Senior Backend QA Testing Analyst

Role : Senior Backend QA Testing Analyst

Location: Columbus, OH

Duration: 12 Months

MOI : Telephonic & Skype

Primary Skills: SQL, Python, UI, API.

Need a Candidate with a Minimum of 12 Years of Experience. This is a 100% Onsite role on W2.

Job Description:

• Responsible for the planning, integration, testing, scripting, and execution of all testing to ensure proper coverage.
• Schedules and leads test deliverables review sessions as necessary.
• Work on multiple projects/systems as a project team member and are considered to be a subject matter expert for a single project/system.
• These projects are of moderate to high complexity within one or more development environments.
• Collaborate with the BSA and Development teams in the analysis and review of business objectives and requirements to ensure requirements are testable.
• Actively participate in the review of architectural and technical design specifications.
• Develop, document, and maintain the test data, data validation, and end-to-end testing flows.
• Conducts testing using manual and/or automated test processes and reports results.
• May run database queries to supply data validation within test scripts.
• Updates test cases based on approved change requests.
• Works with BSAs and Development teams on defect analysis and triage.
• Assigns defect severity and manages defects throughout the project
• Works with colleagues and project managers to meet established target dates and complete activities/deliverables under changing conditions.
• Creates test status reports per project guidelines.
• Creates test results and test summary deliverables to ensure production implementation readiness.
• Creates and facilitates review of the Test Strategy with the project team.
• Identifies any potential quality issues per defined processes and escalates potential quality issues immediately to management.
• Collects testing sign-off from all testing participants, including cross-impacted application teams.
• Ensures all aspects of testing, such as manual execution, regression, automation, and performance testing, are completed
• Collaborates with the Project Test Lead on estimating the test efforts.
• Collaborates with the project team to support UAT efforts as needed.
• Maintains the regression test bed to meet changing requirements.
• Participates in off-hour production releases as needed.
• Supports the project's warranty period as needed.
• Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgment and problem-solving.
• Provides mentorship to junior team members as needed.
• Understands and follows the project lifecycle methodology consistently.

Specific Requirements for these positions:

• Need to be able to create and have created test plans/test scripts.
• Be able to identify expected results (had conversations with developers/business/etc, wherever requirements came from), which may not be clear from the requirements.
• Moderate to Advanced SQL skills
• Focus on testing of data, not front-end or UI testing
• Maintain test data generator, preferably with knowledge of Python
• Experience in scripting or programming (Python is the preferred, Excel macros)
• Development Experience, preferably in Python
• Worked with financial data
• Experience with large data migrations
• Experience with API Testing
• Problem Solver, Curious Mindset to find problems, needs a higher-level thinker.
• Able to manage your own work.
• Ability to work with light supervision.
• Create your own test schedule.
• Plan and prioritize own work.
• Self-Starter, ability to come in and dig in with little/no documentation, ability to quickly grasp and understand concepts/systems/applications
• Highly collaborative and comfortable working in a team-oriented environment
• Attention to detail
• Collections background, Commercial loan or CC background (preferred, but not a deal breaker).