Senior Systems Testing/QA Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Collaborates with product managers, product owners, and technical team to develop test strategies and test plans.
• Strong understanding of manual testing practices to support developing manual test scripts, test cases, and test scenarios.
• Assist with planning and creating test data as it relates to each test phase.
• Executes quality assurance and testing activities for various types of testing such as integration testing, functional testing, regression testing, unit testing, load testing, performance testing, and accessibility testing.
• Plans and organizes testing efforts in both front-end and back-end application components and environments.
• Communicates test results regularly through reports that summarize test completion and defects found.
• Helps with the implementation of the project technical testing strategy and methodology, including testing of integration points and interfaces and non-functional requirements such as fail-over, component response times, data integrity, and security.
• Evaluates test results against acceptance criteria to determine successful completion of the sprint increment.
• Defines and measures acceptance criteria for test cases.
• Records all defects and issues in Microsoft Azure DevOps, including detailed descriptions, screenshots, and steps to reproduce.
• Participates in elicitation and business requirement workshop sessions, sprint reviews, and walkthrough meetings.
• Works with cross-functional teams to ensure quality throughout the agile and iterative solution development lifecycle.
• Conducts post-release and post-implementation testing.

• Knowledge and experience in at least one programming language.
• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages.
• Knowledge and understanding of testing methods in an object-oriented environment.
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Candidateagement principles, concepts, policies, and practices.
• Experience planning and organizing testing efforts for both large and small systems.
• Experience coding automated test scripts to produce sets of automated test cases.
• Experience testing Commercial Off-the-Candidatelf Applications (COTS).

• Experience in planning, organizing, and implementing testing efforts at the specified experience level.
• Knowledge of structured methodologies for the development, design, implementation, and maintenance of applications.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools and data query tools to aid in the development of test cases.
• Knowledge and experience in the use of automated test tools and version control systems on one or more platforms.
• Experience executing functional tests, non-functional tests, and systems level integration tests.
• Experience supporting user acceptance testing and participating in UAT activities.
• Experience with quality assurance principles, practices, tools, and structured methodologies.
• Experience creating testing strategy documentation, test plans, test cases, and test data for various types and phases of testing, including technical and business functional validation.
• Experience in quality assurance and testing, including unit testing, integration testing, load testing, and performance testing.
• Knowledge and experience in all phases of the Systems Development Life Cycle.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Organizational, creativity, perseverance, verbal and written communication skills, and interpersonal skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.
• Knowledge of one or more automated testing tools.

• Working on large complex application development projects, preferably web-based applications.
• Working in an Agile distributed development environment with project teams collaborating virtually.
• Working in an enterprise cloud platform such as Azure or equivalent.
• Experience in the use of SQL or PLSQL tools to review and extract data from databases.
• Experience in developing end-to-end data migration ETL test plans, functional scenarios, integration workflows, web-based UI testing, regression, smoke, performance, load, and stress testing plans.
• Experience in developing AODA test plans.
• Experience using test automation tools within the DevOps field, developing strategies, and managing the testing life cycle.
• Experience with Azure DevOps tool or equivalent for developing complete testing scripts and approval processes.
• Demonstrated experience in business and systems analysis in a cloud environment.
• Experience in requirements gathering and development of user stories.
• Experience creating requirements artifacts in an Agile project environment using DevOps.
• Strong understanding of data modeling, data analysis, and report writing.
• Experience creating business analysis artifacts for modernization initiatives and workflows, including gap analysis for business efficiency improvements.
• Experience with Agile methodology.
• Proven record in developing complex test cases, hands-on test execution, and defect management.
• Strong experience with SQL or PLSQL tools for data extraction and analysis.
• Hands-on skills with AODA testing tools such as JAWS and NVDA.
• Familiarity with vulnerability testing tools and performance load testing tools.
• Hands-on skills with Azure DevOps or equivalent for creating and executing testing scripts.
• Hands-on experience coding, modifying, and executing automated test scripts using Katalon Studio or equivalent.
• Hands-on skills with Java-based UI testing and backend testing.
• Demonstrated experience in defect management processes, using defect management tools, and reporting defect status.
• Experience in identifying, tracing, isolating, and replicating problems and conducting root cause analysis.
• Experience documenting, tracking, and escalating issues appropriately using DevOps or equivalent tools.
• Experience with Agile Scrum methodology.
• Experience with Agile sprint management, defect tracking, and testing life cycle management using Azure DevOps or equivalent.
• Experience troubleshooting and investigating issues by prioritizing problems, isolating them, and conducting root cause analysis.
• Demonstrated analytical and communication skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail-oriented, hardworking, team player able to work under pressure.
• Strong collaboration and negotiation skills.
• Good research skills and ability to learn quickly.