EY Testing - GDS Consulting Quality Engineering Leader 

India, Karnataka, Bengaluru 

61083894

Essential Functions of the job

The Americas Insurance QE leader will lead / build out capability and deliver across various Insurance LoBs – P&C, Life and Annuities. The QE leader will be responsible for:

• Managing and running Insurance QE engagements for Americas within EY GDS
• Run end to end QE delivery for Americas Insurance
• Will have client delivery teams reporting from across cross functional teams
• Overall responsibility for QE growth including large transformation and managed QE deal participation, talent acquisition and new capability build out
• People and performance management with proven ability to nurture and build teams across clients and sustain teams for longer period
• Planning, prioritization and tracking of QE pipeline for Americas Insurance sector
• Pursuit Leadership for large deals
• Host several client stakeholders to create the conducive & collaborative environment for client innovation.
• Should be able to navigate a hybrid consulting organization and manage several stakeholder groups
• Expand the Quality Engineering services for Insurance to new areas and trends in the market
• Build the QE business strategy for Americas Insurance sector
• Innovative mindset to build industry leading solutions
• Drive the Location Strategy to leverage global talent pool
• Drive the Talent agenda, focused on talent acquisition, up-skilling initiatives and talent management

Analytical-Decision Making Responsibilities

• Understanding the client’s situation and pricing the deals appropriately
• Exhibit EY's partnership spirit to our clients with proactive governance of our engagements coupled with a broader perspective of client's objectives and goals
• Continuously look for opportunities to build and sell industry
• Deliver value to the clients by providing solutions that help improve their business metric
• Analyze the market dynamics to build the robust future roadmap
• Liaison with the clients directly to resolve issues / conflicts

Education and Experience

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering or information systems
• 20-25 years of relevant experience with atleast 5 years in leadership capacity
• Should have at least 10 years’ experience in delivering Guidewire transformation programs for Insurance clients
• Should have led team of at least 200 professionals
• Should have led large transformation programs and accounts
• At least 1 Certification in program management (PMI, Prince2) or Scrum Certifications/ safe agilist etc.
• Guidewire ACE certification

Knowledge and Skills Requirements

• Has prior experience in setting up centers of excellence in Insurance packaged products (Guidewire etc. )
• Strong and inspirational leadership with focus on domain led technical delivery excellence.
• Grow and sustain large, high-performing teams; specialization in Guidewire with strong familiarity of market landscape
• Must have the ability to engage with client executive leadership, lead large pursuits and take end to end ownership of deal making
• Paint a compelling vision of the future, leverage storytelling and rally others with passion and purpose.
• Strong communication skills and able to successfully articulate techno functional concepts to both business and technology audience
• Strong experience in managing and working with globally connected teams
• Experience in reviewing decisions and articulate pros/cons of options based on personal experience, industry knowledge, and best practices.

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