Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with the Scrum Master, Product Owner, developers, business analysts and other project team members to assist in carrying out the software quality responsibilities of the Scrum team
• Create comprehensive test plans with well defined, reusable test cases from business requirements and functional specifications documents
• Execute manual and automated functional, integration, regression, and performance tests
• Maintain automated and manual test script libraries for functional, integration, regression, and performance testing
• Document software defects in the issue tracking system and proactively communicate issues with developers and other project team members
• Provide testing leadership by identifying opportunities for improvement in the Scrum team's QA methodology
• Adhere to a testing schedule to ensure efficient and effective product delivery
• Actively participate in the Agile software development process by attending all daily standups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives
• Participate in group testing activities as needed
• Guide and mentor junior staff in proper creation and planning of test processes

Requirements

• Master's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study plus 3 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Analyst or related experience
• Or Bachelor's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study plus 5 years of experience as Software Quality Assurance Analyst or related experience
• Demonstrated experience using test cases, scripts, and automated test tools for verifying requirements on multitier applications
• Ability to translate business requirements into comprehensive functional and technical test plans
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Expertise in creating and running Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server structured query language queries
• Expertise in creating test cases using API level programming techniques
• Experience with project management software to track features and develop, store, and execute test cases

Qualifications

• Master's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study
• Bachelor's degree or foreign education equivalent in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or other technical course of study