VMSI (Veterans Management Services, Inc.) · 2 hours ago
Sr. Quality Analyst
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Responsibilities
Works closely with development teams to evaluate the application requirements and synthesize plans, strategies, and scenarios for system testing.
Assists in the development and implementation of QA testing strategy and design for large projects, complex, and/or enterprise-wide IT projects.
Works with the Quality Assurance Manager and application development teams to establish plans, standards, and procedures that will add value to and satisfy the constraints of the project.
Ensures adequate product testing prior to implementation.
Provides technical expertise to the team and oversight and guidance to other QA team members.
Defines and tracks quality assurance metrics such as defect densities and open defect counts.
Provides training and guidance to project teams with regard to QA processes and procedures within a project.
Educates business users on business requirements and user acceptance testing protocols.
Conducts user acceptance testing by working very closely with the user acceptance testers.
Prepares and delivers presentations on various aspects of IT QA to other departments of IT and as well as WSSC Water business users.
Facilitates regular Patching events for Windows and Linux and other platforms as assigned.
Develops, maintains, and provides status reports on project progress metrics.
Evaluates automated testing tools and in-house processes with a constant view toward refinement and improvement.
Follows projects/changes post go-live to ensure the production performance is consistent with the tested solution.
Ensures standards are being followed for testing, bench marking, and change management.
Works with test automation or possess the ability to come up to speed learning UFT automation.
Qualification
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Required
Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university majoring in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field.
At least seven 7 years of professional job-related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or five 5 years with a Master’s degree.
Advanced knowledge of testing strategy and design, and quality assurance methods and procedures.
Advanced working knowledge of system integration testing, Automation testing, Infrastructure patching, performance testing, white box, black box and UAT testing.
In-depth knowledge of the full life cycle SDLC process and user methodologies.
Diverse knowledge of programming languages, including Web Focus, .NET, JAVA/J2EE, UNIX and SQL programming languages.
Knowledge of designing and building test automation processes.
Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
Proficiency in Microsoft and other project management tools.
Familiarity with relational databases, such as Oracle, SQL Server.
Ability to test complex, distributed enterprise systems as well as web applications.
Ability to assess software requirements quality including traceability.
Ability to succinctly document inconsistencies and defects along with clear descriptions of how detected and/or steps needed to recreate and ability to make the appropriate recommendations.
Ability to meet scope, budget and tight implementation schedules.
Ability to understand business processes and formulate/execute a testing strategy in support of that process.
Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships at all levels of the organization.
Ability to lead large scale testing efforts with minimum supervision.
Preferred
Public Utility experience preferred.
Experience with Laboratory information management systems.
Experience with UC4 batch processing tool.
Experience with Customer 2 Meter C2M / Workforce management systems.
Experience with ALM, UFT and LoadRunner preferred.
Benefits
Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits.
17 days of Paid Time Off (to start!) + 11 Paid Holidays.
Health insurance plans include medical, vision, and dental.
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account
Pet Insurance
401K
Tuition reimbursement and MORE!
Company
VMSI (Veterans Management Services, Inc.)
VMSI (Veterans Management Services, Inc.) is a management consulting firm based in Virginia.