QA Tester

Randstad USA; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 62,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad USA is seeking a QA Tester in St. Louis, Missouri for a long-term contract. The role focuses on manual test planning and execution across digital workflows, ensuring quality through comprehensive testing and clear defect documentation.

Responsibilities include end-to-end testing, agile teamwork, and collaboration with product owners and developers to validate acceptance criteria and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Prior QA/testing experience in an enterprise environment.
• Ability to analyze requirements and derive test coverage.
• Strong documentation and defect-tracking skills.

Responsibilities

• Review requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria to determine test coverage.
• Develop and execute manual test cases and test scenarios.
• Perform functional, integration, system, end-to-end, regression, exploratory, and negative testing.

Skills

Agile

Test planning

Communication

Stakeholder mgmt

Test data

Regression testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Zephyr

Confluence

Jira

Job description

job summary:

Our client is looking for a QA Tester to join their team for a long term contract position in St. Louis, Missouri.

location: St. Louis, Missouri

job type: Contract

salary: $45 - 47 per hour

work hours: 9am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

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.

qualifications:

• Previous testing experience
• Requirements analysis
• Business process analysis
• Stakeholder communications

Nice-to-have skills

• Knowledge of Zephyr, Confluence, and Jira
• Experience writing test scripts

skills:

Agile,test coverage,Confluence,data flows,Jira,SharePoint,regression test,regression testing,retesting,Agile/Scrum,Defect Management,system integration,test data,software testing,Strong attention to detail,Strong written and verbal communication,communicate,Coordinate,troubleshoot,Strong analytical and problem-solving skills,Ability to work independently,acceptance criteria,business requirements,business rules,customer journeys,customer experience,demonstrations,deployment testing,manual test cases,QA experience,risks,test scenarios,schedules,testable,solution designs,Test Planning & Execution,testing,user stories

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.

At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact [e-mail].

Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.

Previous testing experienceRequirements analysisBusiness process analysisStakeholder communicationsNice-to-have skillsKnowledge of Zephyr, Confluence, and JiraExperience writing test scripts