QA Tester

Strategic Staffing Solutions; St. Louis (MO); Hybrid; USD 34,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Staffing Solutions, Inc. is seeking a QA Tester to join our hybrid team in St. Louis, MO on a 12-month contract.

The role focuses on manual testing, validating business rules, data flows, and customer journeys across digital channels. You will work within an Agile product team, crafting test cases and executing them across multiple releases. Responsibilities include defect documentation, collaboration with developers and analysts, and ensuring release readiness through end-to-end

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on manual software testing or QA experience.
• Experience creating and executing manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience with functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Experience testing applications against requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting, tracking, retesting, and closing software defects.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum product delivery environment.
• Hands on experience with Zephyr Scale, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and designs to determine test coverage.
• Develop and execute detailed manual test cases and scenarios.
• Perform various testing types including functional, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative tests.
• Validate data flows, business rules, and customer journeys.
• Identify test data needs and maintain reusable regression test suites.
• Communicate testing progress, results, risks, and release-readiness.

Skills

Manual testing

Agile/Scrum

Test case design

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Zephyr Scale

SharePoint

Job description

QA Tester

Location: St. Louis, MO (Hybrid)
Duration: 12 Month Contract

Key Responsibilities:

Manual Test Planning & Execution

• Review business requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution designs to determine appropriate test coverage.
• Develop and execute detailed manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Validate business rules, application behavior, data flows, and customer journeys.
• Identify and prepare appropriate test data and test conditions.
• Maintain reusable manual regression test suites for assigned products.
• Clearly communicate testing progress, results, risks, and release-readiness concerns.

Defect Management

• Identify, document, and track application defects through resolution.
• Create clear defect documentation, including steps to reproduce, expected versus actual results, and supporting evidence.
• Partner with developers, Business Analysts, Product Owners, and vendors to reproduce and troubleshoot defects.
• Retest resolved defects and perform appropriate regression testing.
• Distinguish application defects from requirements gaps, data issues, configuration issues, and expected system behavior.

End-to-End Digital Testing

• Manually validate complete customer and co-worker journeys across applicable digital channels.
• Test interactions and data flows across multiple applications and system integration points.
• Validate positive, negative, boundary, and exception scenarios rather than testing only the expected "happy path."
• Identify inconsistencies in functionality, business rules, content, navigation, or customer experience.
• Validate that changes to one area of a digital experience do not negatively affect existing functionality.

Agile Product Delivery

• Work as an embedded member of an Agile product team.
• Participate in refinement, planning, demonstrations, and other applicable team activities.
• Review requirements and acceptance criteria early to identify gaps, ambiguity, or scenarios requiring additional clarification.
• Partner with Product Owners and Business Analysts to ensure requirements are clear and testable.
• Coordinate testing activities with development and release schedules.
• Support production release validation and post-deployment testing.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on manual software testing or QA experience preferred.
• Demonstrated experience creating and executing manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Experience with functional, system, integration, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.
• Experience testing applications against business requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience documenting, tracking, retesting, and closing software defects.
• Experience working within an Agile/Scrum product delivery environment.
• Hands on experience with Zephyr Scale, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify unexpected system behavior and edge cases.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage testing priorities, and clearly communicate quality risks.