Senior Quality Assurance Analyst - Higginbotham

Fortress Affinity Management is Higginbotham ’s standalone affinity insurance platform — purpose-built to turn group relationships into scalable, recurring insurance programs. FAM provides the complete infrastructure needed to support these programs, including digital intake systems, member portals, and dedicated service teams, all aimed at reducing friction and improving results for both producers and their clients.

Position Summary: The Senior Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst serves as a key quality partner within Fortress Affinity Management, responsible for strengthening release confidence, reducing production risk, and ensuring the quality, reliability, and functional integrity of internally developed software applications. This role works closely with software developers, product owners, and business stakeholders to design and execute test strategies that validate application behavior against requirements, business expectations, and operational readiness within a Microsoft-centric development environment.

The Senior QA Analyst identifies, documents, and tracks defects throughout the software development lifecycle, partners with development teams to accelerate resolution, and supports go/no-go readiness decisions ahead of production releases. Success in this role requires analytical rigor, sound judgment, and a continuous improvement mindset that helps prevent defects earlier in the lifecycle and improves the overall quality discipline of the technology team. Fortress Affinity Management is a forward-thinking technology organization that embraces the thoughtful use of AI-assisted tools to improve software design, development efficiency, test coverage, and overall delivery quality.

You’ll serve as the primary QA function embedded within a small, cross-functional development team, partnering closely with developers, product ownership, and business stakeholders to support quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Key Responsibilities

• Develops and maintains test plans, test cases, and test scripts across functional, regression, integration, and UAT phases to ensure complete and scalable test coverage as applications evolve
• Executes primarily manual test coverage while supporting the expansion and maintenance of automated test suites to improve quality, speed, and repeatability
• Identifies, documents, and tracks defects, performs root cause analysis on recurring issues, and partners with development teams to prioritize and resolve quality risks efficiently
• Partners with software developers, business analysts, and product owners to clarify requirements, identify edge cases, and ensure testability prior to development
• Validates release readiness and communicates go/no-go assessments to stakeholders prior to production deployments
• Maintains test documentation and quality artifacts, and reports test results, defect tre