Sr Analyst, IT QA

Sr Analyst, IT QA

Location: Whippany, New Jersey, 07891-Remote-(Preferred-(Local preferred who can commute to Whippany, NJ 2/3 days per week))

Duration: 6 Months Contract with possible to convert

Description:

Duties:

The Senior Analyst, IT QA is accountable to ensure product quality for enterprise applications. The role works with various groups and departments within the organization to enforce quality standards throughout the Systems Development Lifecycle. Including leading test execution, test strategy definition, ensuring requirements meet quality standards and performing quality assurance (QA) and validation testing.

What you will do:

• Define test strategy and test plans to ensure quality delivery including functional testing, regression testing, performance testing and negative testing.
• Lead other QA Analysts for quality assurance efforts for major strategic systems development efforts
• Actively drive quality improvements within agile development teams to ensure requirements are comprehensive and testable and delivery process is optimized for quality outcomes.
• Support risk assessment and risk discovery for products
• Execute testing as needed
• Identify and implement opportunities for delivery efficiency including test automation.

Skills:

• Uses experience with MS Visual Studio, .Net applications, Java, JavaScript, SQL Server, ETL
• In-depth understanding of applications testing with emphasis on web-based and client server applications, APIs, SSIS packages
• 5+ years in quality assurance or systems development role
• Ability to view a large picture of multiple projects as well as critical points of each application
• Process oriented, detailed person with solid organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Creative troubleshooter with strong problem-solving skills

Education:

• BS/BA in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field and 3 years of experience in a job as a Programmer Analyst or in a related occupation

Required Skills:

Leadership Role.
60% Analyst/40% Application Developer or 70:30.
Pharma or insurance domain or PBM experience preferred but not a must.
Team combiantion of Onshore and offshore resources and take leadership of offshore resources.
Handled entire Delivery cycle.
Dealing with BA, Application Developers
Not limited to Test Plan but create and execute Automated Test Script
CI/CD pipelines

Experience with AWS Nova is preffered not a deal breaker. But someone with Selenium, Jmeter should be fine.

Environment:
Cloud: AWS Cloud
Programming Language: .Net and some Java, Python and Ruby on Rails.
RDBMS: SQL Server

Skills:

Required

VISUAL TEST AUTOMATION

QUALITY ASSURANCE

SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT

FUNCTIONAL TESTING

REGRESSION TESTING

Additional

ETL

PERFORMANCE TESTING

NEGATIVE TESTING

TEST AUTOMATION

MS VISUAL STUDIO

.NET APPLICATIONS

JAVA

JAVASCRIPT

SQL SERVER

APPLICATIONS TESTING

WEB-BASED APPLICATIONS

CLIENT SERVER APPLICATIONS

APIS

SSIS PACKAGES

ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS

VERBAL COMMUNICATION

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

PROBLEM SOLVING

TROUBLESHOOTING

Minimum Degree Required:

Bachelor's Degree