Senior QA Analyst(USC)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description Summary of Responsibilities

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Manage and support monthly patch testing related to Infrastructure, RDBMS, Application systems and any other systems. Cross-work across different teams in the pipeline in managing patching process. Support Infrastructure-related projects. Develop and support application testing strategies, create test plans and test scripts. Lead and coordinate quality assurance and testing activities in support of ERCOT projects with business testers. Perform system, regression, and functional testing. Create testing timelines for projects, including milestones, and provide daily updates to the project team of progress against timeline. Create reports and dashboards on defect metrics and testing progress using test management tool (Qtest). Develop automation framework in support of ERCOT projects.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform monthly coordination of various patching.
• Analyze and understand solution requirements, architecture, technical designs and processes to define necessary scope of automated testing.
• Coordinate functional, technical and vendor resources in testing efforts to ensure ERCOT testing process and procedure are followed.
• Develop test strategy, test plan and communicate strategy to relevant disciplines/stakeholders clearly and appropriately.
• Develop and modify test scenarios and test scripts.
• Perform manual and automated system, regression and functional testing.
• Review test scripts to ensure appropriate tests are created and executed correctly to verify requirements.
• Manage testing effort and defects through defect lifecycle.
• Create testing progress reports, dashboards and test coverage using test management tool Qtest.
• Develop and promote quality testing practices.
• Ensure that testing is completed to agreed standards and that business and operational acceptance criteria are met.
• Liaise with other management and IT disciplines to ensure project testing objectives are met.
• Report to management on testing and quality requirements/activities to identify any deviations from plan and to carry out any necessary corrective action.
• Supports test data requests.
• Perform tasks assigned by the supervisor and manager.
• Participate in product design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, product designs, schedules or potential problems that may impact the quality of automation regression suite or overall product features.
• Develop automation scripts assigned by the supervisor/manager as required by projects.

Top 3 Traits/Characteristics

• Good communication skills; able to communicate effectively, report crucial issues, provide status in meetings.
• Able to work independently without much KT and coaching, while being a good team player.
• Accepts any type of work given and demonstrates resiliency under stressful circumstances and deadlines without sacrificing performance or quality.

Required Technical Skills

• Strong understanding of Infrastructure.
• Understand automation and API testing, Selenium, TOSCA, Ansible, QTest and JIRA.
• Experience with TOSCA and Selenium test automation tools.
• Experience with general software development life cycle practices.
• Oracle RDBMS, including competency with PL/SQL and familiarity with relational database analysis, design, and SQL tuning.
• Experience with general Software Quality Assurance/Quality Control testing techniques, standards, practices, and related technologies.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Sciences, Information Systems or related field or eight years applicable experience is required.

Work Experience

• At least 2–3 years’ experience in running automation scripts using Tosca Test Suite.
• Experience in creating/running automation framework using Tosca Model Based framework.
• Experience in creating/running automation framework using Tosca API scan for testing Rest and SOAP APIs.
• Experience in mobile testing using Tosca with Sauce Labs in both iOS and Android applications using Xcode Simulator and emulator.
• Experience in creating different types of execution reports of Automation scripts through Tosca Reports.
• Minimum of 5 years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in Software system and application testing.
• 5+ years of experience with software Quality Assurance/Quality Control (QA/QC) practices, including common test design techniques.
• 3+ years of managing and coordinating system and application testing.
• Minimum of 2 years with Qtest.
• Demonstrable experience of creating quality assurance artifacts including test plans, test scripts, and test reporting.
• Experience using PL/SQL for data validation.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Superior computer skills including MS Windows and MS Office (Excel, Word, Access).
• Familiarity with web services and web applications (HTML5, CSS, jQuery).
• Experience working with GUI object recognition and customization.
• Ability to work well with a team.
• Familiarity with common source control systems and configuration management.
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies.
• Proven ability to deliver quality results in a busy and dynamic business-focused environment.
• Comfortable in both UNIX and Windows-based environments.