Senior QA Analyst

estaffing Inc; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Staffing firm estaffing Inc. seeks a Senior QA Analyst for a 1-year contract with remote/hybrid options in the Atlanta area. The role focuses on QA, UAT leadership, and business analysis across systems, data, and reporting solutions to ensure regulatory and business requirements are met.

You will develop test strategies, create and execute test scripts, manage defects, and collaborate with stakeholders, BSOs, SMEs, vendors, and testing teams to ensure release readiness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor-level degree in a related field or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years in QA/UAT/BA on enterprise systems.
• 3+ years in test automation and automation strategy development.
• Experience writing test strategies, cases, scripts and executing tests.
• Ability to translate requirements into testable scenarios.
• Experience with data quality validation across enterprise apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and perform UAT activities and verify readiness for releases.
• Capture, analyze, and refine business requirements with stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain test plans, scenarios, and scripts.
• Coordinate with vendors and internal teams to align testing efforts.
• Track defects through resolution and report progress to leadership.
• Automate regression tests to improve coverage and efficiency.
• Review designs and interfaces to ensure test coverage and risk mitigation.

Skills

Quality Assurance

User Acceptance Testing

Business Analysis

Test Automation

Requirements Management

Data Validation

Regression Testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field; or equivalent

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Smartsheet

Power BI

Power Automate

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

TestComplete

UFT

Job description

Job Title: Senior QA Analyst

Job Type: Contract-Remote/Hybrid

Location: Atlanta, GA 30334

Job Duration: 1 year + Extension

Job Description:

This position serves as a senior-level quality and business analysis resource responsible for ensuring systems, data, integrations, reporting solutions, and business processes meet business requirements, Federal/State policy standards, and operational expectations. This role bridges the gap between business stakeholders, SMEs, Business System Owners (BSOs), developers, vendors, and testing teams to ensure successful solution delivery and release readiness.

The ideal candidate is a highly skilled and versatile professional with strong expertise in manual and automated testing, test strategy development, regression suite optimization, defect management, business process analysis, and requirements management. This role requires the ability to operate both strategically and hands-on, shifting between UAT leadership responsibilities and Business Analyst functions based on project and operational needs.

Job Responsibilities

• Participate in Joint Application Requirements (JAR) and Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions for assigned Change Requests (CRs) and Maintenance & Operations (M&O) initiatives to support requirements gathering, solution validation, and testing readiness.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders, Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), Business System Owners (BSOs), vendors, technical teams, and project managers to analyze, document, refine, and validate business and functional requirements.
• Serve as an individual contributor performing both Business Analyst and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) responsibilities based on project, operational, and organizational needs.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive UAT strategies, test plans, test scenarios, and testing approaches aligned with business objectives, operational priorities, regulatory requirements, and project timelines.
• Review business requirements, functional specifications, system designs, interface documentation, and business workflows to ensure complete and risk-based test coverage.
• Create, execute, and maintain manual and automated test scripts for functional, integration, regression, end-to-end, data validation, and user acceptance testing activities.
• Lead and coordinate UAT activities across assigned projects, including test execution, issue tracking, test evidence documentation, business validation, and release readiness support.
• Partner with vendors responsible for Unit Testing and System Integration Testing (SIT) to improve testing alignment, strengthen overall quality coverage, and reduce duplicate testing efforts between SIT and UAT processes.
• Collaborate with project managers, testing teams, business users, and external partners to manage testing timelines, dependencies, risks, deliverables, and implementation of readiness activities.
• Facilitate requirements of walkthroughs, knowledge-sharing sessions, and testing reviews to ensure a clear understanding of business expectations, system functionality, and testing objectives.
• Manage the full defect lifecycle including defect identification, logging, triage, prioritization, escalation, retesting, resolution validation, and status reporting utilizing approved enterprise testing and defect management tools.
• Track, analyze, and communicate testing metrics, execution progress, defect trends, test coverage, quality risks, and UAT results to leadership, stakeholders, and project teams.
• Analyze, review, refine, and enhance existing regression test suites to improve testing efficiency, business-process validation, and overall regression coverage across CAPS systems.
• Lead test automation initiatives by developing automation strategies, identifying automation opportunities, recommending appropriate frameworks and tools, and implementing automated regression testing solutions to reduce manual testing effort and improve quality outcomes.
• Support post-implementation validation, production issue analysis, continuous process improvement initiatives, QA/UAT best practices, and additional CAPS Program Administration activities as assigned.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in Quality Assurance (QA), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and/or Business Analysis roles supporting enterprise systems.
• Minimum of three (3) years of experience in test automation, including automation strategy development and transitioning manual testing processes into automated solutions.
• Strong experience developing test strategies, test cases, test scripts, and executing functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and UAT testing.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing business and functional requirements, developing use cases, and translating business needs into testable scenarios.
• Experience in performing data quality validation, data reconciliation, and testing across enterprise applications, interfaces, and reporting solutions.
• Hands-on experience with QA and test management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or similar platforms.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, TestComplete, Power Automate, UFT, or similar technologies.
• Experience working with Microsoft reporting and analytics tools including Power BI and/or Microsoft Fabric.
• Proven ability to work independently as a senior-level individual contributor while effectively collaborating with business users, internal teams, external partners, and vendors in a cross-functional environment.

Preferred

• Experience working with data systems and automated business processes.
• Experience creating or using systems for automated testing.
• Experience organizing and analyzing data to inform decision making.
• Knowledge of Georgia Gateway Integrated Eligibility System.
• Knowledge of system development and configuration.
• Advanced skills in Excel and other Microsoft Office applications.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Familiarity with data warehousing, ETL processes, or data pipelines