RQ08378 - Systems Testing/QA Specialist - Senior

Responsibilities:

1. Lead and contribute to the development of test strategy, preparation of test cases and scenarios, test scripts, regression test cases and scenarios required to verify solutions and systems, and testing summary reporting at the end of testing cycles.
2. Manage and schedule all test activities including test case development, DevOps maintenance activities, AODA, and stress/load testing.
3. Lead the team and participate in the execution of test cases and scripts to verify solutions. Reconcile, manage, record, and track system or functional defects, break/fixes identified during unit, system, functional, business, and user acceptance testing.

Assignment Deliverables:

• Review functional and design specifications to ensure full understanding of individual deliverables.
• Identify test requirements from specifications, map test case requirements, and design test coverage plan.
• Identify any potential quality issues per defined process and escalate potential quality issues to management.
• Develop, document, and maintain functional, system, and UAT test cases and other test artifacts like the test plans, test scripts, test data, test summary reports, and data validation.
• Supervise and participate in the execution of manual test cases and report test results. Oversee the documentation of software defects and track resolution, communicating defect-related issues to the project team.
• Development of test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate the functionality of various modules.
• Ability to create test plans, test cases, and test scripts to validate changes made to the application.
• Support User Acceptance Testing and lead initial UAT sessions, providing guidance to the business users during UAT.
• Review user documentation and provide feedback to improve application alignment and clarity of the information.
• Management and maintenance of defect log and communication of defect-related issues to the project manager and project team.
• Work closely with QA teams, business resources, and vendor resources holding or supporting triage sessions to ensure appropriate logging, tracking, monitoring, prioritization, and remediation of defects.
• Prepare test data sets that mimic real-world scenarios, ensuring the data covers a wide range of cases and scenarios.
• Ability to create and execute database queries to extract relevant data.
• Execute and evaluate manual/automated test cases and report test results.
• Hold, facilitate, or support test plan/test case reviews with cross-functional team members.

Experience and Skillset Requirements:

Mandatory Requirements:

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change requests, and communicating status to all project participants.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms, preferably Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience coordinating testing activities with project managers and other team members.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, organizational, creativity, perseverance, verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.

Desired Skills and Experience:

• Experience in planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level.
• Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation, and maintenance of applications.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms, like Microsoft DevOps.
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems-level integration tests.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools, and structured methodologies.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines, with the ability to shift priorities quickly and effectively when needed.

Must have:

• 8+ years of demonstrated QA experience, including leading QA teams, defect tracking using a collaborative tool to manage defects and change requests, and communicating status to all project participants.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of version control systems on one or more platforms, preferably Microsoft DevOps.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, decision-making, organizational, creativity, perseverance, verbal and written communication, and interpersonal skills.