Contractor Quality Assurance Analyst

Mandatory skills:

DevOps tools, Jira, streamlined software development, continuous integration, deployment processes
SQL
security, accessibility, performance, stress testing
planning, designing, executing tests, mentoring, product quality
boundary, input validation, error validation
test cases, test scripts, Test Plan, test requirements, test data, test execution

Description:

Tasks

Participate in formal review of business/functional requirements and application design
Prepare a Test Plan
Determine the types of testing that will be executed
Design and document test cases and scripts (manual and/or automated)
Identify and communicate test requirements
Establish testing entrance and exit criteria
Identify and prepare test data
Execute manual and/or automated test scripts for complex projects.
Analyze, report, help troubleshoot and resolve test failures
Report overall test status and results
Report and log defects found as a result of the test execution
Perform other testing tasks as may be required by the project
Provide knowledge transfer

Desired Skills

Five (5) years of Quality Assurance work creating and executing manual test cases/test scripts from scratch.
Experience with Software development lifecycle methodologies including agile and the Scrum framework as a team member.
Experience writing and executing both positive (happy path) and negative (e.g. boundary, input validation, exception (error validation) test cases.
Experience in collaborative teamwork, establishing/maintaining working relationships with business customers and technology staff, while concurrently providing technical leadership in planning, designing, executing tests, mentoring, and developing procedures for product quality on complex projects utilizing industry-standard software development methodologies.
Experience in multiple programming languages, software development technologies, and diverse database platforms, with hands-on experience in working with web-based forms, web-based content, interactive solutions, and conducting testing on web-based applications, web services, and database systems.
Experience on large, complex implementations with 3rd party vendors.
Experience in utilizing DevOps tools such as Jira for streamlined software development, continuous integration, and deployment processes.
Experience with security, accessibility, performance, and stress testing.
Ability to communicate clearly, present complex information to users in a comprehensive style, translate technical, and system information for non-technical stakeholders.
SQL experience

Note:

The work is expected to be done remotely.