Senior QA Analyst - Automation & End-to-End Testing

PDS Inc.; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

PDSINC, LLC is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to own end-to-end test planning, execution, and defect management across functional, performance, and integration testing. The role emphasizes automation, data validation, and cross-system compatibility in a Phoenix-based team.

You will collaborate with project staff to design test environments, write test scripts, and document results, ensuring software quality that meets business goals and regulatory standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of manual QA experience.
• 5+ years of manual QA Automation experience.
• Agile delivery methodologies (e.g., SCRUM).
• Possess a thorough understanding of testing N-Tier systems and test processes.
• ISEB/ISTQB testing foundation accreditation.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of the test team during the test analysis and design, test build and test execution phases of one or more test levels
• Support the Quality Manager in planning new work items and projects.
• Evaluate the system to determine what tests are required to achieve the objectives of the respective test level; referring to a variety of sources including specification and design documents; earlier versions of the system; system suppliers and potential owners or users of the system.
• Analyze a system to identify and prioritize test requirements that will validate that the system will behave as required in its intended environment.
• Map identified test requirements back to the overall business requirements.
• Specify the test environments and data necessary to fulfil the test requirements.
• Collate test requirements, test environments and data specifications into an overall test specification and test schedule.
• Use appropriate techniques to design test cases, test scripts and test data that will address identified test requirements and present them in an overall test design.
• Write test scripts required to execute test cases.
• Record all defects in accordance with incumbent tools and processes.
• Work with project and client staff to resolve issues that may arise from time to time throughout the test project.
• Produce all documents clearly, concisely, and unambiguously in accordance with project standards.
• Maintain and support existing software as directed.
• Exercise best efforts and known best practice to ensure that software performs accurately, efficiently, and reliably.
• Employ known patterns and best practice to ensure software is maintainable, reusable, and logically structured.
• Contribute to the continual development of the team, ways of working, tools implemented, and processes followed, value-add to be realized, new ideas or approaches, etc.
• Perform additional duties that may be required from time to time.

Skills

QA methodology

Tools & processes

SQL

API testing

Agile SCRUM

Communication

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

ISEB/ISTQB testing foundation accreditation

Job description

PDSINC, LLC is seeking a Senior QA Analyst to own end-to-end test planning, execution, and defect management across functional, performance, and integration testing. The role emphasizes automation, data validation, and cross-system compatibility in a Phoenix-based team.

You will collaborate with project staff to design test environments, write test scripts, and document results, ensuring software quality that meets business goals and regulatory standards.