Quality Assurance Strategy Lead
Resume:
John Jurek
Experience: Senior QA and delivery leader with 15+ years of
experience leading business-focused quality
**-**** ******* ********* ******** Lead strategy, functional testing, UAT governance, and
release readiness across complex enterprise and
- present MSIG USA, Remote regulated business environments. Proven success
Lead QA strategy across enterprise initiatives spanning multiple integrated systems, aligning managing distributed QA teams, translating
business requirements, test coverage, timelines, and risk while serving as workflow lead business and functional requirements into risk-
reporting to leadership based test coverage, validating transaction-heavy
Designed and led the end-to-end UAT and release readiness framework, defining scope, workflows, and partnering with business, product,
acceptance criteria, exit standards, and traceability across requirements, test cases, defects, and engineering stakeholders to ensure
and releases while delivering go/no-go readiness reporting operationally sound releases. Strong background in
Established structured pre-UAT defect triage and planning sessions with engineering, product, SQL-based data validation, Agile delivery, and
and business stakeholders; coordinated environment readiness, test data preparation, and UAT regulated financial systems.
execution while reducing defect carryover by ~15%
Directed API, integration, UI, and downstream data validation across five interconnected
systems, orchestrating defect investigation and validating business workflow impacts while Personal Info:
developing a reusable JSON-based process that reduced UAT setup by ~30%
Led automation strategy and backlog governance in Azure DevOps, identifying automation
candidates and coordinating SDET delivery planning in support of broader quality objectives
Provided delivery and quality leadership to a cross-functional team of 7 QA and BA ****.*********@*****.***
professionals, aligning defect risk, release readiness, and delivery priorities across concurrent
initiatives Phone
05-2021 Senior Quality Assurance Functional Manager Scrum Master
- 07-2025 Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Boston LinkedIn
Led QA strategy for complex financial transaction workflows within the Billing & Payments
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domain, aligning business requirements, risk-based test coverage, and release readiness
across multiple integrated services supporting a 3-week sprint cadence
Managed a blended onshore/offshore QA team of 5 across functional, API, automation, and Certifications
performance testing, assigning resources based on project scope, delivery timelines, business
risk, and testing priorities
Partnered with product, business, and engineering leadership to translate business
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
requirements into functional test coverage, validate workflow impacts, and support release
quality decisions Education
Directed API, UI, integration, and SQL-based data validation efforts while leading the automation
program, doubling automated coverage from ~150 to 300+ tests and reducing manual
regression by ~3 days Economics, B.A.
Introduced Jenkins-based regression reporting and structured defect triage processes, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
improving release visibility and accelerating issue resolution across teams
Served as Scrum Master for a cross-functional delivery team, driving sprint execution, blocker
resolution, stakeholder coordination, and continuous improvement Skills
10-2019 Senior Quality Assurance Architect QA Leadership
- 05-2021 Spyce Food Co, Somerville
Business Requirements Analysis
Defined and implemented enterprise QA strategy across mobile, web, backend, and robotics
systems, establishing company-wide test governance and release validation protocols Functional Test Planning
Created functional test plans and verification procedures for integrated hardware/software
workflows, executing system and integration testing in production-like environments UAT Governance & Release Readiness
Established centralized defect, test evidence, and traceability management in Jira while Risk-Based Testing
partnering with product and engineering teams on requirements readiness and feature validation
SQL & Data Validation
09-2017 Product Owner Delivery Lead API Testing
- 09-2019 Strata Decision Technology, Chicago
Integration Testing
Owned and prioritized Agile backlog for bi-weekly sprints, translating business stakeholder
requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and executable delivery plans Defect Triage & Root Cause Analysis
Led cross-functional Scrum delivery processes, dependency management, and UAT validation
while supporting two production releases per quarter Traceability Management
Partnered with leadership and stakeholders through monthly product demos, backlog Stakeholder Management
refinement, and workflow alignment to ensure delivery matched business expectations
Agile Delivery / Scrum Leadership
02-2013 Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Jira
- 09-2017 Sittercity, Chicago
Azure DevOps
Executed functional and regression testing across web-based application workflows while
partnering with product and engineering teams to support quality delivery Postman
Performed manual and automated cross-browser testing in cloud environments with Jenkins CI
integration and GitHub version control Jenkins
Expanded Selenium automation coverage, reducing manual regression effort by ~50%
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