Quality Assurance Analyst Ii - Automation

Overview:  Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) is a diversified information management company that for nearly half a century has given market leaders a competitive edge in data management, analytics, and technology.  We are seeking a Quality Assurance Analyst II to join the MSA's Life Sciences division the help expand our mobile portfolio for the Health and Fitness communities.

The individual will be responsible for establishing and automating Quality Assurance and compliance processes for web applications, mobile applications, and other projects within the division. You work with development, testing, and product teams to create, publish, and implement software Quality Assurance plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications. You will also conduct test planning, writing test cases/scripts, manual testing as needed, test case automation, and test execution. Finally, this individual defines and tracks Quality Assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results, and test status.

Responsibilities

• Build an automated testing platform for both web and mobile products: the ability to envision and create scripts for automated app testing is essential to this position
• Analyze system and business process requirements and design test strategies, test plans, and test cases to ensure test coverage
• Execute manual and automated tests at all test phases to verify application readiness for production implementation
• Work with the project team to ensure quality throughout the product lifecycle, including reviewing specifications and identifying and resolving software defects
• Validate developer-implemented resolutions to defects
• Configure and manage test environments for software testing
• Perform continuous risk identification with appropriate escalation
• Identify, track, and report effective Quality metrics

Required Skills:

• Requires a four-year technical degree or equivalent experience
• Minimum two years related work experience in Software Quality Assurance testing and analysis including experience with automated testing
• Experience in automation and testing GUI applications (web and mobile), Javascript, and backend database functionality
• Experience defining test strategies, test plans, comprehensive test cases, and scripts
• Experience with all types of testing: Functional, System, Integration, Regression, Exploratory, Negative
• Ability to analyze requirements and ability to elicit additional information concerning requirements from stakeholders
• Excellent communication, project management, interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work in both Waterfall and Agile environments
• Ability to utilize automation testing tools, preferably Test-Complete, Selenium
• Experience in mobile test automation using Appium 
• Experience or working knowledge of object-oriented programming (C++/C#/Java), is a plus
• Performance and security testing experience is a plus.
• HL7 Interface testing and data migration testing experience is a plus
• Hybrid in-office and remote work with majority of time being remote.  Candidates must currently live in the Pittsburgh, PA region or be willing to relocate due to occasional in-office work

Management Science Associates, Inc. (MSA) is a diversified, dynamic and growing information management company that for over sixty years has partnered with institutional and commercial customers to identify areas in which innovative analytics, data and technology deliver incremental growth and drive efficiency. We have a rich legacy of being first to market, consultative partners, and serial innovators at heart.  We're proud to say that we even won an Emmy!

Our products and solutions are utilized across dozens of industries including Consumer Packaged Goods, Media, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, Metals and Advanced Manufacturing, Casino Gaming, Medical Cannabis, Internet Applications and Data Center/Co-location Services.  Our client partners range in size with many being some of the largest, well-known corporations in the world.

MSA has distinguished itself as an employer of choice in the high technology software and information management industry.  We actively recruit talented graduates and experienced professionals looking for a rewarding career at a company that recognizes employees as their best asset. MSA continuously seeks talent within our business practices: Business Analysis, Information Management Solutions, Media, Life Sciences, Metals & Advanced Manufacturing, Information Technology Systems and Services, and Corporate Information Systems.

MSA employs more than 500 people, working across the United States and world-wide. We have three offices in the Pittsburgh area along with offices in United Kingdom and Malaysia.

We hope you will consider joining our team and become part of our continued growth and success.