QA Analyst (Local to Bethesda, MD) Only on W2

Hi,

Greetings from Skysoft.!!

Please find the below mentioned requirement and let me know if you are interested and available.

Job Title:: QA Analyst
Location : Bethesda, MD (Hybrid 2-days office)

Duration: Full Time

Job Description:

This person is responsible for planning, managing, maintaining, coordinating and executing the test scripts for complex, multi-tier applications using manual testing and automated test suites to support overall application quality.

Responsibilities:

• Participate in all steps of the ongoing Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) including but not limited to; requirements analysis; test planning; writing, reviewing, and executing test cases; and bug logging, tracking and closing.
• Review project documentation for all assigned projects to ensure project requirements are clearly defined.
• Create test plan documents and write test procedures based on requirements.
• Implement test plans within current guidelines by analyzing project requirement documents.
• Coordinate with requirements team to define test cases and maintain traceability.
• Work with applications designed / developed with Business Process Management (BPM), Java and Web Services.
• Design, develop, test, maintain, and execute reusable test automation and load testing scripts across different test environments.
• Execute test cases manually (if needed) based on business requirements.
• Apply appropriate automation technologies to meet QA testing goals using a minimum set of code / scripts for web-based applications and database infrastructures (web-based, UNIX and Windows based platforms).
• Coordinate integration testing activities across all supported applications.
• Report defects and escalate issues as needed.
• Work closely with software development team to reproduce and debug issues.
• Demonstrate ownership and accountability through self-directed task management.

Required Skills/Experience:

• Motivated Team player, with very strong analytical, diagnostic and debugging skills.
  Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  Minimum 4+ years of hands-on experience with testing/quality assurance.
  Excellent problem-solving abilities and critical thinking skills.
  Hands-on experience with test automation tools (e.g. Apache JMeter, Cucumber, Selenium, Jenkins) is desired.
  Experience with UNIX, databases (e.g. Oracle, SQL Server), JavaScript and XML are highly desirable.
  Understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and experience working in agile / iterative SDLC environments
  Ability to excel in team-oriented, fast-paced environment.
  Able to work independently.
  Adheres to development standards, software development lifecycle processes.
  Constantly seeks ways to improve processes for increased agility and quality
  Experience writing basic SQL queries to obtain and compare results is desired.
  Experience using JIRA