Senior Quality Assurance FQA

Synergy Business Innovation & Solutions is a premier implementer of cutting-edge software solutions. Synergy brings the experience and expertise necessary to deliver capability that provides tangible ROI to our customers. Our core areas of expertise are in the fields of Digital Transformation, Cloud Solutions, SaaS and Low-Code/No-Code Solutions, Emerging Technologies, Data Analytics and Visualization, Information Assurance, and Business Process Re-Engineering.

Synergy offers its employees a generous portfolio of core and voluntary benefits including: group medical, dental, and vision insurance, company paid life, short-term, and long-term disability insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k) with company match, PTO & Bonus Leave, 11 paid federal holidays, parental leave, tuition and training reimbursement, a referral bonus program, and well-being programs.

At Synergy, you’ll be challenged and given the opportunity to grow in your career path. In fact, growth is such a big deal to us that we have career mentors available for every employee, company-funded certification opportunities, education reimbursement, and a general open-door policy so that you have support when you need it. Our team is eager to learn, fast-paced, and quality-driven.

If that sounds like you, Synergy has a position for you!

• Synergy is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer candidate for a growing government client. As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will be performing for functional testing and Integration Tests via a server-based application User Interface. The right candidate will have a working knowledge of software engineering concepts such as software development standards, quality assurance standards, and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
  
  As a Quality Assurance Engineer you will be able to interpret requirements, develop test plans and test cases, and test software functionality. The role would ensure quality in the product development and participate in client engagements, along with improving product quality assurance practices and supporting business development activities.

• Expert Software Quality Assurance Analyst.
• Provides technical leadership to junior QA analysts.
• Expert with testing tools and methodologies.
• Meeting with the software/product designers to determine quality assurance parameters.
• Defines test plan development guidelines, testing strategies and procedures.
• Exercises extensive professional experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals.
• Reports to a program or project manager.
• Typically requires a bachelor's degree in a technical field and over 7 years experience in the field.
• Ensuring the successful deployment of products into production with minimal deficiencies.
• Responding to requests from the design team and management.

• Proven experience in black box manual testing of web applications with UIs.
• Proven experience with functional, system, regression, and integration testing.
• Proven experience developing test cases from user stories.
• Ability to execute and read complex SQL queries.
• Ability to analyze a product for accurate Integration test scenarios.
• High-level analytical skills and a high level of attention to detail.
• Critical thinker.
• Proven experience with test management tools.
• Experience with a variety of SDLC and Agile methodologies required.
• Experience in white box testing of RESTful APIs, SOAP APIs, and/or web services.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to multi-task under tight deadlines and report status.
• Ability to document QA procedures for the team.
• Ability to validate the deployment of software releases.
• Proven experience in test planning (including data planning), test scheduling, and test evaluation.
• Management of defects within a corporate defect tracking system.
• Ability to obtain Security + Certification, if necessary.
• Ability to work in cross-functional teams including New Development and Production Support for field level incidents.

• Experience with Linux, JBoss, Docker/Open Shift and Appian.
• Coordination and prioritization of test development activities and the ability to work with multiple teams are also critical for the selected candidate. Candidate must have the ability to troubleshoot independently both software and operating system level installation and configuration issues.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cyber Security, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Information…