Job#: 3027333 Job Description: Essential Functions - Validate business and technical requirements by collaborating with business analysts to ask clarifying questions and identify ambiguities, gaps, or inconsistencies early, ensuring specifications align with user expectations.
- Plan, estimate, and prioritize test activities for upcoming sprints and releases.
- Design and execute comprehensive test cases covering functional, regression, integration, and endtoend scenarios, ensuring test coverage remains current and complete.
- Track and manage defects using project management tools, actively participating in triage discussions to determine severity, priority, and resolution paths.
- Coordinate closely with vendor teams and internal stakeholders, participate in project meetings, and support the project QA lead in executing testing activities to ensure project commitments are met.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying process gaps, recommending enhancements, and refining QA standards to ensure quality is embedded throughout the SDLC.
- Provide guidance, training, and mentorship to new team members and junior QA engineers. Create training videos, manuals, and wiki pages.
- Create comprehensive status reports for large testing initiatives, outlining current test execution status, key defects, and any action items that project participants need to address.
- Ensure compliance with organizational, regulatory, and security standards throughout all testing activities.
- Support User Acceptance Testing by assisting UAT testers, clarifying expected behaviors, and validating fixes or enhancements.
- Conduct root cause analysis for issues identified in production or UAT, collaborating with crossfunctional teams to prevent recurrence.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required Required Technical Skills
- Expert background in performing functional, regression, integration, and endtoend testing.
- Solid experience creating and maintaining test cases in structured test case management tools that provide centralized storage, version control, execution tracking, and traceability.
- Proficiency using blackbox test design techniques such as equivalence partitioning, boundary value analysis, decision table testing, and state transition testing.
- Strong understanding and handson experience with Agile Scrum practices, including sprint planning, grooming, retrospectives, sprint closing, etc.
- Proficiency in writing SQL queries for data validation, test setup, and troubleshooting, including joining and aggregating data from multiple tables.
- Experience performing API testing using tools such as Postman or equivalent solutions.
- Participation in creating highlevel test documentation for a project or department, such as test plans, strategies, or organizational policies, even when not the primary contributor.
- Ability to analyze logs, system outputs, and integration points to identify root causes of defects.
Preferred Technical Skills
- Understanding of and prior experience with combinatorial test case generation techniques and tools.
- Handson experience with TestRail or comparable test case management platforms.
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server for work item tracking, test planning, and release coordination.
- Background in modernizing legacy consolebased systems, including migration to modern architectures or platforms.
- Prior exposure to EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) workflows and Salesforce environments.
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.
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