Principal Quality Assurance Specialist - Factory Mutual Insurance Company

FM is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles

Duties: Provide consultation at the high technical level to multiple project teams and application support groups in the analysis, design, and execution of effective Quality Assurance procedures and defect prevention/detection processes for corporate and client area information systems, across multiple computing environments. Contribute directly to these activities on large and complex projects. Determine and report the quality of multiple product releases at any time by quantifying the degree to which they meet the defined and implied user requirements. Ensure that systems delivered will consistently address the organization’s business need or problem as defined in the requirements.

Requirements: Requires Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science or related field of study, and 3 years of experience in any job title/occupation/position involving software quality assurance environment. Experience specified must include 3 years of experience with each of the following: analyzing business requirements and activity to develop appropriate tests in an Agile environment; developing and maintaining specific test cases (i.e., test data, test processes, and test results) and test strategies/test plans for component/assembly testing, integration testing, system testing, security and control testing, online help and user interface testing, conversion testing, load/stress testing, performance, regression and end-to-end testing while leveraging test automation technologies; performing load, stress, performance, and reliability testing efforts and supporting associated analyses; reporting and presenting the results of manual and automated executed tests; and working in database management systems (such as SQL) and application development environments (such as Visual Studio). Experience specified must also include 1 year of experience with each of the following: championing quality assurance practices and patterns within the corporate IT organization; and mentoring other QA team members on quality assurance excellence. Telecommuting is permitted. Can reside anywhere in the United States. Must be able to work Eastern Time Zone (EST) business hours and attend ad hoc meetings at the Corporate Office in Johnston, Rhode Island at a minimum of 1 time per quarter.

Employer:           Factory Mutual Insurance Company, 270 Central Avenue, Johnston, RI 02919

Work Location: Telecommuting is permitted. Can reside anywhere in the United States. Must be able to work Eastern Time Zone (EST) business hours and attend ad hoc meetings at the Corporate Office in Johnston, Rhode Island at a minimum of 1 time per quarter.

Salary:                  $100,400 to $169,400/year