Corporate Vice President - Enterprise Quality Engineer
About The Position
New York Life is seeking an Enterprise Quality Engineer for the Strategic Business (SIBs) and Corporate technology portfolios. The role serves as the liaison and accountable quality leader for these portfolios within the Enterprise Quality Engineering organization. Reporting to the Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Quality Engineering, the position applies enterprise standards, leads release testing, and drives a modern, automation-first approach to quality across its value streams. The role owns the domain's Enterprise Quality Engineering strategy, process, and risk posture; partners with value stream and product leadership; directs release testing; and advances automation, AI-enabled quality engineering, and quality practices embedded in CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines. It also works across Product, Engineering, Architecture, Release Management, and Production Support to improve release confidence, production stability, and delivery predictability. Success is measured by stronger delivery confidence, operational resilience, and technology quality across the domain.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 10 years of experience in software engineering, technology delivery, or quality engineering.
- At least 4 years leading teams or vendor-supported pods.
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
- Familiarity with corporate and shared-services platforms, including finance, HR, and enterprise operations, and with strategic business applications.
- Demonstrated success leading quality engineering and release testing in complex, highly regulated environments.
- Hands-on expertise in test automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, and release-based testing across multiple applications.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to influence senior business and technology leaders across a matrixed enterprise.
- Experience defining and reporting quality metrics and KPIs that provide meaningful insight into delivery health and production stability.
Nice To Haves
- Experience managing consulting-partner or offshore test teams.
- Experience with AI-enabled testing, intelligent automation, or predictive quality analytics.
Responsibilities
- Own the Enterprise Quality Engineering strategy, process, and risk posture for the domain, applying enterprise quality standards, release gates, and scorecard measures and escalating risks and exceptions to the CVP.
- Serve as the QE partner to SIBs and Corporate value stream and product leadership, participating in planning, release readiness, and governance forums.
- Direct release testing pods so that release testing occurs on every release with clear scope, entry and exit criteria, and coordination with the Release Testing Lead on schedules, environments, test data, and defect triage.
- Drive adoption of test automation, agentic and AI-enabled QE, and QE Enablement (C4E) services, embedding quality into CI/CD and DevSecOps pipelines.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Architecture, Release Management, and Production Support leaders to improve release confidence, production stability, and delivery predictability.
- Drive root-cause remediation of systemic quality issues.
- Contribute domain metrics to enterprise quality dashboards.
- Mentor QE staff and consultants and share practices with fellow Cross-Tech QE Leads.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus eligibility.
- Potential eligibility to participate in an incentive program.
- Employee benefits package, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
