IO Datasphere, Inc. has been providing project management, software development and IT staff augmentation services to our clients in the Midwest and throughout the U.S. since 1996. We are an approved vendor on contract to provide software development and IT staff augmentation services for the States of Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, and Wisconsin. We also provide these services to businesses, as well as local and county governments, in the Midwest and nationwide.

Our client is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst. This position requires strong hands-on testing experience to support multi-year, multi-phase project with testing throughout the project lifecycle in close collaboration with the project team. The Quality Assurance Analyst will conduct quality assurance (QA) testing as releases are moved to testing environments to ensure application will perform according to user requirements. The position will also collaborate with the project team to identify and implement appropriate improvements and ensures code adheres to organizational standards. The Quality Assurance Analyst should have strong, demonstrated hands-on understanding of quality assurance testing concepts, practices, and procedures. A high degree of professionalism and high-quality customer service are expected.

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Tasks

• Create, maintain, and update testing documentation to ensure all scenarios and requirements are covered in the testing process.
• Create test scenarios, test plans, test reports, and track the life cycle of defects.
• Ensure developed solutions perform according to documented user requirements.
• Be familiar with industry standard automation testing suites, including regression testing.
• Demonstrate knowledge and prior use of testing tools and how they interact with applications used for management of bugs, issues, testing, design and development.
• Remain adaptable and flexible when working with multiple clients with varying degrees of knowledge and ability/availability to participate.
• Identify and propose improvements, corrections, or mitigation strategies for risks and opportunities, independently or collaboratively with the team.
• Write SQL queries on SQL Server in order to verify data integrity, validate data manipulation operations, and troubleshoot issues.
• Bring experience with the full software development lifecycle and related project management activities.
• Develops technical procedures, methodologies, metrics, checklists, and standards.
• Identifies and applies best practices.
• Evaluates software development procedures used to verify that programs function according to user requirements and conform to establishment guidelines.
• Writes, revises, and verifies quality standards for program design and product evaluation to attain quality of software economically and efficiently.
• Evaluates program output and reports for accuracy, and policies and procedures for quality.
• Evaluates networks to determine efficiencies and the quality of security systems, etc.
• Reviews new or modified programs, including documentation and specifications, to determine if program will perform according to user request and conform to guidelines.
• Recommends program improvements or corrections to programmers.
• Identifies differences between establishment standards and user applications and suggests modifications to conform to standards.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Ability to work independently while taking direction from project leads.
• Ability to take initiative in learning business processes and existing application functionality.
• Exceptional attention to detail.
• Collaborative mindset
• Commitment to teamwork
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Wide degree of creativity and latitude
• Ability to rely on extensive experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals
• Ability to independently perform a variety of tasks
• Strong, holistic knowledge of the overall quality assurance/testing process

NOTE: Candidate must be a WI resident or willing to relocate to Wi at their own expense prior to the starting role. 90%-100% remote but can require staff to come on-site as necessary with sufficient notice.

Location: 90% to 100% remote (on-site as necessary/required with sufficient notice)

Contract: 1 year

Skills Required:

• 10 years - Quality assurance testing experience
• 10 years - Experience writing SQL queries
• 8+ years - Demonstrated experience in developing test cases and plans to ensure applications function according to user requirements.
• 8+ years - Experience working on an application development team within a complex organization to conduct high-quality testing following industry standard techniques
• 9 years - Experience / familiarity with test-driven design principles and regression testing
• 10 years - Experience / knowledge of system development lifecycle and key deliverables
• 10 years - Experience developing and implementing quality assurance process and procedures
• 8 years - Experience in technical writing and documentation
• 8 years - Experience with TFS and/or GitHub
• 5 years - Experience with Jira
• 8 years - Post-production application support experience
• Experience / familiarity with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.

***Rate depends on experience

*** Local candidates preferred, not mandatory

*** Candidates authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. We can accept H1b, , TN, and other valid work visas for IT. However, we cannot accept OPT or CPT visas at this time.

*** Companies submitting candidates should only submit direct W2 employees for this position.

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