Kforce has a client in NYC that is seeking a Quality Assurance Engineer to provide leadership, direction, and management, with overall accountability for IT Quality Assurance teams across insurance and assigned business lines. This role includes overseeing a team of consultants and leading the Quality Assurance team through a process-driven methodology to achieve project goals while adhering to QA standards and practices. Responsibilities: * Lead several IT Quality Assurance teams through a clearly defined process-driven methodology to ensure project goals, QA standards, and internal best practices are routinely and meticulously followed * Partner with Business and Development teams to review business/technical requirements and guides and assists QA testers in generating comprehensive test strategy, plans, impact analysis and test cases for effective assurance and testing functions * Manage QA capacity and resources and scheduling QA activities and quality gates for their project teams * Through contribution, help define and establish new sets of best-practices, processes, scorecards and tooling for Quality Assurance organization; This is to ensure that overall productivity and quality is measured to optimize targeted milestones * Collaborate with the Automation Lead(s) to establish a standards-based automation and performance testing competency; This includes developing a robust testing framework, utilizing testing and test management tools, and creating test data and test cases for key applications across the portfolio * Develop and maintain functional, end-to-end, performance, and regression test suites that thoroughly cover all aspects of applications across the portfolio * Ensure comprehensive impact analysis is conducted and reviewed thoroughly to identify the right test cases that cover relevant exposures, in collaboration with project stakeholders