Quality Assurance Analyst III Job Madison area,Wisconsin USA,Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Analyst

Candidates MUST be WI residents or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting. This position can work 100% remotely (within the state of WI).

This position is for an experienced quality assurance analyst with strong hands-on testing experience to support multi-year, multi-phase project with testing throughout the project lifecycle in close collaboration with the project team. This position will conduct quality assurance (QA) testing as releases are moved to testing environments to ensure application will perform according to user requirements. Collaborates with the project team to identify and implement appropriate improvements and ensures code adheres to organizational standards.

This individual should have strong, demonstrated hands-on understanding of quality assurance testing concepts, practices, and procedures. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer service are expected.

This position should be able to work independently while taking direction from project leads. A demonstrated ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application functionality is a plus. This individual should have strong attention to detail, collaborative mindset, and commitment to teamwork.

The individual in this position will:

Create, maintain, and update testing documentation to ensure all scenarios and requirements are covered in the testing process.

Create test scenarios, test plans, test reports, and track the life cycle of defects.

Have strong, holistic knowledge of the overall quality assurance/testing process.

Ensure developed solutions perform according to documented user requirements.

Be familiar with industry standard automation testing suites, including regression testing.

Demonstrate knowledge and prior use of testing tools and how they interact with applications used for management of bugs, issues, testing, design and development.

Remain adaptable and flexible when working with multiple clients with varying degrees of knowledge and ability/availability to participate.

Identify and propose improvements, corrections, or mitigation strategies for risks and opportunities, independently or collaboratively with the team.

Write SQL queries on SQL Server in order to verify data integrity, validate data manipulation operations, and troubleshoot issues.

Bring experience with the full software development lifecycle and related project management activities.

Top 3-4 desired skills required for the position:

Demonstrated experience in developing test cases and plans to ensure applications function according to user requirements.

Exceptional attention to detail for quality assurance testing and supporting testing efforts throughout the software development lifecycle.

Experience working on an application development team within a complex organization to conduct high-quality testing following industry standard techniques

Very strong experience writing SQL queries on SQL Server.

Qualifications:

Quality assurance testing
Experience writing SQL queries
Experience with quality assurance methodologies and testing techniques.
Familiarity with test-driven design principles and regression testing
Knowledge of system development lifecycle and key deliverables
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Develop and implement quality assurance process and procedures.
Experience in technical writing and documentation
Experience with TFS and/or Git Hub
Experience with Jira
Post-production application support