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Lead Quality Assurance Analyst (Remote)
Our client, a leading Pacific Northwest utility provider committed to public service and environmental preservation, is looking for a Lead Quality Assurance Analyst for their Portland, OR location. This full-time contract position will work within the Quality Assurance organization. The Lead Quality Assurance Analyst position supports large multi-year projects while also performing operations and maintenance key QA tasks, such as test script development and execution, defect tracking, test coordination, test environment verification, and data quality management.
This remote position is a one-year renewable contract that includes employee benefits! If this opportunity is well-aligned with your experience and goals, we would love to hear from you!
Key Responsibilities for Lead Quality Assurance Analyst:
- Help develop procedures, policies, and systems to support QA efforts, including testing automation strategies and solutions.
- Facilitate QA staff to establish and document standards for QA methodologies and tools.
- Assist in the implementation of QA program goals and objectives using the quality plan found in SLC documentation.
- Facilitate and promote quality assurance activities associated with agency projects as assigned.
- Provide staff with insight into quality activities and resource requirements.
- Promote consistent use of terminology across projects and departments within the company.
- Interface with all necessary project personnel including project management, QA support lead, business analysts, and technical developers to ensure compliance with the quality plan and testing methodology.
- Monitor program progress and provide reports on risks.
- Present findings verbally and in writing to clients, upper-level management, and sponsors.
- Identify risks as they are found and work with upper management to address issues.
- Certify readiness of product for user acceptance.
- Facilitate project from inception to conclusion.
- Serve as liaison between QA team and PMO group for QA technical and methodology standards.
- Verify that requirements are identified, clear, needed and testable.
- Create, coordinate, and execute manual and automated application tests.
- Assist in the design and writing of tests which will be used in system integration, functional, and acceptance testing.
- Assist with the development of programmatic test plans, cases, scripts, and related documentation for a complex, highly secure suite of internet and intranet applications.
- Attend project and requirement reviews and verification of test scripts.
- Interface with all necessary project personnel including Project Management, QA Lead, business analysts, and technical developers to verify compliance with the Quality Plan and Testing Methodology
- Review and recommend changes to Functional Requirements in the form of use cases and other testing documents.
- Facilitate portions of the project QA efforts to include performing manual functional QA testing and assisting other QA Testers.
- Review requirements with development staff to establish a common interpretation.
- Facilitate and coordinate creation of test requirements, plans, and manual test scripts by functional users and technical leads.
Requirements/Qualification for Lead Quality Assurance Analyst:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, information technology or a closely related technical field is preferred.
- 10 years of demonstrated QA experience is required with an applicable degree.
- 14 years of demonstrated QA experience is required without a degree or an applicable degree.
- 5 years of experience leading a Quality Assurance Team.
- Experience should involve test methodology design and implementation, along with hands-on experience writing test plans, test cases, test data and test database creation/sanitizing, problem tracking/resolution, coordinating test activities among multiple testers, and maintaining defect logs among other applied skills and knowledge.
- Experienced in a testing and defect management tool, such as TFS, to include the design of Releases, Requirement and Test hierarchies, and reports. Current standard tool is TFS 2015.
- Demonstrated experience using XML, Oracle or SQL for application integration, testing, and environmental compatibility.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of system development life cycle (SDLC) principles.
- Demonstrated experience in aligning QA strategy with software development activities and overall schedule while supporting the SDLC.
- Experience leading the QA effort for a vendor-supplied solution, either COTS, or vendor developed, on-site, or in the cloud.
- Proficient in executing the test and validation activities of a large, complex project.
- Advanced knowledge on the design and implementation of QA and testing methodologies in large, complex systems using various development methodologies.
- 2 years professional presentation skills communicating technical data to a non-technical audience.
**We are unable to accommodate corp. to corp. candidates**
About Motus Recruiting and Staffing, Inc: Founded in 2006, Motus is an award-winning recruiting and staffing firm in the Pacific Northwest, specializing in professional services and technology solutions. We are a group of people who not only recognize the importance of representation, but actively fight for diversity, equity, and inclusion in the recruitment process. Our goal is to educate organizations on the importance of DEI when hiring, promoting, and supporting diverse employees. We are calling organizations to demonstrate their commitment to DEI by being intentional about who they hire.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.
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