Lead Quality Software Engineer

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IT - Development

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential of leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there.

We believe everyone deserves to live their best life. More than a century ago, we were among the first financial services companies in America to serve everyday people from all walks of life.

Today, we’re part of an international holding company, with millions of customers and thousands of employees worldwide. Our insurance, retirement, and investment solutions help people make the most of what’s important to them.

We’re empowered by a vast agent network covering North America, with diversity to match. Together with our nonprofit research institute and foundation, we tune in, step up, and are a force for good — for our customers and the communities where we live, work, and play. United in our purpose, we help people create the financial freedom to live life on their terms.

Transamerica is organized into three distinct businesses. These include
1) World Financial Group, including Transamerica Financial Advisors,
2) Protection Solutions and Savings & Investments, comprised of life insurance, annuities, employee benefits, retirement plans, and Transamerica Investment Solutions, and
3) Financial Assets, which includes legacy blocks of long term care, universal life, and variable and fixed annuities. These are supported by Transamerica Corporate , which includes Finance, People and Places, General Counsel, Risk, Internal Audit, Strategy and Development, and Corporate Affairs, which covers Communications, Brand, and Government and Policy Affairs.

Transamerica employs nearly 7 ,000 people. It’s part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group serving approximately 23.9 million customers worldwide.
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The Lead Quality Software Engineer is a senior, hands‑on technical leader responsible for defining, implementing, and continuously improving software quality practices across Transamerica’s technology ecosystem. This role emphasizes test automation, CI/CD integration, AI‑enabled quality engineering, and enterprise‑scale testing for cloud‑native, distributed systems. The Lead Quality Software Engineer serves as a subject‑matter expert (SME) in modern testing strategies, mentors engineers, and drives a culture of quality, reliability, and continuous improvement across the full software development lifecycle.

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise‑grade testing frameworks and standards with an automation‑first, shift‑left focus.
• Define and document best practices for automated testing, API testing, performance, security, and test data management.
• Perform hands‑on quality engineering including test strategy development, automated test creation, exploratory testing, and defect analysis.
• Validate distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event‑driven architectures.
• Participate in code reviews and architectural discussions to ensure testability and maintainability.
• Lead the design and evolution of test automation frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Embed automated quality gates into build and deployment workflows.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and platform teams to ensure reliable, scalable test execution in cloud and containerized environments.
• Mentor engineers on automation frameworks, tooling, and modern testing methodologies.
• Communicate quality risks, metrics, and results to technical and business stakeholders.
• Define, track, and analyze quality metrics including automation coverage, defect trends, and pipeline health.
• Participate in enterprise initiatives to define and…