Qa Manual Tester - Remote

Qa Competencies Expected
Contribute to the team's effectiveness and efficiency by defining, designing, and executing tests in support of the agile development process.
Design test scenarios, acceptance criteria and test data.
Conduct exploratory testing and other manual testing as needed leveraging critical thinking and product knowledge to find issues rapidly.
Participates in code reviews to clarify requirements, validate test cases, and provide feedback to the development team.
Configure and maintain tooling for testing, coverage, and reporting.
Report on and maintain test results and test metrics.
Identify and track defects; work with developers and other business analysts to identify, isolate and resolve issues.
Ensures test environments are properly configured and available for each release as scheduled.
Performs periodic system audits to ensure that only controlled versions of the software reside in the appropriate environments. Communicates deployment status to product team(s).
Promotes necessary level of communication among the product team(s) to ensure QA efforts are appropriate, visible, and well understood.
Contribute to the team's effectiveness and efficiency by educating, supporting, and setting an example of software development best practices as related to testing.
Ba Competencies (nice To Have)
Assists in soliciting business requirements through interviews, workshops, and/or review of existing system documentation or software.
Gains knowledge and completes assignments related to system user story acceptance criteria definition, testing, implementation, and support of business applications or components thereof that meet or exceed the expectations of FM Global's employees and customers.
Gains an understanding of and displays hands on utilization of industry standard analysis techniques and skills to uncover and document business requirements, such as data flow modeling, use-case analysis, and workflow analysis.
Gains proficiency in documenting the results of analysis activities using assigned templates and tools including Azure DevOps.
Gains and displays understanding of business processes in the assigned area and its part in FM Global's business model.
Qualifications/Experience
5+ years of experience as a Quality Assurance Specialist.
2+ years of experience working with agile teams, writing user stories, acceptance criteria and test cases etc.
2+ years of experience working with financial systems.
BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related discipline
Skills/Knowledge
Knowledge of Financial systems and finance terms / terminology, experience with financial reconciliation processes including month end.
Experience using Azure DevOps to create/update/refine user stories, acceptance criteria, tasks, and sprint backlogs.
Experience using as Azure DevOps for test case management, test case generation, problem tracking/reporting system and version control system with Git.
Experience working in a Scrum or Kanban environment with an Agile mindset and fast to adapt to change.
Experience communicating with clients and other end-users in a professional and proficient manner utilizing excellent oral/written communications.
Demonstrable ability to multi-task and establish priorities for own work to meet timelines as well as demonstrate organizational and time management skills.
Experience working with developers to ensure that systems are designed for reliability, security, performance, and testability.
Experience planning, designing, implementing testing strategies, metrics for large and/or complex business systems.
Experience creating/maintaining complex test data sets.
Proven ability to perform functional, integration, load/stress, and regression testing and to accurately evaluate and document the results.
Proven ability to use analytical and problem-solving skills to gather appropriate data to diagnose the cause of a problem or to develop a solution.
Proven ability to gather and analyze business requirements and understand business activity and information models to develop appropriate tests.