Senior Software Test Analyst

Job Title:Quality Assurance Analyst/Tester

Remote

C2C - $60/hr

Projected Start Date05/29/2023

Projected End Date/Duration-1 Years from projected start date

The Quality Assurance Analyst/Tester must have extensive experience and skills in Manual QA testing and have a solid understanding of all types of testing. The ideal candidate would have prior experience in testing the AMANDA enterprise permit and licensing application from Granicus (formerly Calytera).

**THIS IS NOT THE ADVANCED MARYLAND AUTOMATIC NETWORK DISK ARCHIVER (AMANDA).

Responsibilities

• Review business requirements for AMANDAby Granicusback office as well as portal and provide inputs on any identified gaps based on test scenarios of positive and negative conditions.
• Appropriately mark the defect severity to drive priority to development team for fixes.
• Develop and document test cases and success criteria scenarios during development of user stories.
• Collaborate with project team on a regular basis to provide inputs to maintain quality standards.
• Validate all the Business Rules, Validations and Conditions in AMANDAby Granicusas well as in the web portal.
• Participate in Agile Process including test effort estimations and by providing daily updates in Stand-ups.
• Provide inputs to Developers and Solution Architect on AMANDAby Granicusfitment of business requirements.
• Smoke testing for each deployment/ release
• Classify test cases into Smoke Test Suite, Regression Test Suite, Positive Test Cases and Negative Test Cases as defined at the project level.
• Perform migration testing with legacy data, new data created in AMANDAby Granicus, or a combination of both, and old features (unchanged features) and new features.
• Follow test plan and test strategy set at the project level by adhering to standards and ensuring quality of the deliverables
• Execute test cases and report bugs in Azure DevOps
• Maintain Test Scripts/ cases by constantly updating them based on the changes in the business functions based on demo feedback as well as UAT feedback.
• Create User Acceptance Test Scenarios for the SME’s and assist Business SMEs during User Acceptance Testing
• Troubleshoot and triage defects and bugs.
• Participate and contribute to the development and documentation of the test plan.
• Validate data and documents migrated from Legacy system to AMANDAby Granicus.
• Document defects and bugs with all the required details identified during testing.
• Regression testing when changes are implemented that have impact to other areas.

General Skills – Required

• Experience in reviewing test procedures and creating test scripts.
• Experience troubleshooting and tracking defects.
• Experience in applying different testing principles to design efficient test cases with a motive to ensure test coverage and quality.
• Experience in documenting and executing test cases for varying scenarios and conditions.
• Highly skilled at Manual QA testing (8+ years of experience preferred)
• Experience in fixing bugs and working with the development group.
• Hands on experience with testing internal business applications and public/client web portals
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment and come up with solutions to meet project needs.
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries (Oracle and SQL Server databases preferred)
• Experience designing test plans and test scenarios.
• Experience in documenting and evaluating test results.
• Experience in various Testing methodologies like Black Box Testing, Functional Testing, Regression testing etc.

·AMANDA Related Skills –Highly preferred, but not Required- AMANDA is a solution from Granicus(formerly Calytera).

·Workflow capabilities

·Manual testing of Amandaby Granicussoftware

·Knowledge of personalization features

·Knowledge of security features

·Experience conducting folder, people, process info validation.

·Knowledge of fees and payments

·Experience conducting checklist validations.

·Knowledge of Task lists