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Position Summary:
We are seeking a talented Software Quality Assurance Analyst with a strong background in manual testing and intermediate experience in QA automation. This individual will work within our agile development team designing test procedures for some exciting software packages we are building. In this role, you will be responsible for analyzing functionality within applications and designing manual and automated test cases to validate system functionality. You will also be required to identify bugs, prep test data, and collaborate with the software design team.
The ideal candidate will be very detail-oriented and have a background building manual and automated test cases. They will have an experience working on an agile team and have a strong desire to learn new technologies and quality assurance techniques. A positive can-do attitude is a must and they would have a passion for focusing on the optimal experience for our end-users.
Job Duties and Responsibilities include:
• Create and execute manual test cases to assess the overall quality of the solutions created by the development team. The types of testing may include, but are not limited to system, regression, smoke, integration, exploratory, etc.
• Successfully translate user stories into detailed test cases which can later be evaluated for test automation.
• Creating automated tests scripts and cases
• Create test plans for an agile development project, including designing and writing clear, detail-oriented test cases.
• Responsible for prepping test data
• Requesting appropriate users account configurations for user testing
• Create and maintain testing artifacts, such as test cases, test plans, test data, etc.
• Consistently execute test cases, analyze test case results, and verify bug resolution.
• Find, report, and document bugs in a work management program, such as Jira or Azure DevOps; ensure sprint testing tasks are completed based on their targeted implementation date.
• Collaborate closely with developers to identify key areas of functionality at high-risk of failure to prioritize testing so that critical bugs may be found more quickly.
• Work closely with the cross-functional agile team to define acceptance criteria in user stories and to estimate story points.
• Work with the business users and project team to understand the stakeholder requirements and the software design to execute test cases that appropriately exercise that design.
• Must be familiar with Software Quality Assurance methodologies and be able to clearly communicate those concepts to team members.
Skills and Competencies:
• Excellent interpersonal communication and facilitation skills and proven ability to work with diverse personality types
• Experience staging data for test cycles
• Proficient knowledge of test management software such as Cypress (preferred), Selenium, etc.
• Proficient at writing SQL queries
• Understanding of software development life cycles
• Exceptional communication skills required, both written and verbal
• Intermediate knowledge of C# or Java preferred to facilitate the creation and support of automated testing
Required Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's degree (Computer Engineering or Computer Science preferred) or equivalent combination of education/experience
• Preferred experience with one or more Agile tools (VSTS, Jira, Version One) and agile frameworks (Kanban, Scrum, Lean etc.)
• Minimum 3-5 years' experience in a QA Testing Analyst role, defining requirements and objectives for complex projects through research, interviews, and fact-finding
• Minimum 5 years of experience working in an IT-related project/program
• Experience with cloud-hosted technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Experience with testing in a variety of environments, such as browser and mobile
Work Location: Remote
Travel Requirement:
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Rising Phoenix Holdings Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer.