trains, value streams, and delivery teams. Rather than creating program-level test strategies or designing individual test cases, this role enables teams to improve how they plan, execute, measure, and continuously improve testing. The role researches modern industry testing practices, evaluates emerging tools and approaches, and recommends process and automation improvements that reduce test cycle time, improve release confidence, and accelerate time to production while maintaining quality, reliability, and alignment to enterprise standards. How does this role make an impact? Designs solutions after gathering business and technical requirements. - Develops software solutions that are high performing and meet technical standards. - Supports testing and problem solving/debugging of solutions. - Implements software solutions following best practices." Thus we have About the role content. - "Do you have what we're looking for? Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training. Experience in an IT Quality Assurance Consultant, Quality Practice Lead, Quality Engineering Lead, QA Governance Lead, QA Transformation Lead, Test Lead, QA Manager, or similar role. Experience coaching teams on testing standards, defect management, test reporting, risk-based testing, regression testing, automation adoption, and continuous improvement. Experience with quality metrics, defect leakage analysis, test case quality, test coverage, release readiness reporting, dashboards, and process improvement programs. Experience with test management, defect management, requirements traceability, and delivery tools such as Rally, Azure DevOps, Jira, GitLab, or similar platforms. Knowledge of insurance, financial services, or other regulated business domains. Familiarity with modern quality practices and tools including AI-enabled testing, quality gates in CI/CD, test automation accelerators, performance testing, observability, test data management, and test environment management. Ability to work across multiple teams and priorities in a dynamic environment where work may occasionally extend beyond normal business hours as business needs dictate." That's Requirements/Qualifications/Skills. We need to split into sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. The posting lumps them. We need to decide what goes where. Typically Requirements: years of experience, specific role experience. Qualifications: education? Not given. Skills: technical skills, tools, domains. We can allocate: - Requirements: Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience or a combination of related experience, education and training. Experience in an IT Quality Assurance Consultant, Quality Practice Lead, Quality Engineering Lead, QA Governance Lead, QA Transformation Lead, Test Lead, QA Manager, or similar role. - Qualifications: maybe knowledge of insurance, financial services, or other regulated business domains. Ability to work across multiple teams and priorities in a dynamic environment where work may occasionally extend beyond normal business hours as business needs dictate. Could be considered qualifications. - Skills: Experience coaching teams on testing standards, defect management, test reporting, risk-based testing, regression testing, automation adoption, and continuous improvement. Experience with quality metrics, defect leakage analysis, test case quality, test coverage, release readiness reporting, dashboards, and process improvement programs. Experience with test management, defect management, requirements traceability, and delivery tools such as Rally, Azure DevOps, Jira, GitLab, or similar platforms. Familiarity with modern quality practices and tools including AI-enabled testing, quality gates in CI/CD, test automation accelerators, performance testing, observability, test data management, and test environment management. We could also combine Qualifications and Skills if not enough distinct content. But we need to follow instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we combine Requirements and Qualifications into one "Requirements" section, and Skills into "Skills". Or we could have Requirements, Skills, Benefits, Pay. We have Pay: Base Pay Range $113,200-$155,650 plus Incentive Pay: Short-Term Incentive plan. We have Benefits: "You’ll be able to take advantage of our benefits package, which includes insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), 401(k) with company match." We have Schedule? Not mentioned explicitly. There's mention of ability to work across multiple teams and priorities in a dynamic environment where work may occasionally extend beyond normal business hours as business needs dictate. That's not a schedule; it's about flexibility. No explicit schedule. So we should not create Schedule section. We also have "Why work with us?" section: includes description of company, impact, etc. Could be considered "About the company" but not requested heading. We could incorporate into About the role? But we have About the role already. Could add a separate section like "About the company" but not in allowed headings. The allowed headings list includes About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we should not add extra headings. The "Why work with us?" content could be placed under Benefits? Not really. Could be omitted? But we must preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot invent or summarize away detail. However we can place it under a generic

without a heading? The instruction: Output ONLY the HTML fragment — no /, no markdown code fences. It didn't say we must wrap everything in headings; we can have

paragraphs outside sections. But they said use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). Use
  • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and

    for prose. Do NOT repeat the job title as a heading (the page already shows it) and do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

    or drop it. Thus we can have sections with headings for those that have content, and any other prose can be in

    without heading. So we can include the introductory fluff and "Why work with us?" as

    paragraphs. We must remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. The posting includes EEO statement at end: "COUNTRY Financial is committed to providing equal opportunity in all areas of employment, and in providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, disability, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations." That's boilerplate; we should remove it. Also "Come join our team at COUNTRY today!" is maybe a call to action; could be considered application instruction? Might be considered boilerplate; we can drop it. Now we need to decide what goes into Responsibilities section. The posting includes "How does this role make an impact? Designs solutions after gathering business and technical requirements. - Develops software solutions that are high performing and meet technical standards. - Supports testing and problem solving/debugging of solutions. - Implements software solutions following best practices." That's more like responsibilities/duties. Also earlier: "This Quality Engineering-level role provides enterprise quality assurance consulting, coaching, governance, and thought leadership to application areas, Agile Release Trains, value streams, and delivery teams. Rather than creating program-level test strategies or designing individual test cases, this role enables teams to improve how they plan, execute, measure, and continuously improve testing. The role researches modern industry testing practices, evaluates emerging tools and approaches, and recommends process and automation improvements that reduce test cycle time, improve release confidence, and accelerate time to production while maintaining quality, reliability, and alignment to enterprise standards." That's also responsibilities. Thus we can put those under Responsibilities as a

    • . Now About the role: The initial paragraph after "About The Role" includes description of role. We'll put that as

      . Now Requirements: The "Typically requires 10+ years..." etc. We'll put as

      • . Now Qualifications: maybe knowledge of insurance, financial services, or other regulated business domains. Ability to work across multiple teams and priorities in a dynamic environment where work may occasionally extend beyond normal business hours as business needs dictate. Could be separate but we could combine with Requirements? But we have separate headings allowed. We'll make Qualifications section with those two items as
        • . Now Skills: Experience coaching teams..., Experience with quality metrics..., Experience with test management..., Familiarity with modern quality practices... We'll put as
          • . Now Benefits: insurance benefits (medical, dental, vision, disability, and life), 401(k) with company match. We'll put as
            • . Now Pay: Base Pay Range $113,200-$155,650 plus Incentive Pay Short-Term Incentive plan. We'll put as

              maybe. Now Schedule: none, so omit. Now we need to ensure we don't include filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. Now produce HTML fragment. Structure:

              About the role

              ... (the description)

              Responsibilities

              • ...
              • ...

              Requirements

              • ...
              • ...

              Qualifications

              • ...
              • ...

              Skills

              • ...
              • ...

              Benefits

              • ...
              • ...

              Pay

              Base Pay Range $113,200-$155,650. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for a Short-Term Incentive plan.

              We may also include introductory fluff before sections as

              . Let's include the first paragraph: "Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial! We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work. Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients." This is generic but maybe we keep as

              before sections. However it includes "Apply today" which is application instruction; we should remove application instructions. The instruction says remove application instructions. So we should drop that sentence "Apply today to help our organization grow and make a difference for our clients." Also maybe the earlier "Experience more with a career at COUNTRY Financial! We’re excited you’re interested in a career at COUNTRY as we strive toward our vision - to enrich lives in the communities we serve. Our footprint spans coast to coast. But more important than where we operate, is the people who do the work." That's not application instruction;

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