Quality Assurance Specialist

Position

Quality Analyst (Release Testing)

Salt Lake City, UT – Onsite

Long Term Contract

• Release Readiness & Patch Testing
  • Perform comprehensive validation of release builds and patches before production deployment.
  • Verify that new features, enhancements, and fixes behave as expected across impacted modules.
  • Conduct regression testing to ensure no adverse impacts on existing workflows.
  • Validate installation/upgrade steps, configuration changes, and environment readiness.
• Non-Functional Testing
  • Validate performance, stability, recoverability, failover readiness, and system resource utilization.
  • Ensure background jobs, batch processes, interfaces, file transfers, and schedules function within expected thresholds.
  • Perform smoke and sanity checks post-deployment.
• End-to-End Operational Validation
  • Check platform jobs and schedules to ensure all batch processes run as intended.
  • Validate inbound and outbound files are dropped correctly, picked up by downstream systems, and processed without errors.
  • Monitor environment logs, queues, and file systems for anomalies.
• Coordination & Documentation
  • Collaborate closely with development, environment teams, release management, and business SMEs for smooth release cycles.
  • Maintain clear test plans, test cases, and release sign‑off documentation.
  • Provide timely defect reporting, triage support, and resolution follow‑up.
  • Support go‑live activities and post‑deployment verification.

• 6+ years of release testing experience.
• Extensive experience with software test automation tools, design methodologies, automation frameworks, platforms, and related systems.
• Experience in BaNCS.
• Proficiency in SQL and relational databases.
• Extensive experience with REST API testing (Ready
  
  API, Postman).
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem‑resolution, customer‑service, and communication skills.
• Experience with Azure Dev Ops (repos, builds, pipelines), Jenkins, Chef, XL Release, Maven.
• Experience with pipelines and containers (CI/CD).
• Experience with cloud technologies.
• Ability to make sound decisions and recommendations.

Bachelor’s Degree

EEO, ADA, FMLA compliant. VLink is an equal‑opportunity employer. We embrace diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment are based on qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.

Mid‑Senior Level

Full‑time

Information Technology

IT Services and IT Consulting;
Technology, Information and Media