QA Analyst

On behalf of our public sector client, Affinity is looking for a QA Analyst to support testing across application functionality, integrations, data migration, reporting, performance, and deployment while working closely with business and technical stakeholders.

• Develop and maintain the overall QA strategy, testing approach, and test plans.
• Review business requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and technical designs to ensure testability.
• Create and maintain test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, and traceability matrices.
• Identify automation opportunities and develop reusable automated test suites.
• Execute manual and automated testing
  • Functional testing
  • Integration testing
  • Regression testing
  • End‑to‑end testing
  • Performance testing
  • User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Develop and maintain automated tests for APIs, integrations, and critical business processes.
• Validate integrations with enterprise systems.
• Verify
  • Data migration
  • Data synchronization
  • Interface functionality
  • Notifications
  • Reports
  • API integrations
• Support production deployment validation and post‑deployment verification.
• Record, prioritize, and track defects through resolution.
• Collaborate with developers and business stakeholders to validate fixes.
• Monitor testing progress and provide QA status reporting.
• Participate in risk identification and quality assurance activities.
• Support SIT, UAT, operational readiness, and hyper‑care.
• Prepare QA sign‑off recommendations for production deployment.
• Participate in workshops, demos, stakeholder meetings, and knowledge transfer sessions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of software QA or software testing experience.
• Experience developing
  • QA strategies
  • Test plans
  • Test cases
  • Test scenarios
  • Test scripts
• Experience designing and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Experience executing manual and automated testing across multiple testing phases.
• Experience testing enterprise integrations including
  • REST APIs
  • SOAP Web Services
  • Messaging services
  • Secure file transfers
• Experience testing Microsoft Power Platform solutions:
  • Power Apps
  • Dataverse
  • Power Automate
• Experience validating
  • Data migration
  • Data synchronization
• Experience with API testing tools such as
  • Postman
  • SoapUI
• Experience with automation tools such as
  • Selenium
  • Playwright
  • Power Apps Test Studio
  • Easy Repro
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops Test Plans, defect management, source control, and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of
  • SDLC
  • Agile methodologies
  • QA best practices
  • Risk‑based testing
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Microsoft Azure experience.
• Transportation, operations, asset management, or public sector experience.

Affinity is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.