QA Analyst Major University

CNA Search; South Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Quality Analyst to join their dynamic team. This role involves gathering requirements, developing test cases, and ensuring the quality of systems through effective testing strategies. You will collaborate closely with project managers and team members to facilitate integrated testing and report metrics, while also automating testing processes to enhance efficiency. If you have a passion for quality assurance and a strong background in testing methodologies, this opportunity offers a chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking organization.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in business requirement gathering and system testing.
• Strong knowledge of HP Quality Center and Agile development methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Gather system requirements and document them effectively.
• Design test plans and facilitate integrated testing for business solutions.

Skills

Business Requirement Gathering

System Testing

Agile Development

Automated Testing

Manual Testing

Data Validation

Test Case Development

Test Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

HP Quality Center

Cypress

Microsoft Office Suite

Microsoft SQL Server

Cross Browser Testing Tools

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

Quality Analyst

Location: MD or can be remote

The QA performs requirements gathering, to develop test cases, scenarios and scripts and coordinates and manages and reports metrics on testing events. Member of a team that is responsible to support, maintain and enhance the systems supported as well as to implement new systems. The team formalizes the requirements gathering process as well as test-driven development process, automates testing and identifies the tools that would make this process more efficient

• Works primarily with HP Quality Center, Panaya Testing Tools, Microsoft Office Suite, JIRA, and Confluence tools
• Performs system requirements gathering and documentation
• Collaborates with other Analysts and team members

• Works closely with project managers and project team to provide testing timelines and status
• Creates test strategy based on the analysis of design document and requirements
• Designs test plans for projects and work with project teams and business partners to obtain approval
• Facilitates integrated testing of business solutions. Creates test plans, coordinate testing, data validation sessions and conduct unit and functional testing. Ensures that requirements, design and testing documentation meet department standards
• Generates test scripts and perform test analysis. Test scripts will be manual or automated.
• Facilitates data governance to ensure responsibilities for content owners are clearly defined and communicated. Work with vendors to resolve problems, as needed
• Reports test results and metrics to management and team in timely matter

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree required. Additional experience may be substituted for education
• At least 5 or more years of business requirement gathering experience and/or hands-on experience with system / integration / user acceptance testing (automated and manual) knowledge of and experience working in the Agile development and requirement gathering team(s)
• Knowledge of and experience using HP Quality Center or Cypress
• Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Knowledge of and experience using Microsoft SQL Server
• Knowledge of and experience using Cross Browser Testing tools