Quality Assurance Analyst

Ampcus, Inc; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology consulting firm located in Washington, DC, seeks a motivated Quality Assurance Analyst to support quality assurance testing across multi-tiered environments. The successful candidate will have a strong background of 4+ years in QA testing, with hands-on experience in client-server and web-based applications. They will collaborate with teams in developing test plans, conducting UAT, and documenting issues. This role emphasizes strong organizational and communication skills within a Scrum framework.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technology, innovation, or related field.
• 4 years of experience with hands on QA testing in client server and/or web-based environment.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes all phases of quality assurance testing.
• Creates and contributes to the creation of test plans and test scenarios.
• Documents and reports issues discovered during testing.

Skills

QA testing

JIRA/Zephyr

RDBMS (Oracle/Postgres)

Selenium

Scrum and Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology or related field

Tools

Test management tools (JIRA/Zephyr)

Automated test tools (Selenium, Soap UI)

Job description

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team. Job Title: Quality Assurance Analyst. Location: Washington, DC.

The overall purpose of position:

• Supports "AI Pod" in applying analytical and business skills to evaluate existing and identify new or enhanced systems, products and processes which advance business objectives.
• The quality assurance analyst also develops, manages, and executes all phases of quality assurance testing, including analysis of product requirements to produce test requirements, and development and execution of functional/system test plans in a multi-tiered environment.

Scope of work:

• Develops and maintains a working knowledge of business processes supported by software systems/products.
• Contributes to training programs, documents, and materials.
• Conduct and participate in test case reviews, requirement reviews, design reviews, and change control activities.
• Creates and contributes to the creation of test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test data for use during the testing phases of the software development lifecycle, for new and existing software systems/products. Ensures that test plans and scenarios fully exercise every aspect of the product.
• Produces formal test plans. leads the testing effort for assigned projects.
• Documents and reports issues discovered during testing, and reports issues to team leaders.
• Works as part of Scrum Development Team, effectively participates in sprint planning, task estimates, task sequencing, task assignments, sprint reviews and retrospectives.
• Creates test cases and performs test case execution, and reviews. Maintains automation framework.
• Executes automated test scripts for all IT environments.
• Collaborate with other team members to understand the scope of test cases that will be used for automated scripts.
• Collaborates with end users for UAT on a specific test.
• Documents and Client defects/issues during testing, and follow-up for resolution.

Qualification and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in technology, innovation, or related field of study.
• 4 years of experience with increasingly complex projects.
• 4 years of experience with hands on QA testing in client server and/or web-based environment.
• 4 years of experience with test gathering techniques.
• 4 years of experience with test management tools like JIRA/Zephyr.
• 4 years of RDBMS experience (Oracle or Postgres) and ability write queries.
• 4 years of experience developing test strategies and plans.
• 4 years of experience with metric and report creation.
• 4 years of experience with tools used for data validation and creation.
• 2 years of experience with selenium, soap ui and cucumber/ruby.
• 2 years of experience with Scrum and Agile Development Frameworks.
• Excellent organizational, interpersonal and communication skills.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.