Role Summary

We are looking for a senior BA/QA Lead Smart Apps with around 15 years of overall experience, including robust exposure to business analysis, QA leadership, delivery, and stakeholder management in the insurance domain.

This role will own business requirement quality, end-to-end test governance, release readiness, UAT coordination, and quality outcomes across Smart Apps / Insurance initiatives. The role requires close collaboration with business stakeholders, product owners, architects, development teams, QA teams, and other cross-cutting teams to ensure high-quality, low-risk delivery.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead BA and QA activities across Smart Apps / Insurance releases, from requirement discovery to production validation.
- Own requirement quality, including business process understanding, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability, and requirement sign-offs.
- Write user stories that clearly capture requirements, align stakeholders, and guide development with actionable, testable insights.
- Define and drive QA strategy, test planning, governance, standards, and best practices across projects.
- Lead functional, regression, integration, UAT, and production validation cycles.
- Drive test automation adoption using automation tools to improve coverage and efficiency.
- Own defect governance, including triage, prioritization, root-cause discussions, reporting, and closure tracking.
- Ensure end-to-end traceability from requirements to test cases, defects, and release readiness.
- Partner with Solution Architects / Tech Leads to review solution impacts, integration dependencies, and data quality risks.
- Manage business, product owner, client, and delivery stakeholder communication, including readiness updates and sign-offs.
- Provide quality metrics, dashboards, risk insights, and executive-level updates to leadership.
- Drive proactive risk identification and mitigation related to scope, quality, dependencies, data, timelines, and release readiness.




- Mentor BA/QA team members and promote ownership, domain depth, automation mindset, and continuous improvement.
- Promote AI adoption, automation, efficiency improvements, and continuous learning within the team.
- Support major releases, upgrades, production validations, and post-release quality reviews.

Required Skills & Experience

- Around 15 years of experience in BA/QA, delivery quality, testing, or business process roles.
- Good understanding of insurance business processes, such as policy servicing, claims, customer servicing, case management, and operational workflows.

- Ability to lead both
- Business Analysis – requirements, user stories, process flows, acceptance criteria.
- Quality Assurance – test strategy, execution governance, automation, release sign-off and UAT coordination.
- Experience in Agile / Scrum delivery models.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with ability to work across business, technology, QA, and leadership teams.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and decision-making skills.
- Experience managing delivery risks, and release-level quality outcomes.

Nice to have Skills

- Experience in ServiceNow delivery, preferably across CSM, Insurance, or Financial Services workflows.
- Understanding of ServiceNow platform concepts, including workflows, catalog items, integrations, data model, portals/workspaces, and reporting.
- ServiceNow configurations, customizations, workflows, integrations, case flows, catalog items, portals, and data changes.

Nice to Have ServiceNow Certifications / Learning

Preferred

- CSA – Certified System Administrator
- FSO Insurance Accreditation
- ATF Micro-Certification

Recommended

- CIS-CSM – Certified Implementation Specialist: Customer Service Management
- CIS-DF – Data Foundations
- Workflow / Flow Designer Micro-Certification
- Platform Analytics Micro-Certification

Good to Have

- CIS-ITSM
- Predictive Intelligence Micro-Certification
- Virtual Agent Micro-Certification
- Playbooks
- Now Assist / AI
- UI Builder
- Service Portal
- Catalog Items / Service Catalog

📌 BA/QA Lead Smart Apps (Hyderabad)
🏢 DXC Technology
📍 Hyderabad