Corporate Vice President - Test Delivery Lead for the Policy Admin Modernization Program

Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per week 

When you join New York Life, you’re joining a company that values career development, collaboration, innovation, and inclusiveness. We want employees to feel proud about being part of a company that is committed to doing the right thing. You’ll have the opportunity to grow your career while developing personally and professionally through various resources and programs. New York Life is a relationship-based company and appreciates how both virtual and in-person interactions support our culture. 

As part of Technology, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to groundbreaking initiatives that shape New York Life's digital landscape. Leverage cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI to increase productivity, streamline processes, and create seamless experiences for clients, agents, and employees. Your expertise fuels innovation, agility, and growth — driving the company's success. 

NYL is embarking on a multi-year journey to modernize our core Policy Admin Systems. Policy Admin Systems are the heart of how NYLife manages our customer’s Life Insurance Policies and ultimately our relationship with our customers. 

Role Overview: 

We are looking for a Test Delivery Lead to join our team on the Policy Admin Modernization Program. This role is accountable for building and executing a multi-year, cross-function test strategy to support our Policy Admin Modernization program. They will lead a testing team focused on end-to-end system testing across dozens of applications and collaborate with testing leads across multiple business areas to validate cross-system implementation quality. They will be responsible for defining the scope of the testing, tracking testing progress, identifying blockers, and reporting progress to our Program Leadership Team. 

What You’ll Do: 

• Create a program test strategy that outlines the approach, objectives, and priorities for testing the new policy admin system. 

• Socialize the test strategy within our team and with our cross-tech partners to ensure that testing scope, roles and responsibilities are correctly aligned. 

• Lead a testing team that will primarily build test automation and sometimes manually test the system. 

• Collaborate with cross-tech testing partners to validate that NYL ecosystem works as expected. 

• Create a program level test governance framework to provide visibility to business leadership on test coverage, risks, completion percentage and blockers. 

• Work collaboratively with program leadership, multiple business teams and technology partners to deliver innovate testing solution. 

• Mentoring and growing test team members into larger and more impactful team contributions. 

What You’ll Bring: 

• 10+ years leading large testing programs that span multiple functional areas. 

• Expert knowledge of testing frameworks and how to apply them within a large program. 

• Expert knowledge of testing management tools like PractiTest to build and track testing progress. 

• Extensive experience quickly analyzing current state test capability, establishing a plan to improve test capabilities, and executing on that plan to improve repeatability and quality of testing outcomes. 

• Proficiency is communicating with both business executives on program level testing efforts and with testing team members to ensure that they stay focused on task. 

• Comprehensive understanding of how to test Cloud, Distributed and Mainframe based systems. 

Desired Experience 

• Knowledge of Policy Admin Systems like Verisk FAST or ALIP. 

• Leading large testing program for a financial services company. 

• Knowledge of Life Product Expected Values Testing. 

Key Behaviors 

• Exhibits bias-to-action and avoids analysis-paralysis. 

• Separates what must be done now, and what can be improved later. 

• Willing to take intelligent risks. 

• Infuses a “how can we” option-making mindset to bring the best ideas forward. 

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Pay Transparency

Salary Range:  $125,000-$212,500 

Overtime eligible: Exempt 

Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes 

Sales bonus eligible: No 

Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.

Our Benefits

We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.

Our Diversity Promise

We believe in a diverse workforce because it is our mission to advocate for the financial security and success of people in every community. This is why diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are guiding principles that are embedded in our brand and our culture. Click here to learn more about how we have been recognized for our leadership.

Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.

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Job Requisition ID: 90942