- The Quality Assurance Analyst will work on an agile team conducting testing (manual and automated), developing automated tests which includes writing code, other test scripting, and integration of tests into the CICD pipeline. This individual will work in a rapid, iterative environment with short feedback loops, and a focus on testing efficiencies and ensuring that software developed will address the organization’s business need or problem as defined in user stories and in adherence to the defined acceptance criteria.
- Contribute to the team’s effectiveness and efficiency by defining, designing, and executing tests in support of the agile development process.
- Drive testing mindset on agile team and support developers in their creation of efficient and comprehensive automated unit and integration tests.
- Partner with developers to improve and automate test processes.
- Participates in code reviews to clarify requirements, validate test cases, and provide feedback to the development team.
- Design test scenarios, acceptance criteria (using gherkin) and test data.
- Conduct exploratory testing and other manual testing as needed leveraging critical thinking and product knowledge to find issues rapidly.
- Configure and maintain tooling for testing, coverage, and reporting.
- Report on and maintain test results.
- Identify and track defects; work with developers and business analysts to identify, isolate and resolve issues.
- 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.
- Provide end user support for production technology solutions. May include creation and execution of SQL database queries.
Qualifications:
8 years of experience as a Quality Assurance Specialist
Technical Knowledge Requirements:
- Object-oriented design, development, and implementation of business applications in current computing architectures.
- .NET or .NET Core using C#
- WPF desktop applications.
- WCF and REST APIs
- SQL, SSIS
- Experience in test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Ready API and other resources.
- Azure Service Bus
Soft Skills:
- Excellent analytical ability and communication skills, strong judgment, and the ability to work effectively with business personnel and IS management and staff.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to successfully deploy new processes across the IS organization.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, or relatedsubject area; or equivalent work experience and training.