Testing/Qa Analyst Jobs

Full Time Opportunity

General Description

This position will be responsible for planning, developing and executing testing tasks to ensure that the developed products meet the design specifications and adhere to the quality expectations. Candidate must be capable of performing QA process for custom developed and packaged software products. This includes unit, functional, system, integration, regression and data conversion testing. Position will also support new features and maintenances development activity.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Develop, build and maintain testing infrastructure
• Engage and participate in all aspects of design reviews, test and project plans, resource estimates, and implementation schedules
• Work closely with business and IT lead on planning and executing the user acceptance testing
• Communicate issues, testing status in a concise and timely manner
• Work through the full software development lifecycle with primary focus on testing and documentation activities
• Create, maintain and execute performance, stress and endurance tests
• Track and monitor defects to closure. Analyze the issue to determine if the problem is an application issue, user issue, training issue, data issue or a software defect
• Review and interpret business and technical requirements. Create functional and non-functional test cases for all levels within the scope of testing
• Develop, execute, and manage testing project plans, timelines, and dependencies
• Recommend QA process improvements or corrections throughout the methodology in order to continuously improve productivity and quality
• Install, configure automated testing tools and execute test plans using test tools
• Develop test strategies in collaboration with business users, project lead and application developers
• Publish software defect reports, and report on overall software stability at project team meetings
• Troubleshoot issues to identify root cause and transfer ownership of the issues to appropriate owners and drive complex issues to resolution with no or minimal supervision
• Develop and document testing processes and procedures

Supervisory Responsibilities:

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related fields.

Experience

• Experience with bug tracking systems
• Experience with UML diagrams and design tools such as Rational Rose or Visio
• 2+ Programming experience in any one of the following - C++, C#, ASP.Net, Java. JSP, Scripting
• Proficient in testing methodologies
• 2+ years of experience in software development
• 2+ Experience developing automated tests and tests frameworks with common commercial testing tools including LoadRunner, Rational Functional Tester, SilkTest, and/or Junit
• Experience testing multi-tiered web-based applications
• Experience working in an off-shore environment a plus
• 2+ years of experience in developing and executing test scenarios
• Experience with application servers (JBOSS, Web sphere) and relational databases (SQL Server, Oracle)

Other Qualifications

• Ability to be flexible and work analytically in a problem-solving environment
• Experience participating in all aspects of a full-lifecycle development methodology and related quality concepts and processes
• Proven ability to work independently and as a team member
• Excellent trouble shooting and debugging skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organizational, multi-tasking and time management skills
• Good technical documentation skills

Competencies

Additional Requirements

The information provided here is only a general guide as to the nature of the position and does not constitute an exact description of the goals, tasks, duties and responsibilities of the position. The specific details of each position are described in the employee’s performance evaluation.