Job Type: Contract
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Seattle, WA
Experience: 6–8 Years
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced PLM QA Analyst with strong knowledge of Product Lifecycle Management, specification management, formulation processes, and quality assurance within the Food & Beverage industry.
The ideal candidate will have experience with SpecRight or similar PLM/specification platforms and will be responsible for testing and validating product, ingredient, formulation, packaging, nutritional, and regulatory data.
Primary Skills
- PLM
- SpecRight
- Specification Management
- Functional Testing
- Regression Testing
- Integration Testing
- SIT / UAT
- Product Data Validation
- Formulation & Ingredient Management
- Defect Management
Secondary Skills
- Trace One
- Aptean PLM
- Lascom
- Selerant DevEX
- Centric PLM
- Genesis Nutrition
- Food & Beverage Manufacturing
- Product Development Lifecycle
- Product Specifications
- Ingredient Management
- Formulation Data
- Packaging Attributes
- Nutritional Information
- Labelling
- Regulatory Compliance
- Test Case Development
- Test Script Development
- Test Evidence
- Production Validation
- SAP
- Stakeholder Management
- Business Analysis
- Quality Assurance
Key Responsibilities
- Analyze business requirements related to PLM, specification management, formulation management, and Food & Beverage product development.
- Create and execute functional, regression, integration, SIT, and UAT test scenarios.
- Validate product specifications, ingredient data, formulation information, packaging attributes, nutritional information, and regulatory data.
- Develop and maintain test cases, test scripts, test scenarios, and test evidence.
- Perform end-to-end testing across PLM and related applications.
- Identify, document, track, and validate defects through resolution.
- Perform regression testing following application fixes and enhancements.
- Collaborate with business users, developers, product teams, and technical stakeholders.
- Support SIT, UAT, production validation, and post-release testing.
- Validate data accuracy and consistency across product, ingredient, formulation, packaging, and nutritional datasets.
- Participate in defect triage and communicate testing progress, risks, and issues.
- Ensure applications align with Food & Beverage business processes and regulatory requirements.
- Maintain QA documentation and testing evidence.
- Identify opportunities to improve testing coverage, processes, and application quality.
Required Qualifications
- 6–8 years of relevant QA/testing experience.
- Strong experience with PLM and specification management applications.
- Experience in the Food & Beverage manufacturing or product development domain.
- Hands-on experience with functional, regression, integration, SIT, and UAT testing.
- Strong understanding of product specifications, formulations, ingredients, packaging, labelling, and nutritional data.
- Experience validating regulatory and compliance-related product information.
- Experience creating and executing test cases, test scripts, and test scenarios.
- Strong defect management and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong stakeholder collaboration experience.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants with disabilities and for sincerely held religious beliefs, as required by applicable law. Applicants who require a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process may request assistance.
Employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of job-related pre-employment screening, which may include background and reference checks and, where permitted by applicable law and applicable to the position, drug testing. All such screening will be conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
