Remote Senior QA Analyst - EdTech Quality & Release

TrulyHired; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 84,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Great Minds is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to own the quality of our digital platform. You will develop, maintain, and execute test plans for our digital products, and drive QA processes across agile teams.

You will collaborate with engineering and product, write test cases, log defects, run RESTful service tests, and use SQL to validate data. A Bachelor's degree and 4+ years in software testing are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
• 4+ years of software testing experience
• Experience in Agile environments
• Experience with RESTful services and SQL
• Proficiency with JIRA, Confluence and SharePoint
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Responsibilities

• Developing and executing formal test plans to ensure the delivery of quality software applications
• Involved in test planning, writing test cases/scripts, and test execution
• Documenting all defects found and assisting in their resolution
• Tracking quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status
• Working with cross-functional teams to understand business and technical requirements for new functionality to be tested
• Partnering with engineering and product early in the design process to question decisions and surface risks before development begins
• Assisting the QA Manager to evolve existing QA processes, standards, and guidelines, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices
• 4+ years experience in software development where your role was in the testing function
• Experience planning, preparing, and executing test plans, and be responsible for project release testing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Ability to identify, analyze and assist in resolving defects
• Experience working in an agile software development environment with cross-functional geographically distributed teams
• Experience with JIRA, Confluence, and SharePoint
• Experience testing RESTful Web Services and JSON messages
• Ability to write and execute SQL queries to retrieve, validate, and troubleshoot data in support of testing efforts
• Knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and Software Quality Assurance best practices
• Bachelor's degree

Skills

4+ years testing

Test planning

Agile

Analytical skills

Problem solving

SDLC knowledge

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

JIRA

Confluence

SharePoint

Job description

Great Minds is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to own the quality of our digital platform. You will develop, maintain, and execute test plans for our digital products, and drive QA processes across agile teams.

You will collaborate with engineering and product, write test cases, log defects, run RESTful service tests, and use SQL to validate data. A Bachelor's degree and 4+ years in software testing are required.