IT QA Manager

As one of the leading writers of Federal Crop Insurance, AgriSompo North America combines industry experience, resources, capital and talent to deliver both traditional and innovative crop insurance and productivity tools to farmers, ranchers, insurers and agribusinesses in the United States. Our organization operates within a culture rooted in ethics, integrity and a belief that accountability, collaboration and agility are crucial to long-term success. 

AgriSompo North America is a part of AgriSompo, Sompo International’s global agriculture platform. This platform is an integrated underwriting, technology and distribution platform delivering innovate insurance and reinsurance solutions to agriculture partners worldwide.  Sompo International, AgriSompo’s parent company, is a global organization driven by its core values, a carrier that holds promise, trust and the commitment to protect.  Through operating subsidiaries, Sompo International writes agriculture, casualty and other specialty, professional lines, property, marine/energy and aviation lines of insurance and catastrophe, property, casualty, professional lines and specialty lines of reinsurance.

As a leading provider of crop insurance and other agricultural risk management tools, we recognize that our success is derived directly from those whose contributions matter most: our people. AgriSompo North America has major offices in Lenexa, Kansas and Des Moines, Iowa as well as regional offices around the country.  A shared commitment to integrity, accountability, collaboration and agility define our culture, and we strive to create exceptional value for our clients and shareholders and maintain AgriSompo North America as a desirable place to work.

Job Description

Are you looking for your next opportunity?

Sompo has a unique opportunity for an IT QA Manager in our Information Technology Department.

Location: This position will be based out of our Lenexa, KS office, Topeka, KS and Lubbock, TX office with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office; 2 days at home). We strive for collaboration, which is why we offer a work environment where our employees thrive and develop long-lasting careers.

Our business, your impact, our opportunity:

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with different IT teams to assess the performance and quality, both actual and perceived, of software products against specified exit criteria and standards.
• Manage and organize the QA team to work closely alongside business analysts and developers throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring requirements are clearly understood, testing is effectively planned and executed, and quality standards are consistently met.
• Coordinate QA resources, assign priorities, and provide guidance to team members to support project goals and delivery timelines.
• Design and execute test scenarios, requirements traceability matrices, and test cases; develop and document application test plans based on software requirements and technical specifications.
• Write, maintain, and/or automate software testing.
• Identify, analyze, and document defects, programming errors, and operational characteristics that are inconsistent with stated requirements and design specifications.
• Record and document results of test execution, including distribution of defect tracking reports.
• Ensure compliance with general quality assurance best practices, accepted industry standards, and standards set forth by upstream sources.
• Operate and maintain test environments and test data.
• Perform impact analysis and risk assessment.
• Track quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
• Suggest and implement improvements in test planning and execution.

What you’ll bring:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook.
• Experience using defect tracking systems.
• Experience with commonly used Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience testing various software applications across different platforms.
• Experience in environment management.
• Good knowledge and understanding of software programming languages and databases.
• Experience in compatibility and non-UI based testing.
• Working knowledge of data integration.
• Good understanding of SDLC and various SDLC models.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Experience writing manual test cases.
• Experience executing manual and automated test cases.
• Experience delivering and communicating test results.
• Ability to work collaboratively with teams to test software and determine root c