Lead Test Analyst

As an Actuarial Platform Test Lead at Actuary IT Solutions, your role involves planning, coordinating, and leading end-to-end testing activities for actuarial and financial platforms. Your primary responsibility is to ensure high-quality, reliable, and audit-ready releases by orchestrating testing across IT, actuarial, and business stakeholders, while adopting an AI-first mindset to improve efficiency and insight. Key Accountabilities: - Define and own test strategies and test plans for releases, enhancements, and BAU changes. - Lead and coordinate SIT, UAT, regression, and release validation activities across multiple teams. - Define test scope, entry/exit criteria, test goals, and acceptance thresholds. - Orchestrate testing across manual and automated streams, ensuring alignment and traceability. - Act as the single point of accountability for test quality and release readiness. - Lead defect triage, root cause discussions, and prioritization with Product Owners and Engineering. - Ensure test evidence, results, and sign-offs meet internal control, audit, and regulatory expectations. - Provide clear quality reporting and dashboards to stakeholders. - Coordinate validation of actuarial calculations, projections, benchmarks, and financial outputs. - Ensure data integrity across input data, calculations, output files, and reports. - Work closely with actuarial SMEs to translate business and regulatory requirements into effective test scenarios. - Apply an AI-first way of thinking to testing activities, using AI tools to: - Support test case design and refinement. - Assist with test data preparation and analysis. - Improve defect analysis and reporting. - Use AI as an assistant, applying professional judgment and validation before adoption. - Continuously improve testing processes, standards, and tooling. Skills & Experience: - Required Experience: - Minimum 5 years of experience in testing or quality assurance roles for complex IT platforms. - Proven experience leading or coordinating end-to-end testing activities. - Experience working in data-heavy, financial, actuarial, or risk systems is strongly preferred. - Technical & Automation Skills: - Experience working with test automation frameworks and data comparison testing. - Basic to intermediate coding experience (e.g. SQL, Python, or similar) to support test analysis, automation, or data validation. - Familiarity with modern data or cloud platforms is an advantage. - AI & Mindset: - Practical exposure to AI-assisted tools (e.g. copilots, test accelerators) is an advantage. - Demonstrates curiosity, learning mindset, and openness to adopting new ways of working. - Professional Skills: - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. - Clear and confident communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Structured, detail-oriented, and accountable approach to quality. Education: - Bachelors degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Finance, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience). - This role is suited for a hands-on test professional ready to step into a lead position, combine structure with innovation, and help evolve actuarial platform testing through intelligent, AI-supported practices. As an Actuarial Platform Test Lead at Actuary IT Solutions, your role involves planning, coordinating, and leading end-to-end testing activities for actuarial and financial platforms. Your primary responsibility is to ensure high-quality, reliable, and audit-ready releases by orchestrating testing across IT, actuarial, and business stakeholders, while adopting an AI-first mindset to improve efficiency and insight. Key Accountabilities: - Define and own test strategies and test plans for releases, enhancements, and BAU changes. - Lead and coordinate SIT, UAT, regression, and release validation activities across multiple teams. - Define test scope, entry/exit criteria, test goals, and acceptance thresholds. - Orchestrate testing across manual and automated streams, ensuring alignment and traceability. - Act as the single point of accountability for test quality and release readiness. - Lead defect triage, root cause discussions, and prioritization with Product Owners and Engineering. - Ensure test evidence, results, and sign-offs meet internal control, audit, and regulatory expectations. - Provide clear quality reporting and dashboards to stakeholders. - Coordinate validation of actuarial calculations, projections, benchmarks, and financial outputs. - Ensure data integrity across input data, calculations, output files, and reports. - Work closely with actuarial SMEs to translate business and regulatory requirements into effective test scenarios. - Apply an AI-first way of thinking to testing activities, using AI tools to: - Support test case design and refinement. - Assist with test data preparation and analysis. - Improve defect analysis and report