Quality Assurance Consultant V

Quality Assurance Consultant V

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated "Quality Assurance Consultant V" for an opportunity in US - Jersey City, NJ 07302

Position Title: Quality Assurance Consultant V

Location: Jersey City, NJ 07302

Job Posting Expected Start Date: 10/01/2025

(Please note this is the target date and is subject to change. BCforward will send official notice ahead of a confirmed start date.

Expected Duration: 15 Months with possibility of extension

Job Type: 40 hours work week

Pay Rate: $50.00/hr - $52.00/hr on W2

Job Description

He/She will be working as Business Analyst to capture the User Requirement, create business requirement document, creating Epics and write user stories with clear understanding on acceptance criteria, track end to end deliveries with different Teams and report status on yearly milestones. This role will also involve in QA/testing for those requirements , finalize test scenarios and track and coordinate user acceptance testing.
Connect with Business Stakeholders for use requirements, create BRD and review with users to sign off
Track Requirement in JIRA as Epics and Features and create interim milestones for teams.
Write detailed story as per users discussion and clear acceptance criteria using Gherkin format.
Work with Dev team and validate new features or existing functionality and work with users to provide sign off for release.
Help team to get estimates and work with Dev team to translate the requirement and manage dependencies across teams
Clearly communicate updates/risks to stakeholders and agree on next steps forward.
Coordinate User Acceptance and downstream testing discussion for each release.
Manage JIRA Portfolio and Epics to track user requirements and Deliverables and reporting to management.
Create reports to reflect progress on project deliverable and assess risk and delays.
Work with Scrum teams to make sure they are on right track by doing sprint review and demos.
Detailed analysis of feature and data to arrive to conclusion and next steps. Supported developer in debugging functional issues.
Identify testcases which can be automated and work with automation team and add to automation backlog.
Work with Dev team and validate new features or existing functionality and work with users to provide sign off for release.
Own Go /No Go for releases and create reports to reflect progress on testing deliverables
Experience
7 -10 years

Required Skills
* 8-12 years of experience as BA/QA in Finance Domain.
* Strong analytics skill, good interpersonal, facilitation relationship management skills
* Strong oral and written communication, able to narrate story in concise can clear way to stakeholders.
* Good understanding of SQL Query and proficient in excel functions (pivot, vlookup etc)
* Proficiency in other MS work, power point, visio with all excel functions required for analysis and report creation.
* Experience in handle multiple priorities simultaneously.
* Understand business needs and translate those into technical requirements based on agreed solution design.
* Strong Agile/Scrum experience. Experience working with agile teams. Experience with Agile tools and metrics.
* Expert in creating Business Requirements Document and Visio for high level designs.
* Ability to resolve conflict between team members and take a discussion to conclusion or next steps.
* Ability to breakdown the Epic size requirements into deliverables for sprints into Product backlog.
* Understanding of different phases of Testing Functional/ Regression/ Integration) and tools.
* Experience working with end Users/Business partners and writing stories.
* Experience working with backend Tables and Business Rules/Logic.
* Experience with Requirement/Defect management Tools (Ex JIRA).
* Strong prioritization, negotiation, and problem resolution skills.
* Ability to work across business groups and regions and in a team environment.
* Strong presentation skills and able to tailor communication to suit the audience.
* QA experience in framing business scenarios, writing and executing testcases and tracking defects in jira.
* Should understand requirement traceability to track requirements vs test cases.
* Good listener: Able to facilitate and follow discussion with multiple stakeholders and comfortable with turning ambiguity into a defined problem

Desired Qualifications
Six sigma certification
Global Markets experience

Benefits:

BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:

Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 240948 when responding to this ad.