QA Analyst

Responsibilities: Technical • Review user stories, technical specifications, user documentation, help files, and other documentation to assure quality of the products and tests to be developed; i.e., perform manual functional testing at times. • Use risk-driven techniques to develop, maintain, and execute automated test suites for our clinical science development and various other software products; i.e. perform automated dynamic testing. • Work with the development team to capture and reuse automated Unit Test Cases, Test Stubs, and other Development test objects for continuous build integration. • Work closely with the DevOps Engineers to create and maintain automated build verifications. • Ensure proper version control and configuration management of all test objects developed and test environments used. Results Tracking and Reporting • Research and document bug reports following agreed-upon processes immediately upon discovery of a quality problem. • Update test execution status following agreed-upon processes as part of automated metrics. • Trace test cases and results back to specific quality risks. • Assist in the creation of test project status reports and metrics (e.g., Test Dashboard). Management Support • Provide accurate and precise estimates for assigned task duration, along with confidence levels and foreseeable dependencies for automated testing. • Prepare test plans and schedules. • Provide technical guidance to developers and other test engineers. Attitudes and Initiative • Focus on the important testing and project priorities as agreed-upon. • Show initiative in setting and meeting goals within an environment of managed change. • Understand the role of test automation within the software development lifecycle for Agile and DevOps development methodologies, business-related project constraints, and effective test advocacy for the best possible customer experience of product quality. Requirements • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience. • 3+ years of experience developing enterprise software systems (developer focus) • 5+ years of experience in QA automation development and scripting. • 5+ years of experience in all aspects of functional testing across a broad set of technologies, including cloud technology, container based microservices for sub-UI testing, RESTful service testing, thin-client testing (html/Angular), database testing, virtual service stub testing, and more. • 5+ years of experience in developing sub-UI and UI based scripts with tools like Selenium, RIT, Visual Studio, UFT, custom code, and more. • Deep knowledge of user story to test case translation with methods like Gherkin/Cucumber or equivalent. • Strong understanding of object-oriented programming. • Experience with testing infrastructure on AWS platform including queue-based Java services. • Ability to use AWS services for fault detection and resolution. • Experience with performance analysis and benchmarking via AWS CloudWatch. • Experience with cross browser testing. • Experience in scripting technologies for Test Data Management • Expert knowledge with Test Data Management tools and methods. • Expert knowledge in Test Plan and Test Case development for compliance or validated software systems. • The ability to quickly grasp and distill highly complex user design issues into clean, understandable solutions. • Candidate must flourish in a fast paced, iterative, deadline driven environment. • Strong communication and organizational skills are critical to success among this company of talented individuals. • Familiar with common test automation tools including but not limited to: • Selenium • HP: Load Runner, Quality Center • Visual Studio Team Foundation Server: Performance Testing Automation, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) • IBM: Quality Manager, service virtualization • CA: service virtualization • Maven (build management) • Jenkins (continuous integration services) • SOAP UI • Database management studios for DB2, Oracle, or SQL Server • Git (code repository) • Others • Familiar with the following syntax as far as it is needed for assisting test automation tasks: • Java, C#, JavaScript, Python and Perl