Quality Assurance Consultant III

Job#: 3020394

Job Description:

Job Title: Quality Assurance Consultant III

Duration: 10 months

Location: Chicago IL (onsite)

Payrate: $55.00 - 60.42/hr

Description:

This role is a potential contract to hire and will require resources that do not require sponsorship now or in the future.

This specific role is required to be fulfilled onsite 5 days a week.

This role is responsible for testing and delivering complex software to accomplish business outcomes. These individuals are subject matter experts on testing practices ensuring that software is tested to meet functional, nonfunctional, and compliance requirements. They help condition and generate test data, build and execute both manual and automated test suites, record and communicate the test results, and assist with triaging defects. They also ensure regression test suites are maintained and well designed.

Primary Level of Engagement: Works as a team member under supervision from a more senior domain expert.

Primary Interactions: Product Owner, Scrum Master, Development Team, Feature Lead, Architect and Test Community of Practice.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop detailed, comprehensive and well-structured test cases based on functional, nonfunctional, and compliance requirements.

Lead test planning, usually at a team level. When part of a Scrum team, ensure stories are well refined and contain clear acceptance criteria.

Ensure inscope and outofscope items are clearly identified during test planning.

Implement the test framework for the team.

Lead test case reviews and work with subject matter experts and stakeholders to ensure test coverage.

Identify automation opportunities and develop test automation for applicable test types.

Help condition and generate test data and ensure data compliance requirements are met on all levels of test environments. Assist in identifying and managing sensitive test data.

Execute test cases, including manual and automated tests, and record test results.

Report issues and defects along with the appropriate background information for review.

Participate in triaging reported issues/defects and assist with resolving or escalating them as necessary.

Create and manage traceability. Trace tests forwards/backwards through the development lifecycle and back to requirements.

Use testing tools and follow processes to complete testing on a given test environment and assist with fulfillment of necessary steps required to promote code base to higher level environments.

Maintain and catalog test suites across test types (Smoke, Integration, Regression, etc.)

Required Skills:

Knowledge and familiarity with qTest, Cypress, Cucumber, Selenium, JUnit, Jira, Toad (or any other similar database viewer)

Ability to design and develop manual and automated test plans within an application

Basic knowledge of deployment automation and continuous delivery practices

Demonstrates working knowledge of Agile frameworks and has experience working on a Scrum based Agile team.

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico. Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.