Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst (Hybrid) - Location: Denver, CO - 100% Only Locals (CO) With Valid DL Copy

Role: Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst (Hybrid)

Location: Denver, Co

Job Type: Contract

The Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst s role is to develop and establish quality assurance standards and measures. Working within project teams, the QA Analyst will ensure quality testing of all in-house or commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) products. The QA Analyst will apply end-to-end testing practices including writing test cases and scenarios that ensure the delivery of quality software. They will also determine usage of and potentially create automated testing structures.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products, and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycles.
• Ensure testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end-user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues.
• Analyze documentation of any new application under development or consideration to determine its intended functionality and technical architecture.
• Create test plans by translating business and functional requirements into test cases.
• Execute test cases to ensure internally developed products, COTS solutions, or systems meet approved requirements.
• Perform or assist in the testing and installation of both in-house and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and applications into environments as required.
• Collaborate with software and systems personnel in application testing, such as system, regression, and load testing.
• Make recommendations on test cases that are candidates for automation.
• Use appropriate testing tools to automate integration and user interface tests.
• Analyze formal test results to discover and resolve defects, bugs, errors, deployment/configuration issues, and interoperability flaws.
• Make recommendations for improvement of applications and/or systems.
• Review and analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of existing applications and systems and develop testing strategies for improving or leveraging these systems.
• Responsible for defect reporting and provide input regarding release decisions.
• Advise in the evaluation and solution of highly technical and complex testing functions, features, problems, and bugs.
• May peer review testing efforts of other QA Analysts to provide feedback and mentoring.
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management.
• Work with software engineers to ensure QA standards are adhered to, including unit testing that promotes quality coding standards.
• Assist in the development of change control processes, practices, and guidelines for new and existing technologies.
• Provide advanced Tier III support to customers.
• Contribute to IT Service Management (ITSM) systems by documenting and sharing knowledge to improve customer service.
• Attend meetings and training as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor's degree and three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience.

OR

• Three years of relevant quality assurance/automated testing experience.

Additional work experience in quality assurance, automated testing, business analysis, software engineering, or other related fields may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for the required formal education.