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Vice President of Quality roles qualify as specialty occupations under H-1B visa, making them viable for employer sponsorship. Candidates typically hold advanced degrees in engineering, science, or business quality disciplines. With USCIS classifying VPQ positions as requiring specialized expertise, U.S. employers in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices sponsor this title regularly.
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Requisition ID
95334
Department
Tech Data AI Ventures
Job Function
Tech Data AI Ventures
Location
Remote, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 3 days per quarter
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures:
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Role Overview
New York Life is seeking an Enterprise Quality Engineering Architect for Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), Cyber/Security, and AI & Data to serve as the accountable quality leader for these portfolios within the Enterprise Quality Engineering organization. Reporting to the Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Quality Engineering, you will apply enterprise standards, lead release testing, and drive a modern, automation-first approach to quality across your value streams.
- Own the EQE strategy, process, and risk posture for your domain, applying enterprise quality standards, release gates, and scorecard measures and escalating risks and exceptions to the CVP.
- Serve as the QE partner to ETS, Security and AI & Data value streams and product leadership, joining planning, release readiness, and governance forums.
- Establish approaches for infrastructure and platform regression, resilience, and performance testing, and embed security testing and control validation into release testing with Cyber teams.
- Define data quality, pipeline, and model validation practices (accuracy, drift, bias, explainability) with AI & Data teams.
- Direct the release testing team for your domain so release testing runs 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, driving root-cause remediation of systemic quality issues.
- Contribute domain metrics to enterprise quality dashboards and mentor QE staff and consultants while sharing practices with fellow Cross-Tech QE Leads.
What You'll Bring
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience) with 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technology delivery, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading teams or vendor-supported pods.
- Experience validating data pipelines, analytics, or machine-learning models.
- Experience in security testing, control frameworks (e.g., NIST, SOC), and regulated change management; experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code testing.
- 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.
- Experience with non-functional testing and testing in infrastructure, security, or data platform environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with 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.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience managing consulting-partner or offshore test teams.
- Experience with AI-enabled testing, intelligent automation, or predictive quality analytics.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by improved delivery confidence, operational resilience, and technology quality across your domain. Key measures of success include:
- Every release in the domain tested through the release testing pods against enterprise gates.
- Reduction in production defects, defect leakage, and recurring incidents.
- Successful adoption of the Agentic QE platform by the ETS, Security & AI & Data teams.
- Increased automation adoption across functional, integration, API, performance, and security testing.
- Documented testing approaches for security, data, and model quality adopted in the domain.
- Reduced audit findings and production incidents tied to quality in ETS, Security, and AI & Data.
- Deloitte engineers aligned to value streams and delivering against agreed outcomes.
- Trusted-partner standing with business and technology leaders in the domain.
Job Level: LEVELMG2
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $133,000-$190,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 95334
Job Description
Requisition ID
95334
Department
Tech Data AI Ventures
Job Function
Tech Data AI Ventures
Location
Remote, New York, United States
Role Location Designation
Hybrid - 3 days per quarter
Location Designation: Hybrid - 3 days per quarter
Technology, Data, AI and Ventures:
Within the Tech, Data, AI, Ventures (TDAV) organization, our work is guided by a shared vision: deploying the power of technology, data, AI and ventures to accelerate sustainable competitive advantage for New York Life's businesses. We build solutions that power how we serve policy owners, agents, advisors and employees while delivering measurable business outcomes.
Across technology, data, AI, cyber, product, digital experience, architecture and infrastructure, TDAV combines the scale and investment of an industry leader, access to leading-edge technologies and the opportunity to help shape how a world-class financial services company competes in the AI era - all backed by the stability and purpose of a mutual company built to last.
Role Overview
New York Life is seeking an Enterprise Quality Engineering Architect for Enterprise Technology Services (ETS), Cyber/Security, and AI & Data to serve as the accountable quality leader for these portfolios within the Enterprise Quality Engineering organization. Reporting to the Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Quality Engineering, you will apply enterprise standards, lead release testing, and drive a modern, automation-first approach to quality across your value streams.
- Own the EQE strategy, process, and risk posture for your domain, applying enterprise quality standards, release gates, and scorecard measures and escalating risks and exceptions to the CVP.
- Serve as the QE partner to ETS, Security and AI & Data value streams and product leadership, joining planning, release readiness, and governance forums.
- Establish approaches for infrastructure and platform regression, resilience, and performance testing, and embed security testing and control validation into release testing with Cyber teams.
- Define data quality, pipeline, and model validation practices (accuracy, drift, bias, explainability) with AI & Data teams.
- Direct the release testing team for your domain so release testing runs 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, driving root-cause remediation of systemic quality issues.
- Contribute domain metrics to enterprise quality dashboards and mentor QE staff and consultants while sharing practices with fellow Cross-Tech QE Leads.
What You'll Bring
Required Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related discipline (or equivalent practical experience) with 10+ years of experience in software engineering, technology delivery, or quality engineering, including 4+ years leading teams or vendor-supported pods.
- Experience validating data pipelines, analytics, or machine-learning models.
- Experience in security testing, control frameworks (e.g., NIST, SOC), and regulated change management; experience with cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code testing.
- 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.
- Experience with non-functional testing and testing in infrastructure, security, or data platform environments.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with 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.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or another highly regulated industry.
- Experience managing consulting-partner or offshore test teams.
- Experience with AI-enabled testing, intelligent automation, or predictive quality analytics.
Success Measures
Success in this role will be measured by improved delivery confidence, operational resilience, and technology quality across your domain. Key measures of success include:
- Every release in the domain tested through the release testing pods against enterprise gates.
- Reduction in production defects, defect leakage, and recurring incidents.
- Successful adoption of the Agentic QE platform by the ETS, Security & AI & Data teams.
- Increased automation adoption across functional, integration, API, performance, and security testing.
- Documented testing approaches for security, data, and model quality adopted in the domain.
- Reduced audit findings and production incidents tied to quality in ETS, Security, and AI & Data.
- Deloitte engineers aligned to value streams and delivering against agreed outcomes.
- Trusted-partner standing with business and technology leaders in the domain.
Job Level: LEVELMG2
Pay Transparency
Salary Range: $133,000-$190,000
Overtime eligible: Exempt
Discretionary bonus eligible: Yes
Sales bonus eligible: No
Actual base salary will be determined based on several factors but not limited to individual’s experience, skills, qualifications, and job location. Additionally, employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus. In addition to base salary, employees may also be eligible to participate in an incentive program.
Company Overview
At New York Life, our 180-year legacy of purpose and integrity fuels our future. As we evolve into a more technology-, data-, and AI-enabled organization, we remain grounded in the values that drive lasting impact.
Our diverse business portfolio creates opportunities to make a difference across industries and communities—inviting bold thinking, collaborative problem-solving, and purpose-driven innovation. Here, you’ll find the rare balance of long-standing stability and forward momentum, supported by an inclusive team that honors tradition while embracing progress.
As a Fortune 100 mutual company, we offer a place to grow your skills, contribute to meaningful work, and deliver solutions that matter. Your ideas drive what’s next, and your growth powers it.
Our Benefits
We provide a full package of benefits for employees – and have unique offerings for a modern workforce, including leave programs, adoption assistance, and student loan repayment programs. Based on feedback from our employees, we continue to refine and add benefits to our offering, so that you can flourish both inside and outside of work. Click here to discover more about our comprehensive benefit options or visit our NYL Benefits Site.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
At New York Life, fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to who we are and how we serve our communities. We have a longstanding commitment to creating an environment where individuals can contribute their best and succeed together. This foundation is rooted in our core values of humanity and integrity, ensuring that every employee feels valued and supported. By embracing a broad range of perspectives and experiences, we achieve greater success and fulfill our promise of providing financial security and peace of mind to families across all communities. Click here to learn more about New York Life’s leadership in this space.
Recognized as one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies, New York Life is committed to improving local communities through a culture of employee giving and volunteerism, supported by the Foundation. We're proud that due to our mutuality, we operate in the best interests of our policy owners. To learn more about career opportunities at New York Life, please visit the Careers page of www.NewYorkLife.com.
Job Requisition ID: 95334
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Align your credentials to specialty occupation standards
USCIS requires that your degree field directly relates to the VP of Quality role. A degree in industrial engineering, chemistry, or quality management carries more weight than a general business degree, so position your transcripts and credential evaluations accordingly.
Target regulated industries with active LCA filings
Pharmaceutical, medical device, and aerospace manufacturers file LCAs for VP-level quality roles far more frequently than general manufacturers. These sectors face FDA and FAA compliance mandates that make a credentialed foreign-national candidate a genuine business necessity.
Use Migrate Mate to find verified sponsoring employers
Search Migrate Mate's curated database of employers with confirmed LCA filing history for quality leadership roles. You'll see which companies have sponsored this title before, saving time you'd otherwise spend cold-applying to employers with no sponsorship track record.
Get your prevailing wage tier confirmed before negotiating
VP of Quality roles often fall at DOL wage Level III or IV. Run the OFLC Wage Search using your target metro area before entering salary discussions, so you know the minimum your employer must certify on the LCA and can negotiate above it.
Flag the specialty occupation argument early with HR
Many HR teams assume senior leadership titles face fewer visa hurdles, but USCIS scrutinizes whether the specific duties require a directly related degree. Provide a detailed job description that maps your quality systems responsibilities to your academic discipline before the offer stage.
Plan PERM timing around your quality role's scope
If your employer pursues a green card through PERM labor certification, the posted job description must match your actual VP of Quality duties exactly. Responsibilities that expand after PERM is filed can invalidate the certification, so lock down the role scope in writing at offer.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a VP of Quality role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B purposes?
Yes, VP of Quality positions typically qualify as specialty occupations under USCIS guidelines because they require a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as engineering, chemistry, or quality management. The key is demonstrating that the specific duties, including designing quality systems and overseeing regulatory compliance, cannot be performed without that specialized educational background. A vague or generalist job description can undermine the case.
Which visa types are realistic for a VP of Quality seeking U.S. sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path for this role, covering specialty occupation workers in quality management, engineering, and regulated sciences. Australian nationals can pursue the E-3 visa under the same specialty occupation standard without entering the H-1B lottery. Canadians and Mexicans may qualify for TN visa status if the role maps cleanly to an eligible USMCA profession. For senior candidates with significant industry recognition, O-1A is worth exploring.
How do employers verify they're paying the correct wage for a sponsored VP of Quality?
Employers must file a Labor Condition Application certifying they'll pay at least the prevailing wage for the role in that geographic area. For VP of Quality positions, that typically falls at DOL wage Level III or IV, depending on supervision responsibilities and industry. The OFLC Wage Search tool lets both you and your employer verify the applicable wage before the LCA is filed, avoiding certification problems later.
Where can I find employers who actively sponsor VP of Quality candidates?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified LCA filing history for quality leadership roles, searchable by location and role type. This lets you focus your applications on companies that have already committed to sponsoring candidates at this level, rather than spending time on employers who may decline once they learn you need a visa.
Does having an ASQ certification or equivalent help the H-1B specialty occupation argument?
Professional certifications like ASQ's Certified Quality Engineer or Certified Manager of Quality strengthen your application but don't substitute for the degree requirement. USCIS evaluates specialty occupation primarily on whether a theoretical and practical application of highly specialized knowledge is required, and whether that knowledge is typically acquired through a bachelor's or higher degree in a specific field. Certifications support the argument but cannot anchor it alone.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Vice President of Quality jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.