IT QA Analyst I

Job Description: Skills / Experience:
Performing QA functions including participation in project team meetings to understand project requirements, preparing test plans, conducting QA testing and evaluating results, mitigating any defects found and gathering appropriate evidence for upload into systems.

Strong communication skills to present metric data to project teams and report out work activities during scrum meetings.
Required:

• 5+ years experience with Quality Assurance and Quality Control
• 3+ years of test coordination, manual, automation and performance testing tools (Client Suite of tools and/or Microsoft Test Manager/Team Foundation Server)
• Must have knowledge of testing techniques to cover all possible corner cases for testing, verification and validation techniques.
• Hands on experience on Test management tool Client Quality Center
• Proven knowledge of quality assurance and software testing methodologies SDLC and STLC in waterfall and agile
• Strong written and verbal communication must be able to clearly articulate himself/herself and be able to effectively communicate with management and customers
• Must be a team player, quick responsiveness, contributor, coordinator, cooperative, understanding, polite and adaptive to accept changes in a complex changing environment
• Must be willing to accept direction from seniors, colleagues and management

Desired but not mandatory:

• Experience in Energy or Financial industry is a plus

Role and Responsibilities:

• Assist with detailed test strategy to support both waterfall and an iterative approach (Agile/Scrum) to software development and deployment
• Assist with test life cycle management and coordination
• Assist with the writing of detailed test plans and scripts both manual and automated
• Verify / review software and business requirements
• Have responsibilities in the process of traceability of requirements through to functional tests and defect lists
• Manual and Automated Test execution and daily status reporting
• Communicate and Track any quality risks, gaps or issues
• Estimate the test effort by applying appropriate estimation techniques
• Candidate must have prior experience and expertise in being able to create, publish and communicate test metrics/reports.
• Be detail oriented, have excellent writing & verbal communication skills and possess client facing skills.

Technical Knowledge/Skills:

• Experience with Client Quality Center/ALM and Team Foundation Server - Must
• Experience with functional test automation tools: Client QTP and Selenium - Desired
• Experience with agile methodologies - Must
• Experience working in a Windows - Must
• Experience testing web and client server based applications - Must
• Experience in Oracle Database concepts and testing using SQL or other database platforms - Must
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel Must