Software Methods, Incorporated · 7 hours ago
Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
King of Prussia, PA
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
7+ years expSoftware Methods is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst for a 12+ month contract assignment. The Quality Analyst will be responsible for test planning, monitoring, analysis, implementation, execution, and closure, ensuring compliance with the client’s software testing standards and policies.
ConsultingInformation TechnologySoftware
No H1B
Hiring Manager
Abbe Goldberg
Responsibilities
Test planning: define the overall strategic and tactical objectives for testing software changes at different test levels. Work with developers, project managers and business customers to define the strategy to be used, such as risk-based testing. Test levels include component testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing. Test types include functional testing, non-functional testing, structural ("white-box") testing, confirmation testing and regression testing
Test monitoring and control: continuously compare test progress with the plan, adjust the plan and testing activities as necessary, and provide status reports
Test analysis and design: transform testing objectives into test conditions and test cases. The test basis includes documented requirements, system architecture, behavior and structure of the software, existing data and data flows. Using structural ("white-box") test techniques, among others, design tests, or provide input into test design by identifying specific test conditions and high-level test cases
Test implementation and test execution: develop and prioritize test procedures, set up the test environment and test data, and execute tests. Test changes to the database components of the system under test. Testable components include views, procedures and functions, data conversion and migration programs. Support business customers and others in acceptance testing. Includes identifying database model changes in higher environments (Production and Stage), and making those changes in the lower environments (Test and Development)
Evaluating exit criteria and reporting, and test closure: asses test execution against the objectives defined in the test plan. Specific tasks and deliverables are defined at the team or project level
Identify the necessary test data to support test conditions and test cases as they are defined. Includes data to force error and boundary conditions. Analyze input data, including electronic files, message traffic and variations of user input
Provide expected test results, and/or repeatable methods of generating expected test results, based on currently existing data. Includes preparing database queries and guides for testers to use
Provide tools and methods to compare expected and actual test results. Includes bi-directional comparisons of database data with electronic files, message streams, and front-end displays
Provide high-quality, realistic, fit for purpose and referentially intact test data. Capture end-to-end business processes and the associated data for testing. Subset production data: extract subsets of production data from multiple sources to meet test cases and/or to supply input values for data-driven testing. Create realistic test data sets small enough to support rapid test runs but large enough to accurately reflect the variety of production data
Provide test data management. Script the setup of data in the application database to put it in a state that allows a specific set of test cases to be run against it. Script the creation of data files and message streams which require changing variables (usually date or timestamp related) in order to test applications which process them. Script database cleanups
Ensure compliance with client’s software testing standards and policies
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience as a quality assurance analyst or tester
Strong customer and business focus
Strong communication skills
Experience with user-centered design and usability testing
Experience with (Atlassian toolset) and Confluence
Understanding of Oracle database and able to write SQL queries
Experience with test driven or behavior driven development practices
Someone who is energetic and passionate about their work, extremely positive and solution driven
Someone who has worked on large teams, on projects that have different business owners
Experience using iterative development methodologies, specifically Agile Scrum
Scripting experience using applicable languages
Salesforce experience required
Experience using automated testing tools – SOAPUI, TOSCA, Scriptless Automation
Experience hands-on testing complex technical applications
Experience in communicating with Business Leadership and stakeholders
Company
Software Methods, Incorporated
Software Methods, Incorporated is a full-service, privately held consulting firm that specializes in providing technical and business specialists to assist clients with specific IT needs.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageLeadership Team
Steve Sherer
Co-Founder
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