QA Analyst

Tech Valley Talent; City of Albany (NY); Remote; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading IT services firm has an opening for a remote Junior QA Analyst. The candidate should have at least 3 years of experience and skills in test planning and automation. Responsibilities include verifying usability and data integrity, developing test plans, and working with development teams. This contract role is expected to last one year with a high possibility of extension.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in QA testing.
• Ability to analyze and evaluate automation & defect metrics.
• Create test plans and design test cases.

Responsibilities

• Verify application functionality, usability, and data integrity.
• Ensure applications meet specified requirements without defects.
• Develop and maintain reusable code for automated testing.

Skills

Excellent communication and analytical skills

Experience with JIRA and/or Selenium

HTML, JQuery and CSS experience

Understanding of relational databases

Exposure to Force.com or Azure development

Education

Computer Science degree

Tools

JIRA

Selenium

Job description

Tech Valley Talent (TVT) has a great long-term REMOTE role for a Junior QA Analyst/Tester with 3 years of experience.

Duration

DURATION : 1 year contract with good possibility of extension

Location

LOCATION : REMOTE – Position will be fully remote BUT candidates MUST reside in the continental United States. Position will start in late Nov/early Dec.

NO THIRD PARTIES – JUST W2 per client requirements

Preferred Qualifications

The scope of work to be performed by the Contractor consists of tasks listed in the following functional areas.

Tasks

• Work alongside developers to verify application functionality, usability, scalability and data integrity.
• Ensure that the applications and/or data meet the specified requirements and that there are no defects in the application or underlying data.
• Create test plans, design test cases, automate tests, provide, manage test process, and evaluate defects.
• Develop and maintain reusable code libraries to help build streamlined and efficient automated test processes.
• Analyze and evaluate automation & defect metrics, providing feedback to developers, system & data architects and analysts & subject matter experts.

Expected Deliverables

1. Test plans
2. Documented test cases
3. Automated test cases
4. Tested APEX code & Visual Force Pages (Salesforce) or tested .NET code (Azure)

The Contractor should be able to demonstrate the following skills

• Excellent communication and analytical skills to engage with business subject matter experts software development engineers
• Any software development experience or background (including Computer Science degree)
• Exposure to Force.com or Azure development
• Experience with web services (SOAP or REST)
• HTML, JQuery and CSS experience
• Understanding of relational databases
• Experience with JIRA and / or Selenium a plus

TVT is an Information Technology (IT) professional business leader providing IT services to the public sector. Our firm is founded on the values of high integrity, trust, honesty, and commitment. We take pride in providing exceptional value to our clients by supplying and delivering the best IT project-based and hourly talent across the nation. We are business partners with many technology solution providers such as IBM, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Tableau, Salesforce, and others. Tech Valley Talent provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment