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Form of workTitle: Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Duration: 36 Months
Interview: In-Person
Job Description:
Client seeks one (1) Senior Quality Assurance Analyst ("QA Analyst") to work with the Information Technology (IT) Division for a period up to 36 months. Client reserves the right to hire the candidate(s) as an employee, after a period of six (6) months. The QA Analyst will primarily perform functional manual testing and automated testing of the new Pension Administration system. The Analyst will need to support the testing of all the data bridging scenarios that will be adopted in the course of the transition from legacy system to new pension administration system. The Analyst will also be involved in the testing of legacy system as functionality is being retired and decommissioned. Responsibilities will also include requirement/user story review, identify testing requirements from specifications and acceptance criteria, build and execute test scenarios and test scripts, analyze test results, facilitate test case and user story reviews with cross-functional team members and external QA vendor and System Integration vendor, facilitate discussions on defects identified, report and track all defects, and verify fixes in test environment.
Mandatory:
Candidates must meet all the requirements below to be considered for the Quality Assurance Analyst position:
- Minimum of 7 years of QA Analyst experience with at least 2 years of recent experience as a Senior QA Analyst testing workflow processing, evaluating business rules, data quality, internet applications with expertise in Agile, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies. The candidate must have a certain level of business acumen coupled with technical knowledge.
- Experience in preparing effort estimations and conduct all aspects of testing; STLC, functional, regression, access privileges and System performance and certify the release of workflows into UAT.
- Experience defining project scope and technical specifications, set clear goals and expectations, prioritize activities, facilitate the collection of technical, operational or business requirements, set milestones and follow through to successful completion.
- Experience in multi-tasking multiple priorities
- Experience presenting projects to upper management and the ability to present complex ideas clearly and persuasively
- Ability to simulate and execute integrated and isolated tests to analyze results, leveraging CRUD operations on large volumes of raw data using SQL.
- Experience with Functional test Automation tools
- Ability to use MS-Office specifically Microsoft Word, Project, Excel, Visio & PowerPoint.
- JIRA, Zephyr or similar test Management tools
- Strong documentation skills in software defects or program functions and tracking resolutions.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including negotiation, problem resolution and customer service.
- Must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills including the ability to communicate effectively with people regardless of their technical skill set.
Preferred:
Experience testing complex enterprise applications involving Legacy systems
Experience with Workflow systems
Experience in legacy system migration projects
Experience in Public Pension Systems.
Experience working in major multi-year projects
Experience testing CRM systems like Salesforce, MS Dynamics
Experience with Load Test and Performance Tools like Load Runner, JMeter
Experience of Mobile Testing tools like Appium, Test Grid
Good knowledge of automation test scripting
Certification as Certified Software Test Professional (CSTP) or Certified Software Quality Analyst (CSQA), or Certified Associate in Software Quality (CASQ) or ISTQB certified as CTFL (Foundation Level) or CTAL (Advanced Level) or CTEL (Expert Level).
