Senior QA Analyst

Job title: Senior QA Analyst

Work address: 510 Lake Cook Rd, Ste 400, Deerfield, IL 60015

Telecommuting / work from home is permitted.

Duties: Responsible for interpreting Business and Functional Requirements and ensuring comprehensive test design coverage across all scenario variations. Lead requirements elicitation through Agile PI planning, KANBAN reviews, and stakeholder sessions, including analysis of existing system architectures and evolving business processes. Maintain continuous engagement with business partners to resolve dependencies and finalize end to end test scenarios. Oversee full lifecycle QA activities including regression testing, combining automated frameworks and manual validation to ensure quality with each code iteration.

Lead project initiation activities—scope definition, estimation, requirement analysis, and preparation of all test assets such as Test Cases, Test Scenarios, Traceability Matrices, and Test Data. Prepare and deliver all release level documentation, including Test Plans, Test Summary Reports, Test Closure Reports, and Sign off packages. Drive the development and enhancement of automation frameworks to support business initiatives. Partner with business stakeholders and client SMEs to expand automated coverage, ensuring automation adoption targets—such as achieving two thirds coverage of the regression suite across BAU Scrum teams—are met.

Lead the transformation of manual regression suites into fully automated pipelines. Champion continuous improvement of QA practices by identifying systemic enhancements across value streams and advocating modern testing tools, frameworks, and methodologies. Perform integration testing and API testing, and manage traceability of requirements, test cases, and defects using JIRA, Zephyr, and Confluence. Facilitate defect lifecycle management through structured defect triage meetings, retest planning, and delivery of key QA reports including DSRs, WSRs, and production defect analyses.

Identify and implement optimization opportunities by proposing strategic solutions and executing Proofs of Concept (POCs). Support automated integration and end to end testing through alignment with Dev Ops CI/CD pipelines as part of the SDLC process. Conduct tool and platform evaluations, including capability analysis, technology compatibility assessments, integration feasibility, and readiness for next generation technologies such as BOTs and AI.

Ensure alignment of toolsets with the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC). Collaborate closely with Development, Business, and QA leadership to define Dev Ops strategies, select platforms and tool chains, and establish implementation plans aligned with organizational objectives.

Minimum education and experience required: Master’s degree or the equivalent in Software Engineering or a related field plus 5 years of experience in absence management workflows, or related experience.

Skills Required: Must have experience with:
Developing and maintaining comprehensive test plans, test cases, and test scripts. Defining testing strategies for functional, regression, integration, Cross Browser Testing, Mobile testing and performance testing. Designing, developing, and maintaining automation test scripts using Selenium Web Driver (Java) for web and API testing. Validating defect fixes and performing root cause analysis for recurring issues. Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and support automation execution in AWS-based environments.

Developing and maintaining test frameworks using TestNG, JUnit, Maven, or Cucumber. Cloud platforms (AWS) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and devops (jenkis, Git Hub/Bitbucket). Logging, Tracking, and Managing defects using tools like JIRA.…