Lead QA Tester; Quality Center​/ALM

Trigyn's direct government client has an immediate need for Lead QA Tester in Albany, NY.

• Operate under the direction of ITS staff.
• Provide guidelines, reviews, and support to developers and business analysts by creating functional tests to test applications built by developers.
• Perform testing activities, including UI automation, integration testing, and functional testing.
• Develop test cases per the Business Rules to perform or direct others on testing requirements.
• Review and provide guidance on the test scope and output of testers performing testing.
• Facilitate, record and capture information from demos and user experience sessions.
• Create status reporting mechanisms to monitor the status of the above activities.
• Host integration discussions with representatives of all test teams, identify and help resolve roadblocks.
• Ensure that requirements and deliverables are verified and validated at each testing phase and final acceptance.
• Prepare test protocols and reports which meet regulatory requirements during the final test cycle.
• Help keep test processes streamlined for efficiency.
• Be the primary advocate for the adoption of methodologies which are appropriate for the project.
• Use Microsoft Office tools for testing activities and communications with team members and management.

• Conduct automated and manual tests to ensure that the software created/upgraded performs as necessary and meets the user requirements.
• Develop and maintain user and technical documentation and project process documentation for application teams.
• Understand the view of applications and/or technology and be able to put procedures in a logical sequence.
• Provide guidance to large teams and have extensive industry experience and be considered at the top of the field.
• 84 months experience with detailed team leadership responsibilities as the lead project tester working on highly technical projects requiring over five thousand hours of resource time.
• 84 months experience planning, designing, developing, and executing test plans based on business requirements and functional specifications.
• 84 months experience coordinating, tracking, and analyzing testing activities.
• 84 months experience creating test plans to be used by business application owners (client agencies) and managing User Acceptance Testing activities performed by the application users.
• 84 months experience using functional test tools to execute automated tests. Example would be Open Text. Experience must include the design, build, coding, and execution of automated test functions.
• 84 months experience using Micro Focus ALM (formerly known as HP Application Lifecycle Management/Quality Center).
• 84 months experience recording and customizing automated functional tests.
• 84 months experience creating SQL queries to validate correct back-end processing.
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science.

TRIGYN Technologies, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.