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Form of work Job Description:
Knowledge:
- Requirements analysis and review.
- Execute test plans to ensure that all objectives are met.
- Write and update (manual) test scripts.
- Securing and maintaining repeatable test data.
- Attend daily meetings with team members to discuss progress.
- Assist with application design and acceptance criteria solicitation as necessary.
- Coordinate application deployments with development teams.
- Test applications and verify functionality in accordance with published requirements, test cases, procedures, and user stories.
- Facilitate test review sessions as needed to execute integrated and system testing activities.
- Creates and owns the development and maintenance of the test strategy/plan on projects of all sizes and complexities with minimal guidance.
- Understands the individual components of the system and how they interact with one another.
- Self-starter that is able to anticipate the next steps in the design and development of the test strategy.
- Understanding the boundaries of the system and validating the impact of various processes on the system produces desired results.
- Communicate and document test results to involved parties and work with stakeholders to ensure applications are being developed as expected.
- Escalates issues and risks to project leadership in accordance with best practices.
- Work closely with developers and business analysts to ensure product requirements are met.
- Ensure quality assurance procedures meet ABC/ITSD established development and testing standards.
- Ensure tasks identified in the master test and quality assurance plans are executed in accordance with defined standards.
- Maintain project documentation.
- Provides detailed communication that is both respectful and transparent with management and peers.
- Exhibits openness to others' views.
- Works independently and with others while managing multiple assignments.
- Maintains study program to enhance QA skills and knowledge of new technologies.
- Strong time management skills.
- Ensures that the test strategy/plan is executed based on the design and within agreed-upon timeframes.
- Identifies and allocates tasks to the QA team on the project.
- Establishes standards and norms for the QA team on the project.
- Defines and ensures the quality, completeness, and timeliness of all deliverables generated by the quality assurance team on the project.
- Ensures professional interactions of the QA team with key stakeholders.
- Manages the testing portion of the requirements traceability matrix.
- Assists analysts on the team in completing tasks and resolving testing-related issues.
- Partners with Project Manager to remove impediments to analysis team activities.
- Resolves conflicts between members of the analysis team and any other resource(s) or stakeholder(s) on the project.
- Facilitates and participates in peer reviews.
- Represents the QA team in project meetings.
- Reports on the status of analysis team activities to the project manager/coordinator and QA supervisor on a weekly basis.
- Required Education, Experience, Licensure, and Certification.
- Bachelor's Degree from a college or university with coursework in information systems or computer.
- science; from a community college or equivalent with coursework in information systems or computer.
- programming; or with acceptable work experience in information systems.
- Certification in Quality.
- Assurance Software Testing (CTFL, etc), is preferred.
Knowledge:
- Extensive knowledge of software testing and maintaining documented quality assurance processes.
- Knowledge of industry web and client-server testing best practices and quality assurance methodologies.
- Knowledge of the Rational Unified Process, Software Engineering Institutes (SEI) Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), and ISO standards.
- Strong knowledge of SQL database systems and techniques.
- Knowledge of fundamental quality assurance concepts, practices, and procedures of a particular field of specialization.
- Experience with Jira and Zephyr.
- Experience with Microsoft Office.
- Variety of testing experiences such as integration, smoke, interface, regression, performance, and functional testing.
